Enlightenment

Jim Carrey, Eckhart Tolle & Friends Entertain and Enlighten at the Saban Theatre

Natalie Pace | Posted 02.08.2012 | Impact

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Some people gave up and left before the superstars took the stage, but those of us who braved the marathon are now meditation masters -- or at least intermediaries. OK, some of us are just zoned out.

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The Simple Life

Arthur Rosenfeld | Posted 02.06.2012 | Healthy Living

Read More: Simplicity, Enlightenment, Materialism, Simplifying Life, Spirituality, Simplify Life, Simplify Your Life, How to Simplify, Mindfulness, Simplify, Simplify Simplify, To Simplify, Healthy Living News

Simplicity is purity. It is facing the true nature of things and embracing it instead of ducking and weaving and dodging, instead of filling a hole inside you with chaotic activity or an overabundance of stuff.

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For the Interim Time...

Miriam Mason Martineau | Posted 02.02.2012 | Healthy Living

I learn to trust that, much like the growth that takes place beneath the earth before a new shoot appears, movement and evolution may rumble below the surface before making an obvious appearance.

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3 Qualifications of a Yoga Teacher

Alanna Kaivalya | Posted 01.31.2012 | Mindful Living

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When we have known great teachers and heeded their instructions, we are able to impart that wisdom to others.

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Over the Hills and Far Away...

Denise M. Wilbanks | Posted 01.26.2012 | Mindful Living

Read More: The Inner Life, Akashic Field, Information Overload, Dreams, Enlightenment, Inner Child, Lucid Dreaming, Consciousness, Video, Mindful Living News

Our culture has a way of fostering the belief that the "grass is always greener on the other side." I find it fascinating that the more we dream about what we want, the more we forget how to really dream.

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Are You Open to Receiving?

Karen Talavera | Posted 01.23.2012 | Mindful Living

Read More: Abundance, Lessons, Enlightenment, Personal Growth, Love, Awakening, Wds, Joy, Conscious Relationships, Mindful Living News

She couldn't help but wonder what it could be -- wonder or dread, she wasn't sure which was the more accurate feeling. He hadn't been much of a gift giver in the past, at least not the recent past.

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Still Seeking 'The Ineffable' in 2012

Elizabeth Boleman-Herring | Posted 01.06.2012 | Healthy Living

Read More: Religion, Rumi, Sufism, Organized Religion, Spirtuality, Churches, Enlightenment, Presbyterianism, Mindfulness, Healthy Living News

"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there." -- Rumi "If you want special illumination, look upon the h...

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The One-Legged "Yogini"

Elizabeth Boleman-Herring | Posted 12.29.2011 | Healthy Living

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You would think that, as an Iyengar-style yoga teacher of three (mere) years' standing, I might at least notice if a one-legged yogini (female yoga student) "walked" into my classroom. Reader, I did not notice.

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Winning Back the Future: Here's How! -- Part 2

Deepak Chopra | Posted 12.29.2011 | Healthy Living

Read More: Religion, Science, Scientific Materialism, Higher Consciousness, Enlightenment, Achieve Success, How Achieve Success, Spirituality and Science, Consciousness, Science and Spirituality, Success in Life, Mindfulness, To Achieve, Spirituality in Science, Healthy Living News

In the first post, the question was raised whether a better future can be imagined out of the dire situation we find ourselves in. At the present moment we rely on science to answer our deepest questions. But science isn't the only way to ask who we are and what we want from life.

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Students Meet Sid -- Siddhartha, That Is!

Claudia Ricci | Posted 02.07.2012 | Books

Read More: Literature, Enlightenment, College Texts, Siddhartha, Classic Books, Spiritual Quest, Books News

If you're on a spiritual quest to find your SELF, or even if you're not, you might enjoy reading Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha.

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Spiritual vs. Material Fulfillment: Who Says You Can't Have Both?

Rod Stryker | Posted 02.06.2012 | Healthy Living

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The standard definition of fulfillment is attainment-oriented, something you feel whenever you satisfy a want or desire, or reach a goal. The more you've desired something, the more of this kind of fulfillment you are likely to experience when it's finally yours. At least for a while.

