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August 14, 2022 0

A Ram Dass Quote About How to Seek Truth

August 10, 2022 0

Yogananda’s Quote About Education is Right on the Mark - We should teach true intelligence, not facts and ideas.

August 5, 2022 0

How, and How Not, to Deal With Your Ego: Watch, don’t fight.

August 1, 2022 0

An Eckhart Tolle Quote You Could Build a Spiritual Practice Around

July 27, 2022 0

4 Steps to Turning Around a Bad Day

July 24, 2022 0

9 Words That Calm Me When I Get Stressed

July 20, 2022 0

Do You Feel Overwhelmed All the Time? This Ancient Method Will Calm You

July 16, 2022 0

A Stress-relieving Benefit of Spirituality: Easier Decision-making

July 12, 2022 4

The Best Technique I Know to Quiet Unwanted Thoughts

July 8, 2022 8

I Lost my Oldest Friend this Week - Shawn Gallagher (1962–2022)

July 5, 2022 0

Ram Dass’s Wise Teaching on Deciding What to Do With Your Life

June 30, 2022 2

Letting Go of Our Emotional Baggage is Crucial, but Also Really Hard - Here’s How to Make it Easier

June 27, 2022 0

A Tip to Help You Let Go of Emotional Baggage

June 23, 2022 6

3 Words to Stop You from Falling Into a Bad Mood

June 20, 2022 0

How Mindfulness Made My Lousy Day Less Lousy

June 16, 2022 0

A Tao Te Ching Gem About Where to Mine for Life’s Gold

June 13, 2022 0

What I Learned Taking the Ananda Meditation Course -Pro and Con.

June 9, 2022 0

Why Worrying is the Most Destructive of All Human emotions - And How to Slay it.

June 5, 2022 0

This Supreme Spiritual Teaching Takes Vigilance to Follow

June 1, 2022 0

My 1987 Ralph Waldo Emerson Yearbook Quote Took Years for me to Follow

May 27, 2022 0

Who Are You? You’re a Flashlight - What you’re NOT is your mind.

May 24, 2022 0

Ram Dass’s Beautiful Teaching About Keeping the Heart Open

May 21, 2022 0

An Effective Strategy to Use When You Get Upset

May 18, 2022 0

A Simple Spiritual Exercise That Will Do You and the World a World Of Good

May 15, 2022 0

5 Life Lessons I Learned From My Dad, Walter B. Gerken - The good, the bad and the funny.

May 11, 2022 0

Try this Spiritual Exercise: If it’s Gone From the Outside, it’s Gone From the Inside

May 8, 2022 0

3 Words That Immediately Center Me: Flow With Life

May 4, 2022 0

My Spiritual Struggle: Resisting Others’ Resistance And my plan for working on it.

April 30, 2022 0

Ram Dass’s Quote About the Spiritual Path: Be the Captain of Your Ship

April 26, 2022 0

Thich Nhat Hanh’s Quote About Happiness: It’s About Peace, Not Excitement

April 22, 2022 0

Mickey Singer has Surrendered for the Past 50 Years — Join me in Trying it for a Day

April 18, 2022 0

Mickey Singer’s Funny and Accurate Analogy Describing the Spiritual Path

April 14, 2022 0

Eckhart Tolle’s Teaching That Annoys The Heck Out of Me — Unfortunately, He’s Right

April 10, 2022 0

Use This Snow Globe Analogy to Help Deal With Adversity

April 6, 2022 0

Treat Your Moments as You Would a Business Decision -Accept, then act.

April 2, 2022 0

Why Getting Fired From The West Wing was the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me

March 29, 2022 0

Eckhart Tolle’s Remarks on Nihilism Illuminated This Invaluable Benefit of Spiritual Pursuits

March 25, 2022 0

Family Relationships Can be Rough — They’re Also a Goldmine for Spiritual Growth

March 21, 2022 2

Constantly Obsessing About Our Overall Life Situation is Futile — Try This Instead

March 18, 2022 0

Liberation: A Helpful Concept for Understanding the Spiritual Path

March 15, 2022 2

Rumi Has Hundreds of Beautiful Quotes — This is My Favorite - It’s about the voice inside.

