Alan Watts – The Dance of Life
Tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present
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Ajahn Chah – Wisdom & Happiness
When we see beyond self, we no longer cling to happiness. And when we stop clinging, we can begin to be happy.
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Pema Chödrön – When Things Fall Apart
"There's nothing wrong with negativity" - Pema Chodron talks on why she became a Buddhist
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Eckhart Tolle on Being Yourself
The "miraculous" state of presence is always available to us...
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Drawing Rome from Memory
Artist, Stephen Wiltshire, draws Rome from memory, after taking just one helicopter ride above the city.
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The Paradox of Choice
Does freedom of choice really bring us happiness? A challenging talk...
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This is Broken…
Why are so many things broken? In a hilarious talk Seth Godin gives a tour of things poorly designed, and how to fix them.
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The Artist’s Way
Julia Cameron, in 'The Artist's Way' describes how paying attention helped to heal the pain of a broken marriage...
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Fruits of the Spirit
Part of the reason he is the way he is, so steadfastly faithful in the small things, and so patient and self-controlled, is that his word and integrity and patience and self-control are all he really has.
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The lady who forgot her shopping
How can we bring mindfulness from meditation practice into ordinary life? A Buddhist monk investigates the nature of awareness...
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The Awakening
There comes a time in your life when you finally get it... Enough fighting and crying or struggling to hold on.
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Not-Knowing is OK
In anyone's life, there are going to be times of not-knowing. That has to be OK...
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The Art of Listening
I want to write about the great and powerful thing that listening is. And how we forget it. And how we don't listen to our children, or those we love. And least of all - which is so important, too - to those we do not love. But we should. Because listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force.
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Strong Enough To Bend
Watching the tree last night, I realized Mother Nature's design is not for us to weather storms alone. Find something to wrap up with and bend.
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This is Water
David Foster Wallace, 1962-2008 ... the real value of real education... has almost nothing to do with knowledge, and everything to do with simple awareness...
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A Stroke Of Insight
A Stroke Of Insight: How Our Mind Works. Jill Bolte-Taylor "...the more time we spend choosing to run the deep inner peace circuitry... the more peaceful our planet will be.."
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The Question
Winter Star Mandala “Why hadn’t he asked me to marry him?” The time and the place were perfect. We’d been together for just over a year. We were deeply in love. We were sitting in a fabulous restaurant after a magical evening listening to the Prague String Quartet. (Bach – my favourite.) We’d had a box (!) in the lavishly decorated Art Nouveau Opera House. The holiday was my Christmas present. By far and...
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