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April 17, 2024 2
The Mind-Boggling Story of Dr. Larry Brilliant, Maharajii and Eradicating Smallpox
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April 10, 2024 0
Ram Dass on Why We Keep Doing All this Spiritual Studying - It’s about repetition.
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April 5, 2024 0
Want to Unload Heaps of Emotional Baggage? Let Go of Grudges
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April 2, 2024 0
The Central Teaching of Buddhism is Brilliant and Can Help us All…if we Understand it Correctly
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March 29, 2024 0
Dr. Larry Brilliant’s Moving Encounter With His Guru, Maharajii
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March 25, 2024 0
This Short Mantra Could Guide Your Entire Life
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March 22, 2024 0
Eckhart Tolle’s Wise Quote About Where We Find Our Deepest Self
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March 18, 2024 0
The Most Important Life Choice There Is: Pursue What We Want or Let Go
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March 15, 2024 0
A Prominent Neuroscientist’s Simple, Sensible Remedy for Anxiety
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March 12, 2024 0
One Small Mindfulness Victory for Me, One Giant Lesson for All of Us
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March 8, 2024 0
This Thich Nhat Hanh Poem is the Most Powerful I’ve Ever Read
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March 5, 2024 0
Use Basic Grammar to Understand the Most Important Truth About Life - It all comes down to subject, object.
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March 1, 2024 0
What’s the Healthiest Way to Deal With Anger and Upset? Lengthen Your Fuse
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February 24, 2024 0
Using the Brain to Help Tame the Mind
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February 20, 2024 0
I Think We Should Call Meditation Something Else - I have three candidates.
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February 16, 2024 0
How to Deal with Painful Emotions from Our Past: Mickey Singer’s Tough Love Teaching
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February 12, 2024 0
An Emotion That Society Needs to Eradicate: Stubbornness
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February 8, 2024 0
Ram Dass on Our Propensity to Reinforce Each Other’s Egos - We constantly feed each other french fries
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February 5, 2024 0
Rumi’s Wise Nugget About Finding Love
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February 1, 2024 0
Mickey Singer’s Brilliant, Unsexy Phrase Describing Our Life’s Work
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January 28, 2024 0
A Common, Costly Mistake That Stunts Spiritual Growth: A Faulty Awareness Bell
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January 24, 2024 0
Want to Improve Your Performance AND Feel Better? Slow Down
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January 20, 2024 0
Developing Equanimity: The Indispensable Tool for Spiritual Growth
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January 18, 2024 0
What We Can Learn from Mickey Singer’s Crowded Elevator Example
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January 14, 2024 0
Taoism’s Creator Taught Only Three Things — He Listed This One First
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January 10, 2024 0
A Hugely Unsung Benefit of Spiritual Growth: Reduced Anticipatory Anxiety
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January 3, 2024 0
A Simple Breathing Technique to Help You be Present in Nature
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December 29, 2023 0
An Epic Mickey Singer Quote That Cuts to the Heart of Our Life’s Work - It’s about becoming empty.
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December 25, 2023 0
The Simple (Kinda Hokey) Way I Use Eckhart Tolle in My Daily Life
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December 20, 2023 0
Two Spiritual Lessons I Learned From an Unfun Encounter With My Accountant
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December 16, 2023 0
We Could Reduce Our Entire Life Strategy to Doing Just This: Relax and Let the Clouds Pass
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December 12, 2023 0
Is Competing Unspiritual? Yes and No It depends on the motivation of the competitor.
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December 8, 2023 0
Describing the Human Predicament: The Sun, the Clouds and Us
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December 4, 2023 0
Spiritual Growth Requires Understanding a Basic Truth: We Need to Subtract, Not Add I
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November 29, 2023 0
A Common, Costly Mistake Many Make on The Spiritual Path: Trying To Control The Mind
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November 25, 2023 0
Want to Clarify Your Life? View Your Body as a Radio
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November 21, 2023 2
To Stave Off a Funk, Confine Your Misery to the Now
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November 15, 2023 0
What the Masters Teach Us to Do in Response to Crises Like Gaza And Ukraine
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November 11, 2023 0
The Healthiest Approach to Life: ABF It’s about flow.