March 11, 2022 0

5 Pinch Myself Moments Working on “The West Wing” Television Show

March 7, 2022 3

What Eckhart Tolle Says is the Only True Purpose of Our Lives

March 4, 2022 8

This is My Least Spiritual Article to Date — But Also the Most Important - It’s about practice.

March 1, 2022 0

My Computer Crashed, But I Didn’t: How Mindfulness Saved My Day

February 25, 2022 2

How Teddy Roosevelt’s Darkest Period Propelled Him to the Presidency

February 22, 2022 0

The Comparing Game: A Losing Proposition That’s All Pain, No Gain

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.

February 15, 2022 0

My Most Cherished Moment Working on “The West Wing” TV Show

February 12, 2022 0

Gandhi’s Famous Quote About the Value of Meditation

February 8, 2022 0

The Story of How Eckhart Tolle Manifested “The Power Of Now”

February 3, 2022 0

The Lightbulb Moment That Sparked Mickey Singer’s 50 Year Spiritual Odyssey

January 29, 2022 0

Ram Dass’s Guru Didn’t Teach Much: Just This Simple Philosophy

January 23, 2022 0

Ram Dass’s Beautiful Quote About Imagining Yourself as a Flower

January 20, 2022 0

My 4 Step Strategy for Changing Careers - I’ve done it twice.

January 17, 2022 0

Eckhart Tolle Is My Favorite Spiritual Being. Mickey Singer Is My Favorite Teacher

January 14, 2022 0

3 Joseph Campbell Quotes About Living Life

January 10, 2022 0

Ramana Maharshi’s Simple Prescription for Spiritual Growth - Be still. Be.

January 7, 2022 0

The Profound Spiritual Lesson Tennis Has Taught Me

January 4, 2022 0

The Tao te Ching Passage That Shapes My Career Path- It’s about letting the mud clear.

January 1, 2022 0

My 2022 New Year’s Resolutions

December 28, 2021 2

My Journey to Meditation: The Before and After

December 24, 2021 0

2 Words to Simplify Your Spiritual Journey And cut down on all the confusion and overwhelm.

December 20, 2021 2

Nonattachment: The Big Kahuna of Spirituality — So Hard, but so Worth the Work

December 16, 2021 0

Thomas Merton: If You Want to Help the World, Work on Yourself

December 12, 2021 0

Simplify Your Life by Looking at Everything Through This One Lens

December 7, 2021 0

A Tao Te Ching Passage That Illuminates the Spiritual Path

December 2, 2021 0

The Question to Ask Yourself When a Stressful Situation Arises

November 28, 2021 0

4 Ways to Beat the Holiday Blues

November 24, 2021 0

An Eckhart Tolle Gem to Help You Navigate the Holidays

November 20, 2021 2

How I Turned my Dog’s Eye Problem Into a Mindful Practice

November 17, 2021 0

A Mindful Strategy for Dealing With Bad Moods

November 14, 2021 0

How a Terrible Writing Session Led to a Spiritual Breakthrough

November 10, 2021 0

To Try or Not to Try: That is the Question With Spiritual Work

November 6, 2021 2

The Simple Phrase Ram Dass’s Guru Spoke Again and Again

November 2, 2021 0

4 Dalai Lama Quotes to Inspire Your Insides

October 30, 2021 0

Eckhart Tolle’s Advice About Dealing With Annoying Everyday Situations

October 26, 2021 2

2 of Shakespeare’s Greatest Plays are Cautionary Tales About Capitulating to Our Egos

