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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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It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for a bird to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

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Life’s Last Gift: Giving and Receiving Peace When a Loved One Is Dying

After four decades of training volunteers to sit at the bedsides of the dying, psychologist and Shanti founder Charles Garfield has created an essential guide for friends, family, and healthcare professionals who want to ease someone’s final days but don’t know where to begin.

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Focusing

The classic guide to a powerful technique that can increase your mindfulness and lead to personal transformation. The focusing technique consists of six easy-to-master steps that identify and change the way thoughts and emotions are held within the body.

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Transforming Compulsion -- Facing Defense Mechanisms from Conscious Awareness | Jon Bernie

Nondual spiritual teacher Jon Bernie describes the three primary ways we compulsively struggle with our experience -- pulling it towards us, pushing it away, and trying to understand it -- and the falling away of these dynamics as we learn to fully allow the condition as it arises in the space of...

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Being is Your Natural Ease of Awareness | Jon Bernie | Meditation for Relaxation & Healing

At this San Francisco meditation gathering, former Zen monk and nondual spiritual teacher and author Jon Bernie gives a short guided meditation and speaks on healing, the spiritual practice of being present, meditating with a relaxed attentiveness, spiritual transmission, heart awakening, spiritual...

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I Am Peace, Om Shanti Special Edition | Meditation Mantra | Sister Jenna and Ricky Kej

A labor of love. This features celebrities and children sharing I am peace, and I am om shanti as this births a movement of peace.

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Life’s work is to wake up, to let the things that enter into the circle wake you up rather than put you to sleep. The only way to do this is to open, be curious, and develop some sense of sympathy for everything that comes along, to get to know its nature and let it teach you what it will.

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20 Things I Know for Sure: Principles for Cultivating a Peaceful Life

Simple Truths for a Peaceful Life A collection of contemplations on life, spirituality, and peace of mind from a much-loved self-help author. Cultivating a Path Toward Peace. When Karen Casey chose to commit to a spiritual path, her direction in life changed.

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52 Ways to Live the Course in Miracles: Cultivate a Simpler, Slower, More Love-Filled Life

Use Karen Casey’s 52 positive affirmations and meditations to find inner peace. We all face struggles that can leave us feeling broken and hopeless. But peace and healing are always available to us if we are open to them.

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Peace a Day at a Time: 365 Meditations for Wisdom and Serenity

A Meditation-A-Day to Aid the Addiction 12-Step Recovery Process Help in staying centered and finding inner peace. Karen Casey’s daily meditation book Peace a Day at a Time offers 365 reminders to help strengthen those traveling the path to recovery from addiction.

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