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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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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Everything’s amazing – nobody’s happy
Louis CK on the miracles of modern life, which we take for granted
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Eckhart Tolle on Being Yourself
The "miraculous" state of presence is always available to us...
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Either we heal now, as a team…
Tony D'Amato (Al Pacino) gives a rousing speech to his team ...
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Find What You Love
Steve Jobs: I'd no idea what to do or how college would help me... I decided to drop out and trust it would work out OK. - it's the best decision I ever made!
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Quotes from HH The Dalai Lama
His Holiness the Dalai Lama is greatly revered in the Buddhist World, as a man of peace and great wisdom. His quotes convey a mixture of great profundity, earthy practicality, and also not a little humour.
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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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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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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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Making Peace with the Imperfect
"It's cracked like this because it's perfectly in line with the Buddha's teaching"
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Choose Your Mantra with Care
Is happiness a choice, or a matter of circumstances and disposition? The Buddhists would say we have a choice, and I agree. A short story by author, Lara Owen
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Counting the Emotional Cost
Having been a Buddhist monk, and now running an IT support business, I find that these two worlds sometimes overlap in surprising ways...
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The Zen Traffic Warrior
I used to be pushing and pushing to get ahead: now I am like a Zen Warrior who knows how to shatter traffic jams as I approach: It's a completely calm existence
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Grace in Receiving
Learning to live Buddhist monastic life with some understanding and balance took many years, but when it was lived with grace and dignity it was beautiful
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