October 23, 2021 2

Want to Spur Your Meditation Practice? Go Back to Kindergarten

October 20, 2021 0

Spiritual Work is Like Anything Else: Progress Comes Through Practice

October 16, 2021 0

How My Recent Experience With The Blahs Can Help You With Yours

October 13, 2021 0

4 Rumi Sayings That Will Sing to Your Soul

October 8, 2021 0

Read This Piece if You Want to Get Your Life on Track

October 4, 2021 0

I Let Go of Some Egoic Baggage Last Week — the Result is All Good

September 30, 2021 2

Try Thich Nhat Hanh’s Plan for Spending a Mindful Day

September 27, 2021 0

3 Hunks of Egoic Baggage I Need to Let Go of

September 24, 2021 0

3 Ideas for Bringing Paris to You - No surprise, there’s food involved.

September 20, 2021 2

A Huge Spiritual Discovery I Made Last Week That Can Help You, Too

September 16, 2021 2

What My Friend’s Year in the Arctic Teaches Us About our Brains

September 12, 2021 0

Mickey Singer’s Helpful Metaphor for Letting Go of Our Egos - It’s about letting go of the rocks.

September 7, 2021 0

Parents Over-Worrying About Their Kids: The Other Pandemic Raging Across the Land

September 2, 2021 0

Why Hope Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up to be

August 28, 2021 0

A Two Word Tool to Fortify Your Meditation And Mindfulness Practices

August 23, 2021 0

The One Spiritual Work I Recommend Over All Others

August 20, 2021 0

An Analogy to Calm You When Your Ego Gets Triggered

August 16, 2021 0

5 Lessons Everyone Can Learn From my Naturally Zen Mom

August 14, 2021 0

Use this Ram Dass Idea to Help Heal Your Psyche - It’s about becoming nobody.

August 11, 2021 0

What Getting Fired From “The West Wing” Taught Me About Meditation and the Brain

August 8, 2021 0

Use This Eckhart Tolle Quote to Deepen Understanding of Your True Self

August 4, 2021 0

A Technique That Helps Me Stay Centered When I’m Losing It

July 28, 2021 2

Want to Heal Your Mind? Treat It as You Would a Simple Skin Wound

July 24, 2021 2

The Meditation Elite Does a Bad Job of Communicating to Regular People

July 20, 2021 0

My Cancer Scare: Where Spiritual Work Helped…and Where it Didn’t

July 17, 2021 0

How Spiritual Work Has Calmed Me as I Face the Summer Travel Shit Show

July 14, 2021 0

A Helpful Technique to Aid in Letting Go of Your Ego

July 10, 2021 2

A Simple Spiritual Exercise That Could Transform Your Life - A doable approach to letting go of our egos.

July 7, 2021 0

What Eckhart Tolle’s 1977 Awakening Teaches Us About the Two Selves

July 3, 2021 0

3 Things I Learned on Our Family Trip to France

June 30, 2021 0

3 Things That Saved Me on My Weekend Alone With the Kids

June 24, 2021 2

The Interplay of These 3 Spiritual Entities Explains Our Inner World - According to my favorite yogi, Mickey Singer

June 20, 2021 0

Why All Celebrities Should Meditate

June 16, 2021 0

Eckhart Tolle’s Powerful Teaching: Using Boredom to Propel Us Into Being

June 13, 2021 0

Jerry Seinfeld’s Meditation Experience Should be a Wakeup Call to the Business World

June 9, 2021 0

5 Ram Dass Sayings That Sum Up the Spiritual Path

June 5, 2021 0

Two Ways That Golf Teaches us How to Thrive at Work

June 1, 2021 0

Follow This Life Path to Radically Reduce Your Stress and Anxiety

May 28, 2021 0

Phil Mickelson Credits Meditation for Winning the PGA Championship

May 25, 2021 0

Do Spiritual People Believe Thinking Is Bad?

May 22, 2021 0

Letting Go of Our Grievances is All Upside, No Downside

May 18, 2021 0

Denzel Washington’s Stirring Commencement Speech At Dillard University - And the one thing I would add.

