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Meditation & Spirituality

By Robert Kopecky — 2020

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On Wednesdays we will be focusing on Meditation. We will explore different types of meditations, share our meditation practices, discuss benefits of meditation, discuss meditation books, and help each other cultivate and strengthen our own meditation practices. See more...

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How to Bring More Meaning to Dying

Palliative care specialist BJ Miller and Shoshana Berger explain how to bring more meaning and less suffering to the end of life.

BJ Miller, Shoshana Berger

When Your Fears About Dying Are Unhealthy

The fear of death and dying is quite common, and most people fear death to varying degrees. To what extent that fear occurs and what it pertains to specifically varies from one person to another.

FindCenter Quotes Image Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.

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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming the dangers of childbirth, injury, and disease from harrowing to manageable. But when it comes to the inescapable realities of aging and death, what medicine can do often runs counter to what it should.

What's the Use of Suffering

The biggest mistake we can make, according to the Buddha, is to discount or minimize our suffering. Why? Because it is the fiery gate through which we must pass to engage the spiritual path.

Reginald A. Ray

Diamond Heart Book Five: Inexhaustible Mystery

The final volume in A. H. Almaas’ masterwork on the contemporary spiritual path known as the Diamond Approach. From one perspective, we can see ourselves merely as human beings struggling in a crowded and chaotic world of suffering.

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Shift into Freedom: The Science and Practice of Open-Hearted Awareness

Meditation is one of the most important things to learn in order to live a life of joy, health and love. This is a rare meditation book that offers advanced meditations made simple. Loch Kelly goes to the root of suffering by introducing us to the ultimate medicine of awake awareness.

Get Over It!: Thought Therapy for Healing the Hard Stuff

Today, many of us face unprecedented fears about the future, struggle with unspeakable life tragedies, and sink under the belief that certain lives do not matter in our society. Others confront our epidemic of anxiety with fierce resistance, criticizing anyone and everyone just to end up stuck.

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A Lamp in the Darkness: Illuminating the Path Through Difficult Times

When the path ahead is dark, how can we keep from stumbling? How do we make our way with courage and dignity? “Inside each of us is an eternal light that I call ‘the One Who Knows,’ ” writes Jack Kornfield.

Jack Kornfield, Jon Kabat-Zinn (foreword)

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Dark Nights of the Soul: A Guide to Finding Your Way Through Life’s Ordeals

Moore shows how honoring periods of fragility as periods of incubation and positive opportunities to delve into the soul’s deepest needs can provide healing and a new understanding of life’s meaning.

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