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The Human Mosaic of Beauty and Madness: Young Alan Watts on Inner Sanity Amid Outer Chaos

By Maria Popova — 2017

Watts reflects on how an awareness of the reticulated nature of reality and the interconnectedness of all human experience casts any one experience — even the most terrifying — in a wider frame of reference that makes it somehow more bearable. - Maria Popova

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Constant Consciousness

I became extremely serious about meditation practice when I read the following line from the illustrious Sri Ramana Maharshi: “That which is not present in deep dreamless sleep is not real.”

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The Unified Theory of Ram Dass

Despite his age and the effects of a 1997 stroke, Ram Dass still dedicates the bulk of each day to teaching and serving his followers.

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How Lojong Awakens Your Heart

Pema Chödrön’s commentary on Atisha’s famed mind-training slogans that utilize our difficulties and problems to awaken the heart.

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