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Meditation
March 21, 2022 0
Constantly Obsessing About Our Overall Life Situation is Futile — Try This Instead
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March 18, 2022 0
Liberation: A Helpful Concept for Understanding the Spiritual Path
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March 15, 2022 0
Rumi Has Hundreds of Beautiful Quotes — This is My Favorite - It’s about the voice inside.
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March 11, 2022 0
5 Pinch Myself Moments Working on “The West Wing” Television Show
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March 7, 2022 0
What Eckhart Tolle Says is the Only True Purpose of Our Lives
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March 4, 2022 4
This is My Least Spiritual Article to Date — But Also the Most Important - It’s about practice.
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March 1, 2022 0
My Computer Crashed, But I Didn’t: How Mindfulness Saved My Day
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February 25, 2022 2
How Teddy Roosevelt’s Darkest Period Propelled Him to the Presidency
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February 22, 2022 0
The Comparing Game: A Losing Proposition That’s All Pain, No Gain
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February 18, 2022 0
We Spend Our Lives Constantly Asking “What do I want?” It Doesn’t Work - I’ll show you a path that does.
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February 15, 2022 0
My Most Cherished Moment Working on “The West Wing” TV Show
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February 12, 2022 0
Gandhi’s Famous Quote About the Value of Meditation
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February 8, 2022 0
The Story of How Eckhart Tolle Manifested “The Power Of Now”
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February 3, 2022 0
The Lightbulb Moment That Sparked Mickey Singer’s 50 Year Spiritual Odyssey
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January 29, 2022 0
Ram Dass’s Guru Didn’t Teach Much: Just This Simple Philosophy
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January 23, 2022 0
Ram Dass’s Beautiful Quote About Imagining Yourself as a Flower
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January 20, 2022 0
My 4 Step Strategy for Changing Careers - I’ve done it twice.
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January 17, 2022 0
Eckhart Tolle Is My Favorite Spiritual Being. Mickey Singer Is My Favorite Teacher
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January 14, 2022 0
3 Joseph Campbell Quotes About Living Life
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January 10, 2022 0
Ramana Maharshi’s Simple Prescription for Spiritual Growth - Be still. Be.
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January 7, 2022 0
The Profound Spiritual Lesson Tennis Has Taught Me
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January 4, 2022 0
The Tao te Ching Passage That Shapes My Career Path- It’s about letting the mud clear.
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Meditation
January 1, 2022 0
My 2022 New Year’s Resolutions
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Meditation
December 28, 2021 2
My Journey to Meditation: The Before and After
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December 24, 2021 0
2 Words to Simplify Your Spiritual Journey And cut down on all the confusion and overwhelm.
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December 20, 2021 2
Nonattachment: The Big Kahuna of Spirituality — So Hard, but so Worth the Work
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December 16, 2021 0
Thomas Merton: If You Want to Help the World, Work on Yourself
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December 12, 2021 0
Simplify Your Life by Looking at Everything Through This One Lens
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December 7, 2021 0
A Tao Te Ching Passage That Illuminates the Spiritual Path
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December 2, 2021 0
The Question to Ask Yourself When a Stressful Situation Arises
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November 28, 2021 0
4 Ways to Beat the Holiday Blues
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November 24, 2021 0
An Eckhart Tolle Gem to Help You Navigate the Holidays
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November 20, 2021 2
How I Turned my Dog’s Eye Problem Into a Mindful Practice
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November 17, 2021 0
A Mindful Strategy for Dealing With Bad Moods
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November 14, 2021 0
How a Terrible Writing Session Led to a Spiritual Breakthrough
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November 10, 2021 0
To Try or Not to Try: That is the Question With Spiritual Work
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Meditation
November 6, 2021 2
The Simple Phrase Ram Dass’s Guru Spoke Again and Again
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Meditation
November 2, 2021 0
4 Dalai Lama Quotes to Inspire Your Insides
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October 30, 2021 0
Eckhart Tolle’s Advice About Dealing With Annoying Everyday Situations
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Meditation
October 26, 2021 2
2 of Shakespeare’s Greatest Plays are Cautionary Tales About Capitulating to Our Egos