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November 11, 2023 0
Eckhart Tolle’s Profound Teaching: We Live Our Lives on Two Tracks
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November 7, 2023 0
Tom Brady’s Inspiring Quote Reveals How He Became the Best Football Player Ever
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November 2, 2023 0
Teddy Roosevelt: My Favorite Quote from My Favorite President - It’s about integrity.
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October 28, 2023 0
Ram Dass’s Fateful Decision in 1967: Choose Comfort or Discomfort?
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October 23, 2023 0
Patience: It’s the Indispensable Ingredient for Spiritual Growth
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October 18, 2023 7
Compassion: It’s What We Find at the End of the Spiritual Rainbow
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October 15, 2023 2
This Practice Will Strengthen Your Mindfulness and Curb Your Ego
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October 10, 2023 4
Want to Boost Your Mood? Go Outside and Listen to the Birds
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October 5, 2023 0
Venting Is Healthier Than Suppressing, but We Can Do Better
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September 30, 2023 6
Why I Pay Eckhart Tolle $200 a Year for Access to His Website
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September 25, 2023 2
My Acceptance/Non-resistance Work Is Paying Off — Here’s How It Can Help You
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September 20, 2023 0
Ram Dass’s Brilliant Quote About Our Prison Predicament
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September 15, 2023 0
Attention Parents: Most of us Violate Buddhism’s Central Tenet…Constantly
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September 10, 2023 0
Why Decision-Making Is So Hard for So Many
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September 6, 2023 0
A Ram Dass Quote That Made My Head Explode
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September 2, 2023 0
How to Let Go When Your Emotional Baggage Gets Poked
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August 29, 2023 0
Having Strong Opinions is Not All it’s Cracked Up to Be
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August 25, 2023 0
One Guru Is Head and Shoulders Above The Rest: Life.
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August 21, 2023 0
Try This Approach to Life: Maximize the Good, Minimize the Bad
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August 17, 2023 4
Understanding This Nuance Will Save You a Ton of Heart Ache Traveling the Spiritual Path
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August 14, 2023 8
The Priceless Gift Mickey Singer Gave Me on My Second Visit to His Temple
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August 11, 2023 0
Deal With a Triggered Emotion Just as You Would a Painful Knot During Massage
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August 8, 2023 0
Is Your Life a Constant Tug of War Pitting You Against the World? I have a great solution for you.
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August 5, 2023 0
The Spiritual Practice That Helps Me the Most - It’s about acceptance.
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August 2, 2023 0
Having trouble finding your way in the World? Try Mark Twain’s Simple Strategy for Life
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July 30, 2023 0
Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Inspiring Quote About Trusting Our Inner Genius
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July 27, 2023 0
Use this Michelangelo Metaphor to Anchor the Rest of Your Life
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July 23, 2023 0
Follow Teddy Roosevelt’s Zen Work Approach to Succeed in Any Career
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July 19, 2023 0
The Most Important Work of My Life is Something I Continually Lose Sight Of
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July 15, 2023 0
An Exalted Indian Saint’s Advice for Managing Our Egos
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July 9, 2023 0
3 Ideas for Boosting Your Creativity
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July 4, 2023 0
Why I Changed My New Year’s Resolution Mid-Year
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July 1, 2023 0
Rumi’s Wise Words About Seeking Love
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June 26, 2023 0
How to Handle the Good Times - It’s about not clinging.
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June 21, 2023 0
An Eye-Opening Pearl From The Tao Te Ching - It’s about how to ‘get it all.’
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June 18, 2023 2
This Yogananda Exchange with a Devotee Made My Head Explode…in a Good Way
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June 15, 2023 0
Ram Dass’s Beautiful Description of What Awakening Looks Like
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June 12, 2023 0
Learn This Simple, Boring Sentence and You’ll be Set for Life
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June 8, 2023 0
Ram Dass’s Eloquent Teaching About Stillness
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June 3, 2023 0
Ramakrishna Was Asked if There Was a Meaningful Prayer — This Was His Response
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May 30, 2023 0
A Major Obstacle to Happiness - And the Simple Solution.
