Ric Elias: 3 things I learned while my plane crashed

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Andrew Z. Cohen: The Meaning of Your Life Watch the TEDTalk that inspired this post. Ric Elias is a very lucky man. And it's not only because he survived a near-death experience when his plane (U.S. Airways Flight 1549) crashed into the Hudson River on January 15, 2009. It's because he allowed this experience to deeply and profoundly change his relationship to life. I only wish that more of us had this response to near-fatal brushes with our own mortality. 100 Websites You Should Know and Use (updated!) Entertainment Meet David Peterson, who developed Dothraki for Game of Thrones There are seven different words in Dothraki for striking another person with a sword. Among them: “hlizifikh,” a wild but powerful strike; “hrakkarikh,”a quick and accurate strike; and “gezrikh,” a fake-out or decoy strike.

June Cohen: What Can We Learn From Near-Death Choices TED and The Huffington Post are excited to bring you TEDWeekends, a curated weekend program that introduces a powerful "idea worth spreading" every Friday, anchored in an exceptional TEDTalk. This week's TEDTalk is accompanied by an original blog post, along with new op-eds, thoughts and responses from the HuffPost community. Watch the talk above, read the blog post and tell us your thoughts below. Become part of the conversation! Few of us come face-to-face with death in such a clear and present way as Ric Elias, who was on board Flight 1549 when it crash-landed on New York's Hudson River four years ago. Ric (the CEO of Red Ventures) and everyone on board, expected to die on impact.

Attracting Our Beloved We are very happy to feature the following excerpt from Robert Augustus Masters' new book, Transformation Through Intimacy: The Journey Toward Awakened Monogamy, now available on Amazon. Image by Vivi-Mari Carpelan [+view gallery] So many yearn to be in a genuinely intimate relationship—a relationship that consistently enlivens, deepens, and awakens—and wonder why they continue to find themselves alone or in relationships that don’t really work for them (but which they keep hoping will).

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The Evolution of Intimate Relationship Robert Augustus Masters shares the introduction to his new book,Transformation Through Intimacy: The Journey Toward Awakened Monogamy, now available for preorder on Amazon. Image by Mark Henson [+view gallery] Intimate relationship has over the last four or five decades evolved so far from its long-established ways—mutating in diverse directions—that its very nature and structuring, once a largely unquestioned given, is clearly up for some deep questioning and reformulating. Reformulating, revisioning, restructuring, reinventing—how we tend to look at intimate relationship is changing almost as rapidly as intimate relationship itself. June Cohen: What Can We Learn From Near-Death Choices TED and The Huffington Post are excited to bring you TEDWeekends, a curated weekend program that introduces a powerful "idea worth spreading" every Friday, anchored in an exceptional TEDTalk. This week's TEDTalk is accompanied by an original blog post, along with new op-eds, thoughts and responses from the HuffPost community. Watch the talk above, read the blog post and tell us your thoughts below. Become part of the conversation! Few of us come face-to-face with death in such a clear and present way as Ric Elias, who was on board Flight 1549 when it crash-landed on New York's Hudson River four years ago. Ric (the CEO of Red Ventures) and everyone on board, expected to die on impact.