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Meditation
October 23, 2021 2
Want to Spur Your Meditation Practice? Go Back to Kindergarten
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Meditation
October 20, 2021 0
Spiritual Work is Like Anything Else: Progress Comes Through Practice
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October 16, 2021 0
How My Recent Experience With The Blahs Can Help You With Yours
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Meditation
October 13, 2021 0
4 Rumi Sayings That Will Sing to Your Soul
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October 8, 2021 0
Read This Piece if You Want to Get Your Life on Track
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October 4, 2021 0
I Let Go of Some Egoic Baggage Last Week — the Result is All Good
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Meditation
September 30, 2021 2
Try Thich Nhat Hanh’s Plan for Spending a Mindful Day
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Meditation
September 27, 2021 0
3 Hunks of Egoic Baggage I Need to Let Go of
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September 24, 2021 0
3 Ideas for Bringing Paris to You - No surprise, there’s food involved.
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September 20, 2021 2
A Huge Spiritual Discovery I Made Last Week That Can Help You, Too
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Meditation
September 16, 2021 2
What My Friend’s Year in the Arctic Teaches Us About our Brains
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September 12, 2021 0
Mickey Singer’s Helpful Metaphor for Letting Go of Our Egos - It’s about letting go of the rocks.
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Meditation
September 7, 2021 0
Parents Over-Worrying About Their Kids: The Other Pandemic Raging Across the Land
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September 2, 2021 0
Why Hope Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up to be
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Meditation
August 28, 2021 0
A Two Word Tool to Fortify Your Meditation And Mindfulness Practices
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August 23, 2021 0
The One Spiritual Work I Recommend Over All Others
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August 20, 2021 0
An Analogy to Calm You When Your Ego Gets Triggered
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August 16, 2021 0
5 Lessons Everyone Can Learn From my Naturally Zen Mom
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August 14, 2021 0
Use this Ram Dass Idea to Help Heal Your Psyche - It’s about becoming nobody.
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August 11, 2021 0
What Getting Fired From “The West Wing” Taught Me About Meditation and the Brain
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August 8, 2021 0
Use This Eckhart Tolle Quote to Deepen Understanding of Your True Self
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August 4, 2021 0
A Technique That Helps Me Stay Centered When I’m Losing It
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Meditation
July 28, 2021 2
Want to Heal Your Mind? Treat It as You Would a Simple Skin Wound
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Meditation
July 24, 2021 2
The Meditation Elite Does a Bad Job of Communicating to Regular People
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July 20, 2021 0
My Cancer Scare: Where Spiritual Work Helped…and Where it Didn’t
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July 17, 2021 0
How Spiritual Work Has Calmed Me as I Face the Summer Travel Shit Show
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July 14, 2021 0
A Helpful Technique to Aid in Letting Go of Your Ego
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Meditation
July 10, 2021 2
A Simple Spiritual Exercise That Could Transform Your Life - A doable approach to letting go of our egos.
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July 7, 2021 0
What Eckhart Tolle’s 1977 Awakening Teaches Us About the Two Selves
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July 3, 2021 0
3 Things I Learned on Our Family Trip to France
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June 30, 2021 0
3 Things That Saved Me on My Weekend Alone With the Kids
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June 24, 2021 2
The Interplay of These 3 Spiritual Entities Explains Our Inner World - According to my favorite yogi, Mickey Singer
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June 20, 2021 0
Why All Celebrities Should Meditate
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June 16, 2021 0
Eckhart Tolle’s Powerful Teaching: Using Boredom to Propel Us Into Being
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June 13, 2021 0
Jerry Seinfeld’s Meditation Experience Should be a Wakeup Call to the Business World
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June 9, 2021 0
5 Ram Dass Sayings That Sum Up the Spiritual Path
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June 5, 2021 0
Two Ways That Golf Teaches us How to Thrive at Work
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Meditation
June 1, 2021 0
Follow This Life Path to Radically Reduce Your Stress and Anxiety
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May 28, 2021 0
Phil Mickelson Credits Meditation for Winning the PGA Championship
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May 25, 2021 0
Do Spiritual People Believe Thinking Is Bad?