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May 25, 2023 0
Thich Nhat Hanh’s Simple, Powerful Method for Staying Centered
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May 20, 2023 2
Eckhart Tolle’s Beautiful Quote About Who We Are and Who We Aren’t
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May 17, 2023 2
You Want to Be Present? Escape to the Moment in Front Of You
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May 14, 2023 2
This Meditation Cue Will Knock Your Socks Off
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May 11, 2023 0
Ramana Maharshi’s Mind-Blowing Quote About Pondering the World’s Ills
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May 7, 2023 0
Oprah Winfrey’s Favorite Passage in Mickey Singer’s New Book “Living Untethered”
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May 4, 2023 0
My 3 Year Depression Odyssey, Part 2: 3 Lessons I Learned - Wisdom gained through the awful grace of God.
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May 1, 2023 0
My 3 Year Depression Odyssey, Part 1: The Story - From the abyss to beholding the stars.
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April 28, 2023 0
The Beatles Song That Captures It All
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April 25, 2023 0
4 Things I Want for My Kids - Now, and for the rest of their lives.
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April 22, 2023 0
Ram Dass on Being Spiritual in our Business Work
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April 19, 2023 0
Using Physical Pain for Growth
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April 16, 2023 0
Mini Grudges: How They Hold Us Back and What to Do About Them
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April 13, 2023 0
Mickey Singer’s Essential Teaching: Being Able to Handle What Life Throws at Us
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April 10, 2023 0
Many Say There Should be No Striving in Spirituality — I Disagree
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April 7, 2023 0
Our Needs Are Not Natural - They’re a symptom of what’s going on inside.
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April 3, 2023 0
My Visit to Mickey Singer’s Temple, Part 2: The Ram Dass Teaching He Gave Me - An eloquent teaching on letting go.
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March 28, 2023 2
My Visit to Mickey Singer’s Temple, Part 1: The Life-altering Advice He Gave Me
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March 22, 2023 0
Multitasking Is Not What It’s Cracked Up To Be
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March 17, 2023 0
This Joseph Goldstein Teaching on Meditation is Essential - It has to do with the goal of meditation.
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March 12, 2023 2
Please Practice Nonresistance — It Will Improve Your Life Immeasurably
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March 8, 2023 0
A Technique to Help You Stay Centered in the Face of Disturbance It’s about the seat of self.
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March 4, 2023 0
How Mindfulness Rescued Me on Our Family Ski Trip to Colorado - Abused on the slopes and abused by my kids.
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February 28, 2023 0
Ram Dass’s Teaching On How To Shed The Ego - It’s about molting, not tearing.
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February 22, 2023 0
Fear-Based Living Is Embedded in Our Society
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February 17, 2023 0
The Fabulous Ram Dass Inspired Christmas Gift My Wife Got Me - It Cost $12 and was my favorite present by far.
