Reading Time: 5 minutes There are a number of insightful stories in spiritual communities that involve looking at the same situation from three different perspectives. Sometimes there are three people meeting the same challenge, sometimes there is one person going through the same task three different times. Usually the first two parts of the story represent two extremes, and […]
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Reading Time: 8 minutes Last week, I covered five questions for re-igniting your sex life, because I love questions. I think one of the most important things we can do in our lives is pause and reflect on what really matters. For me, living a spiritual life involves deep reflection and contemplation of the universe and my role in
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Reading Time: 8 minutes I have written a lot in the past few weeks about love. I believe we are here on this planet to love, to discover the love within ourselves as we explore and cultivate love outside ourselves. I may be biased, but all my research and exploration in the world has returned me again and again
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Reading Time: 7 minutes Whenever I hear the very important lesson that “every human being wants to be happy, and no one wants to be in pain,” I agree… mostly. On the one hand, this axiom is an incredible help in coming to a shared understanding of our common humanity. We can use the principle that everyone wants to
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Reading Time: 5 minutes One of the greatest misconceptions I have found about the practice of meditation is that it is supposed to be easy. A huge reason for this is the abundance of workshops, classes, and apps that advertise meditation as simply a relaxation technique. Many people are even told by their meditation teachers that all they need
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Reading Time: 6 minutes Humans have always had an interesting relationship with being right, despite how wrong we are about most things all the time. On a societal level, we disagree about just how right our leaders need to be. Politicians who change their ideas are derided as weak “flip-floppers” rather than as individuals who saw a change in
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Reading Time: 6 minutes One 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: 7 minutes If you practice in a meditation community for any period of time, it will not be long before you hear a reference to the monkey mind. The monkey mind is a concept used to describe how the mind behaves, which is typically pretty erratic. It jumps from one thought branch to another thought branch, endlessly
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Reading Time: 5 minutes In 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: 7 minutes The experience of love tends to have two sides. The first side says that love is the most beautiful, powerful, and meaningful experience on the planet. This side is bolstered by research that says humans are literally born for love: we are social beings, we thrive on social connection, and we need to feel a
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