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May 22, 2021 0
Letting Go of Our Grievances is All Upside, No Downside
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May 18, 2021 0
Denzel Washington’s Stirring Commencement Speech At Dillard University - And the one thing I would add.
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May 15, 2021 0
5 Yogananda Quotes That Inspire And Enlighten
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May 13, 2021 0
A Comforting Spiritual Metaphor to Consider, In Meditation And in Life: Going home
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May 9, 2021 0
Want To Strengthen Your Mindfulness? Start Cooking
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May 7, 2021 0
Eckhart Tolle Believes That Humans Are Evolving Toward a Higher Consciousness
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May 3, 2021 0
My Captain Obvious, Highly Effective Tip For Strengthening Your Mindfulness Practice
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April 29, 2021 0
3 Lessons I Learned Spending An Afternoon With President George H.W. Bush
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April 26, 2021 0
5 Compelling Quotes From Meher Baba, The Great Indian Sage
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April 22, 2021 0
4 Life Lessons We Can All Learn By Playing Sports
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April 20, 2021 0
A Practical Tip to Help Shed Emotional Baggage
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April 15, 2021 0
4 Life Lessons We Can All Learn From The French
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April 10, 2021 0
2 Ways Eckhart Tolle Teaches Us to Access the Present Moment
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April 7, 2021 0
Good News About Our Brains: We Can Physically Alter Them For The Better
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April 4, 2021 0
For All of You Searching For Your Purpose In Life, Try This
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April 1, 2021 0
Ever Wonder Why We All Think So Many Useless, Involuntary Thoughts?
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March 28, 2021 0
An Eckhart Tolle Quote That Relaxes My Entire Being
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March 24, 2021 0
The Direct Path To Happiness Lies In This Central Teaching Of Buddhism
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March 20, 2021 0
6 Inspirational Quotes From Emerson’s “Essay On Self-Reliance”
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March 17, 2021 0
Meditation’s Anti-aging Benefits
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March 13, 2021 0
An Eckhart Quote That Helps Dissolve Anxiety: “Accept This Moment As It Is.”
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March 10, 2021 0
A Super Helpful Go-To Word For Your Mindfulness Practice
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March 7, 2021 0
4 Einstein Traits That Led To His Colossal Success
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March 4, 2021 0
The Insanity Of Humanity– We Do This Over and Over and Expect Different Results
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March 1, 2021 2
2 Mindfulness Practices That Are Powerful AND Fun: Music and dogs.
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February 24, 2021 0
Taking Life Too Seriously? Consider Amping Up The Silliness
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February 20, 2021 2
“What Should I Do With My Life?” An Answer For All To Consider
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February 16, 2021 3
Ram Dass’s Iconic Book “Be Here Now” Caused a Spiritual Earthquake - Read it. It Will Blow Your Mind.
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February 12, 2021 0
My Mindful Colonoscopy - And what you can learn from it.
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February 8, 2021 0
Using Your Stubbornness to Grow
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February 4, 2021 0
A Mindfulness Technique to Use While Exercising
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February 3, 2021 0
3 Classic Must-Reads: 1 Novel, 1 Biography, and 1 Poem
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February 1, 2021 0
Eckhart Tolle’s Simple, Powerful Spiritual Practice He Recommends For Everybody
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January 30, 2021 3
The 3 Ways We Can Respond to Emotional Upset: Express, Suppress or Watch
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January 25, 2021 0
The Tao Te Ching’s Wisdom Regarding Work Is Invaluable
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January 22, 2021 0
Mindfulness Practices In Schools Are Working — It’s Time To Teach What’s Behind Them
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January 19, 2021 0
What You Can Learn From My New Year’s Resolution
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January 15, 2021 0
Use These Eckhart Tolle and Tao te Ching Quotes on Gratitude To Jumpstart Your 2021
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January 12, 2021 0
The Best 2021 New Year’s Resolution: Working On Yourself
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January 9, 2021 0
An Effective Long-Term Weight Loss Solution: Meditation
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January 6, 2021 0
Want To Propel Your Spiritual Growth? Be Patient
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December 29, 2020 0
A Helpful Analogy For Working With Our Frenzied Minds
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December 22, 2020 0
These 4 Michael Singer Quotes Are All You Need For Your Spiritual Journey
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December 15, 2020 0
An Overlooked Gift That a Meditation And Mindfulness Practice Bestows
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December 8, 2020 0
Want to Feel Good? Fight for Your Energy Flow
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December 1, 2020 0
4 Jon Kabat-Zinn Quotes to Anchor Your Meditation and Mindfulness Practices
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November 25, 2020 0
Want To Be Happy? Get Rid Of Your Baggage - Here’s how
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November 18, 2020 0
Most People Say They’re Pursuing Happiness. They Aren’t.