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February 12, 2023 0
This Ram Dass Teaching on Attachment Is Massively Important
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February 8, 2023 0
Recent Study Shows Mindfulness Exercises As Effective As Medication In Treating Anxiety
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February 4, 2023 0
Witness Consciousness May Sound Weird, but It’s Central to Spirituality
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February 1, 2023 2
Use the Image of Hands to Spur Your Spiritual Growth
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January 28, 2023 0
Eckhart Tolle’s Story About the Zen Master and the Archer
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January 24, 2023 2
Lessons Learned From My Mindfulness Battle Royale at the Bagel Shop
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January 20, 2023 0
People Think ‘Awakening’ Is the Best Description of the Spiritual Path — It Isn’t
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January 16, 2023 0
A Healthy, Simplified Way To Structure Your Life
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January 12, 2023 0
Eckhart Tolle’s Quote About Artists Is Right On
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January 9, 2023 0
How Going Easier On Yourself Can Improve Your Work Product
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January 6, 2023 0
Krishnamurti’s Beautiful Passage About Comprehending the Mysteries of the Universe
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January 3, 2023 0
Mickey Singer’s Funny Analogy That Crystallizes a Crucial Life Mistake People Make
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December 31, 2022 0
3 Things I’d Wish For Humanity In 2023 If I Could Wave A Magic Wand
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December 28, 2022 0
A Year-End Review of My 2022 Resolutions
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December 24, 2022 0
The Kitchen Sink Theory of Spiritual Work
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December 20, 2022 0
There Are Two Ways to Live Our Lives — One Works, One Doesn’t
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December 16, 2022 2
5 Words To Keep Top Of Mind, Especially When You Get Irked
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December 12, 2022 0
The Most Important Word in Spirituality
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December 8, 2022 0
Avoid This Trap in Letting go of Your Ego
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December 4, 2022 0
What Eckhart Tolle Says Is the Secret To Life
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December 1, 2022 2
An Exercise to Stop You From Exploding in Stressful Situations
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November 27, 2022 0
A Vexing Question I Get Asked About Appearing Weak in Confrontational Situations
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November 23, 2022 0
My Favorite Meditation Cue Also Helps Bigly in My Everyday Life
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November 19, 2022 0
Is Being Sensitive Good for Us? Yes…and No
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November 15, 2022 0
Focusing on Process Over Outcome Is the Way To Go
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November 11, 2022 0
Why Every Kid Playing Sports Should be Meditating and Practicing Mindfulness
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November 7, 2022 0
An Analogy to Make Your Meditation Sessions Easier -It’s like a rocket’s journey into space.
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November 4, 2022 2
Getting Comfortable With Your Inner Maniac - It’s critical to our mental and spiritual health.
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November 1, 2022 0
Ramana Maharshi’s Technique for Becoming our True Nature
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October 27, 2022 0
Marcus Aurelius’ Quote About Happiness Is Only Partly Right
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October 22, 2022 0
Eckhart Tolle’s Teaching on Our Two Identities
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October 18, 2022 0
Peter Russell: A Spiritual Teacher to Check Out
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October 14, 2022 0
Ask Yourself This Question to Get Your Spiritual Work Properly Focused
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October 10, 2022 2
A Two Word Mantra to Save You in Confrontational Situations
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October 5, 2022 0
Ram Dass’s Spot-On Take of How to View Our Thinking Minds: The master vs. the servant.
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October 1, 2022 2
Say Your Name to Aid in Letting Go of Your Ego
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September 28, 2022 0
If You Want to be Happy, Follow This Old Axiom
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September 25, 2022 0
Mickey Singer’s Favorite Line of Wisdom is About Preference - It comes from Sengcan, the Third Zen Patriarch.
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September 22, 2022 0
A Non ‘Woo-Woo’ Description of the Spiritual Path: Training Our Minds
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September 18, 2022 0
Do This to Anchor Yourself in the Present Moment
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September 15, 2022 0
Mickey Singer’s Brilliant Metaphor on How to Deal With Inner Disturbances
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September 12, 2022 0
Ram Dass’s Revelatory Exchange With His Guru, Maharaji - It’s about the power of serving others.
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September 8, 2022 0
Using Mindfulness to Deal With Oppressive Heat -Prevent the heat from melting your mood.
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September 5, 2022 0
Deepen Your Spiritual Practice by Transcending Language
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September 1, 2022 0
Ram Dass’s Pearl of Wisdom About the Present Moment
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August 28, 2022 0
3 Ways Mindfulness Helped Me Deal With COVID
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August 23, 2022 0
Mickey Singer’s Brilliant Analogy: Treat Your Insides as if It Were A House
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August 18, 2022 0
We All Carry Old Emotional Baggage — For Proof, Go to Your High School Reunion
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August 14, 2022 2
A Ram Dass Quote About How to Seek Truth
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August 10, 2022 2
Yogananda’s Quote About Education is Right on the Mark - We should teach true intelligence, not facts and ideas.
