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The Link Between Self-Reliance and Well-Being

By Arthur C. Brooks — 2021

Done right, individualism has tremendous benefits for our senses of competence, effectiveness, and life direction.

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Don’t Take It Personally!

Don’t take anything personally. This agreement gives you immunity in the interaction you have with the secondary characters in your story. You don’t have to concern yourself with other people’s points of view.

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don Jose Ruiz
2010
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Oh Tara, Protect Us

Vajrayana practitioners supplicate deities and buddhas to help clear obstacles on the path. In this teaching, Thubten Chodron comments on a prayer to the buddha Tara to protect us from the eight dangers.

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Thubten Chodron
2021
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Raise the Lamp of Liberty! Declare Your Inner Independence

We may live in a democratic society, but unless we are free of the inner bondage of fear and separation, we are not truly free.

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Alan Cohen
2014
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How to Find Inner Freedom

For many of us on a spiritual path we go back and forth between separate states of consciousness and divine states.

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Sandra Ingerman
2011
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What Makes Us Free?

Insight. Loving-kindness. Cultivating what’s wholesome. And making them real in our lives every day. These are what make us free, say Insight Meditation teachers Jack Kornfield and Joseph Goldstein.

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Joseph Goldstein and Jack Kornfield
2013
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Sister Joan Chittister on Freedom in Our Later Years

As we grow older, we no longer need to “fit in” but are free to be ourselves and explore new ideas.

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Joan Chittister
2014
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