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November 11, 2020 0
Eckhart Tolle: Why People Are Drawn to Him Is a Lesson in Itself
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November 4, 2020 0
Want to Reduce Stress? Try Being IN The World, Not OF It
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October 28, 2020 0
A Personal Growth Tip: Look at Your Behaviors as You Would Symptoms of a Cold
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October 21, 2020 0
A Passage From The Tao Te Ching That Could Change Your Life
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October 14, 2020 1
Eckhart Tolle’s Strategy For Dealing With Difficult People
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October 10, 2020 0
Ram Dass Got It Right: Chopping Wood And Carrying Water IS The Spiritual Path
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October 5, 2020 0
Eckhart Tolle Teaches Us To Not Identify With Our Thoughts: Here’s A Technique To Help You Do It
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September 30, 2020 0
6 Quotes By 3 Iconic Americans That Pro AND Anti-Trumpers Should Heed
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September 24, 2020 0
A Mindful Strategy For Navigating Today’s Political Firestorm
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September 17, 2020 0
Compassion: It’s the Paramount Teaching of the Spiritual Masters
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September 10, 2020 0
These 4 Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes Are A Manual For Life
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September 3, 2020 0
This Teaching on Happiness Is The Best I’ve Ever Encountered
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August 28, 2020 0
Do You Constantly Obsess About Your “Problems”? Try This
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August 21, 2020 0
My Favorite Meditation Teacher and What You Can Learn From Him
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August 14, 2020 0
Learn From Michelangelo: Chip Away At Yourself Every Day
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August 8, 2020 1
What’s The Single Best Thing You Can Do For Yourself Today? Let Go Of Yourself
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August 1, 2020 0
Eckhart Tolle’s Most Important Saying: “Awareness is the greatest agent for change.”
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July 24, 2020 1
Do You Wake Up Feeling Anxious Most Mornings? Here’s a Plan of Attack
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July 17, 2020 0
Why Most People Struggle With Meditation And Mindfulness
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July 10, 2020 0
Want To Get Better At Everything AND Feel Better? Try Slowing Down
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July 4, 2020 0
An Effective Technique for Relieving Anxiety
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June 27, 2020 0
2 Current Spiritual Teachers Who Can Transform Your Life Today
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June 21, 2020 0
Want to Nip Negative Thoughts In The Bud? Try This
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June 14, 2020 0
The Key To Life is Simple: Keep It Simple
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June 5, 2020 0
Use This One Word to Anchor Your Mindfulness Practice
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May 26, 2020 0
3 Meditations And 3 Mindfulness Exercises That Will Ease Your Covid-19 Blues
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May 19, 2020 0
Trying to Conquer Your Chattering Mind Is Futile — Do this Instead
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May 12, 2020 0
How Meditation and Mindfulness Reduced My Fear of Death
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May 5, 2020 0
Use this Passage From the Tao Te Ching to Transform Your Life in Self-Quarantine
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April 27, 2020 0
Less Is More: The Profound Lesson That Quarantine Life Has Taught Millions
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April 20, 2020 0
The Universe Is Teaching Us A Profound Lesson Through This Pandemic
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April 13, 2020 0
The Best Strategy For Managing The Bizzaro World of Self-Quarantine? Surrender
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April 6, 2020 0
Eckhart Tolle Teaches To Not Identify With Your Thoughts — But How Do You Actually DO That?