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August 5, 2022 0
How, and How Not, to Deal With Your Ego: Watch, don’t fight.
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August 1, 2022 0
An Eckhart Tolle Quote You Could Build a Spiritual Practice Around
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July 27, 2022 0
4 Steps to Turning Around a Bad Day
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July 24, 2022 0
9 Words That Calm Me When I Get Stressed
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July 20, 2022 0
Do You Feel Overwhelmed All the Time? This Ancient Method Will Calm You
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July 16, 2022 0
A Stress-relieving Benefit of Spirituality: Easier Decision-making
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July 12, 2022 4
The Best Technique I Know to Quiet Unwanted Thoughts
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July 8, 2022 8
I Lost my Oldest Friend this Week - Shawn Gallagher (1962–2022)
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July 5, 2022 0
Ram Dass’s Wise Teaching on Deciding What to Do With Your Life
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June 30, 2022 4
Letting Go of Our Emotional Baggage is Crucial, but Also Really Hard - Here’s How to Make it Easier
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June 27, 2022 0
A Tip to Help You Let Go of Emotional Baggage
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June 23, 2022 6
3 Words to Stop You from Falling Into a Bad Mood
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June 20, 2022 0
How Mindfulness Made My Lousy Day Less Lousy
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June 16, 2022 0
A Tao Te Ching Gem About Where to Mine for Life’s Gold
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June 13, 2022 0
What I Learned Taking the Ananda Meditation Course -Pro and Con.
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June 9, 2022 0
Why Worrying is the Most Destructive of All Human emotions - And How to Slay it.
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June 5, 2022 0
This Supreme Spiritual Teaching Takes Vigilance to Follow
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June 1, 2022 0
My 1987 Ralph Waldo Emerson Yearbook Quote Took Years for me to Follow
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May 27, 2022 0
Who Are You? You’re a Flashlight - What you’re NOT is your mind.
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May 24, 2022 0
Ram Dass’s Beautiful Teaching About Keeping the Heart Open
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May 21, 2022 0
An Effective Strategy to Use When You Get Upset
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May 18, 2022 0
A Simple Spiritual Exercise That Will Do You and the World a World Of Good
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May 15, 2022 0
5 Life Lessons I Learned From My Dad, Walter B. Gerken - The good, the bad and the funny.
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May 11, 2022 0
Try this Spiritual Exercise: If it’s Gone From the Outside, it’s Gone From the Inside
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May 8, 2022 0
3 Words That Immediately Center Me: Flow With Life
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May 4, 2022 0
My Spiritual Struggle: Resisting Others’ Resistance And my plan for working on it.
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April 30, 2022 0
Ram Dass’s Quote About the Spiritual Path: Be the Captain of Your Ship
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April 26, 2022 0
Thich Nhat Hanh’s Quote About Happiness: It’s About Peace, Not Excitement
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April 22, 2022 0
Mickey Singer has Surrendered for the Past 50 Years — Join me in Trying it for a Day
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April 18, 2022 0
Mickey Singer’s Funny and Accurate Analogy Describing the Spiritual Path
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April 14, 2022 0
Eckhart Tolle’s Teaching That Annoys The Heck Out of Me — Unfortunately, He’s Right
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April 10, 2022 0
Use This Snow Globe Analogy to Help Deal With Adversity
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April 6, 2022 0
Treat Your Moments as You Would a Business Decision -Accept, then act.
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April 2, 2022 0
Why Getting Fired From The West Wing was the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me
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March 29, 2022 0
Eckhart Tolle’s Remarks on Nihilism Illuminated This Invaluable Benefit of Spiritual Pursuits
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March 25, 2022 0
Family Relationships Can be Rough — They’re Also a Goldmine for Spiritual Growth
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March 21, 2022 2
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 2
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 3
What Eckhart Tolle Says is the Only True Purpose of Our Lives
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March 4, 2022 8
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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