May 15, 2021 0

5 Yogananda Quotes That Inspire And Enlighten

May 13, 2021 0

A Comforting Spiritual Metaphor to Consider, In Meditation And in Life: Going home

May 9, 2021 0

Want To Strengthen Your Mindfulness? Start Cooking

May 7, 2021 0

Eckhart Tolle Believes That Humans Are Evolving Toward a Higher Consciousness

May 3, 2021 0

My Captain Obvious, Highly Effective Tip For Strengthening Your Mindfulness Practice

April 29, 2021 0

3 Lessons I Learned Spending An Afternoon With President George H.W. Bush

April 26, 2021 0

5 Compelling Quotes From Meher Baba, The Great Indian Sage

April 22, 2021 0

4 Life Lessons We Can All Learn By Playing Sports

April 20, 2021 0

A Practical Tip to Help Shed Emotional Baggage

April 15, 2021 0

4 Life Lessons We Can All Learn From The French

April 10, 2021 0

2 Ways Eckhart Tolle Teaches Us to Access the Present Moment

April 7, 2021 0

Good News About Our Brains: We Can Physically Alter Them For The Better

April 4, 2021 0

For All of You Searching For Your Purpose In Life, Try This

April 1, 2021 0

Ever Wonder Why We All Think So Many Useless, Involuntary Thoughts?

March 28, 2021 0

An Eckhart Tolle Quote That Relaxes My Entire Being

March 24, 2021 0

The Direct Path To Happiness Lies In This Central Teaching Of Buddhism

March 20, 2021 0

6 Inspirational Quotes From Emerson’s “Essay On Self-Reliance”

March 17, 2021 0

Meditation’s Anti-aging Benefits

March 13, 2021 0

An Eckhart Quote That Helps Dissolve Anxiety: “Accept This Moment As It Is.”

March 10, 2021 0

A Super Helpful Go-To Word For Your Mindfulness Practice

March 7, 2021 0

4 Einstein Traits That Led To His Colossal Success

March 4, 2021 0

The Insanity Of Humanity– We Do This Over and Over and Expect Different Results

March 1, 2021 2

2 Mindfulness Practices That Are Powerful AND Fun: Music and dogs.

February 24, 2021 0

Taking Life Too Seriously? Consider Amping Up The Silliness

February 20, 2021 2

“What Should I Do With My Life?” An Answer For All To Consider

February 16, 2021 3

Ram Dass’s Iconic Book “Be Here Now” Caused a Spiritual Earthquake - Read it. It Will Blow Your Mind.

February 12, 2021 2

My Mindful Colonoscopy - And what you can learn from it.

February 8, 2021 0

Using Your Stubbornness to Grow

February 4, 2021 0

A Mindfulness Technique to Use While Exercising

February 3, 2021 0

3 Classic Must-Reads: 1 Novel, 1 Biography, and 1 Poem

February 1, 2021 0

Eckhart Tolle’s Simple, Powerful Spiritual Practice He Recommends For Everybody

January 30, 2021 3

The 3 Ways We Can Respond to Emotional Upset: Express, Suppress or Watch

January 25, 2021 0

The Tao Te Ching’s Wisdom Regarding Work Is Invaluable

January 22, 2021 0

Mindfulness Practices In Schools Are Working — It’s Time To Teach What’s Behind Them

January 19, 2021 0

What You Can Learn From My New Year’s Resolution

January 15, 2021 0

Use These Eckhart Tolle and Tao te Ching Quotes on Gratitude To Jumpstart Your 2021

January 12, 2021 0

The Best 2021 New Year’s Resolution: Working On Yourself

January 9, 2021 0

An Effective Long-Term Weight Loss Solution: Meditation

January 6, 2021 0

Want To Propel Your Spiritual Growth? Be Patient

December 29, 2020 0

A Helpful Analogy For Working With Our Frenzied Minds

December 22, 2020 0

These 4 Michael Singer Quotes Are All You Need For Your Spiritual Journey

December 15, 2020 0

An Overlooked Gift That a Meditation And Mindfulness Practice Bestows

December 8, 2020 0

Want to Feel Good? Fight for Your Energy Flow

December 1, 2020 0

4 Jon Kabat-Zinn Quotes to Anchor Your Meditation and Mindfulness Practices

November 25, 2020 0

Want To Be Happy? Get Rid Of Your Baggage - Here’s how

November 18, 2020 0

Most People Say They’re Pursuing Happiness. They Aren’t.