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March 30, 2020 0
Do You Know That ‘Being Present’ Is Invaluable But Find It Hard To Do?
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March 24, 2020 0
3 Mindful Tips To Help You Cope With The Coronavirus Pandemic
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March 17, 2020 0
Got the Quarantine Blues? This Short, Guided Meditation Will Make You Feel Better
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March 10, 2020 0
A Valuable Lesson That Sports Like Rock Climbing, Basketball And Skiing Teach Us
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March 4, 2020 0
Bored in Self-Quarantine? Here’s How Two Barbarians Randomly Influenced The English Language
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February 27, 2020 1
Eckhart Tolle Is Right: Surrender Is Central to Spiritual Growth
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February 18, 2020 0
Want To Unload A Ton of Psychic Baggage? Stop Judging Others
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February 5, 2020 0
Comparing Ourselves To Others: All Harm, No Benefit
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January 22, 2020 0
How To Use Your Smartphone to Build Mindfulness
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January 11, 2020 2
One Way Meditation Rewired My Brain…for the Better
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January 2, 2020 0
Spiritual Seekers: Follow This One Key Teaching In Herman Hesse’s Siddhartha
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December 25, 2019 0
What’s Left After We Strip Away Our Ego?
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December 18, 2019 0
Helpful Wisdom For Writers From A 2,500 Year Old Book, The Tao Te Ching
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December 11, 2019 0
2 Valuable Things I Learned Living In Paris With My Wife
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December 7, 2019 0
For a Fulfilling Life, Follow R.W. Emerson’s Definition of Success
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December 3, 2019 0
An Easy And Effective Weekly Task To Focus Your Life Where You Want It
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November 29, 2019 0
Want To Add Intimacy To Your Relationship? Get Into Wine
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November 23, 2019 0
Want to Feel Better? Go Outside and Listen to the Birds
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November 16, 2019 0
How Mindfulness Can Be Especially Helpful During Tough Times
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November 9, 2019 0
The First line of the Tao Te Ching: The Ultimate Teaching
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November 5, 2019 0
How to Encourage Your Children to Meditate
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November 1, 2019 0
A Simple Technique You Can Use to Quiet the Voice in the Head
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October 25, 2019 0
What I Learned Working For Two Oscar and Emmy Award-Winning Writers
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October 18, 2019 1
Why Getting Rid of Your ‘Self’ is the Key to Personal Growth
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October 11, 2019 0
3 Tips for Using Mindfulness When Traveling
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October 4, 2019 0
Three Ways Mindfulness Will Transform Your Marriage/Relationship
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September 25, 2019 0
The One Thing You Need to do to Master Any Craft
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September 18, 2019 0
The 3 Things You Have To Do To Develop A Lasting Meditation Practice
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September 10, 2019 0
Learn From Rembrandt: Success and Peace Come From Accessing The Spirit Within
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August 30, 2019 1
For a Fulfilling Life, Follow These Four Pillars of the Great Teddy Roosevelt
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August 10, 2019 0
Constantly Getting Knocked Off the Spiritual Horse? Create a Go-to Catchphrase
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August 7, 2019 0
3 Ways to Keep Spiritual Growth the Main Thing
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August 1, 2019 0
Office Politics: A Valuable Lesson I Learned From a Real West Winger While Writing On The West Wing TV Show
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Meditation
July 25, 2019 0
An Invaluable Tip I Learned That Transformed My Meditation Practice
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July 17, 2019 0
The Ecky 5: Five Eckhart Tolle Quotes That Provide Everything You Need For Your Spiritual Journey
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July 14, 2019 0
How Can You Reduce The Pain In Your Life By At Least Half? Stop Flipping Out
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July 8, 2019 0
Use This Photo To Help You Chill The F*&% Out About Life
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June 29, 2019 0
How An 80 Year-Old Woman’s Tears Righted My Spiritual Ship
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June 22, 2019 0
All Spiritual Growth Comes From Doing This: Subtracting, Not Adding
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