Reading Time: 6 minutesOne of the most vague and misunderstood terms in the modern self-help lexicon is the term conscious. One source of this confusion lies behind the multiple meanings behind the word. To the uninitiated, the term conscious simply means the opposite of unconscious, whether it be a person who is asleep, in a coma, or just got […]
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Reading Time: 6 minutesOne of the worst things to ever happen to the Western view of love was when a group of psychologists came together and decided to refer to close relationships as attachment bonds. It all started in the 1930s, when a researcher by the name of John Bowlby observed that our family experience has a
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Reading Time: 6 minutesMany years ago, at the beginning of my spiritual path, when I was exploring big concepts of God, love, and consciousness, I remember coming across the following passage: Form is emptiness, and emptiness is form. Form is not other than emptiness, emptiness is not other than form. The passage comes from the The Heart Sūtra,
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Reading Time: 5 minutesI recently had an amazing conversation on the Learn to Love Podcast with Jennie Lee, a fellow yoga teacher and author. We talked about what it means to not just feel love, but to become love; to breathe it into our entire being. She explained love is the harmonizing energy of the universe, and if
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Reading Time: 5 minutesThe first noble truth of Buddhism is simply dukkha–the reality of suffering. Though it is often translated as life is suffering, I prefer to think of it as the plain observation that there is suffering in the world. There is small s suffering–spilling your morning coffee on your lap while driving in traffic–and big S
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Reading Time: 7 minutesEvery couple experiences conflict. It is an inevitable fact of life that when two people meet, there are going to be challenges. That is because every relationship is a meeting of two previously separate and distinct worlds. One person prefers things a bit messy, the other needs cleanliness. One person is a night owl, another
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Reading Time: 5 minutesOne of the most profound and simultaneously challenging insights on the spiritual path is that our mind is inherently dual in its thinking and there are nondual ways to be in the world. To make things even more interesting, there is the common teaching that when we do experience even the slightest hint of nondual
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Reading Time: 5 minutesIn the singer Amanda Palmer’s TED talk on The Art of Asking, she talks about working as a living statue and handing out flowers to passersby. She shares how impactful it was to share silent eye contact with a stranger. With her eyes she would try to say, “I see you,” and their eyes would
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Reading Time: 6 minutesLast week, I wrote about the basic idea that you cannot love someone and try to change them at the same time, because if you are trying to change someone, you aren’t really loving them; you are just loving parts of them. I also mentioned that this perspective also puts us on a path to
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Reading Time: 4 minutesImagine laying in bed with your lover/partner/spouse/boyfriend/girlfriend/FWB, and you ask them, “Honey, do you love me?” And even though you already know this person loves you and you have already heard them tell you countless times, in this moment, you want to hear it; hearing their answer will help you feel more connected and less
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