November 11, 2020 0

Eckhart Tolle: Why People Are Drawn to Him Is a Lesson in Itself

November 4, 2020 0

Want to Reduce Stress? Try Being IN The World, Not OF It

October 28, 2020 0

A Personal Growth Tip: Look at Your Behaviors as You Would Symptoms of a Cold

October 21, 2020 0

A Passage From The Tao Te Ching That Could Change Your Life

October 14, 2020 1

Eckhart Tolle’s Strategy For Dealing With Difficult People

October 10, 2020 0

Ram Dass Got It Right: Chopping Wood And Carrying Water IS The Spiritual Path

October 5, 2020 0

Eckhart Tolle Teaches Us To Not Identify With Our Thoughts: Here’s A Technique To Help You Do It

September 30, 2020 0

6 Quotes By 3 Iconic Americans That Pro AND Anti-Trumpers Should Heed

September 24, 2020 0

A Mindful Strategy For Navigating Today’s Political Firestorm

September 17, 2020 0

Compassion: It’s the Paramount Teaching of the Spiritual Masters

September 10, 2020 0

These 4 Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes Are A Manual For Life

September 3, 2020 0

This Teaching on Happiness Is The Best I’ve Ever Encountered

August 28, 2020 0

Do You Constantly Obsess About Your “Problems”? Try This

August 21, 2020 0

My Favorite Meditation Teacher and What You Can Learn From Him

August 14, 2020 0

Learn From Michelangelo: Chip Away At Yourself Every Day

August 8, 2020 1

What’s The Single Best Thing You Can Do For Yourself Today? Let Go Of Yourself

August 1, 2020 0

Eckhart Tolle’s Most Important Saying: “Awareness is the greatest agent for change.”

July 24, 2020 1

Do You Wake Up Feeling Anxious Most Mornings? Here’s a Plan of Attack

July 17, 2020 0

Why Most People Struggle With Meditation And Mindfulness

July 10, 2020 0

Want To Get Better At Everything AND Feel Better? Try Slowing Down

July 4, 2020 0

An Effective Technique for Relieving Anxiety

June 27, 2020 0

2 Current Spiritual Teachers Who Can Transform Your Life Today

June 21, 2020 0

Want to Nip Negative Thoughts In The Bud? Try This

June 14, 2020 0

The Key To Life is Simple: Keep It Simple

June 5, 2020 0

Use This One Word to Anchor Your Mindfulness Practice

May 26, 2020 0

3 Meditations And 3 Mindfulness Exercises That Will Ease Your Covid-19 Blues

May 19, 2020 0

Trying to Conquer Your Chattering Mind Is Futile — Do this Instead

May 12, 2020 0

How Meditation and Mindfulness Reduced My Fear of Death

May 5, 2020 0

Use this Passage From the Tao Te Ching to Transform Your Life in Self-Quarantine

April 27, 2020 0

Less Is More: The Profound Lesson That Quarantine Life Has Taught Millions

April 20, 2020 0

The Universe Is Teaching Us A Profound Lesson Through This Pandemic

April 13, 2020 0

The Best Strategy For Managing The Bizzaro World of Self-Quarantine? Surrender

April 6, 2020 0

Eckhart Tolle Teaches To Not Identify With Your Thoughts — But How Do You Actually DO That?

March 30, 2020 0

Do You Know That ‘Being Present’ Is Invaluable But Find It Hard To Do?

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