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Meditation Is A Metaphor For Enlightenment

Andrew Z. Cohen | Posted 01.29.2012 | Religion

Read More: Meditation, Mindfulness, Mindfulness Meditation, Meditation and Enlightenment, Enlightenment, Meditation Practice, Meditation Instructions, Meditation Tips, Religion News

When you meditate, you are consciously choosing to assume the enlightened relationship to your own experience. In order to do this, you can follow three very simple instructions.

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The Voodoos and Don'ts of American Culture

Vaishali | Posted 01.11.2012 | Healthy Living

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May these creative and imaginative means of engaging with life and the mysteries it contains make you a more loving, compassionate, sensitive and insightful being.

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A Longing To Evolve

Andrew Z. Cohen | Posted 01.07.2012 | Healthy Living

Read More: Evolution, Inspiration, Purpose, Awakening, Meaning, Spirituality, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Spiritual Evolution, Spiritual Impulse, Enlightenment, Spirit, Conscious Evolution, Healthy Living News

I believe the spiritual impulse today is calling us toward that big next step we need to take in our world. That next step will not emerge by itself -- it must be consciously created by human beings.

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Western Buddhism: The 50 Year Lessons

Lewis Richmond | Posted 01.04.2012 | Religion

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It's been about 50 years since the bulk of the Asian meditation masters arrived here. Many of us have spent our whole adult lives trying to practice and absorb what they taught us. S

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LISTEN: Songs About The Buddha-To-Be

Ravenna Michalsen | Posted 12.27.2011 | Religion

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Here are two song with imagined lyrical details about Prince Siddhartha's decision to leave his wife, child and kingdom, as well as the training he underwent leading to his eventual experience of awakening.

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Byron Katie: Who Would You Be Without Your Story?

BJ Gallagher | Posted 12.18.2011 | Healthy Living

Read More: Mental Health, Self-Acceptance, Peace of Mind, Self-Love, Enlightenment, Inner Peace, Healthy Living Spirit, Self-Help, Healthy Living News

Stories. We all have them: "My father was a critical perfectionist and I was never good enough to please him." "My mother was jealous and competed wit...

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The Fifth Step Against Terror: Enlightenment

Terry Kelhawk | Posted 11.27.2011 | Religion

Read More: Koran, Islam, War on Terror, Muslim Brotherhood, Terrorism, 9/11 Anniversary, 9/11, Islamic Extremists, Hasan Al Banna, Enlightenment, Koran Burning, Muslim, Peace, Ayman Al-Zawahri, September 11 Anniversary, Religion News

America hasn't always found peaceful alternatives to stop aggression. Since 9//11 we've taken four steps along the path to end terrorism, but haven't yet taken step 5 -- the one with perhaps the greatest potential to de-claw terrorism, and to do it peacefully.

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Do You Discriminate? 4 Ways To Find Out

Isha Judd | Posted 11.26.2011 | Healthy Living

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When we become the love, we embody everything. When we limit ourselves to our personalities and belief systems, there is no room in our boxes for anything else.

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After Don't Ask, Don't Tell: The Meaning of Repeal to America

Nathaniel Frank | Posted 11.20.2011 | Politics

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"Don't ask, don't tell" -- the policy and even the mere phrase -- says much about who we are as Americans. What we do in its wake will help shape what it means to be an American in the twenty-first century -- well beyond the rise and fall of this bizarre and convoluted law.

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What Is Enlightenment?

Ken McLeod | Posted 11.15.2011 | Healthy Living

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"I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question." --Yogi Berra

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Is There More to Love Than Sex and Romance?

Isha Judd | Posted 11.02.2011 | Style

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For most of us, the search for the ideal partner has become an obsession: the principle goal in our quest for love. Yet our relationships often peter ...

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What I've Learned From The Spiritual Masters

Steve McSwain | Posted 08.18.2011 | Religion

Read More: Andre Comte-Sponville, Charla Nash, Enlightenment, Spiritual Evolution, God-Consciousness, Religious Culture, Religious Tolerance, Spiritual Awakening, Spiritual Truth, Spiritual Epiphany, Religion News

You can spend your life seeking to "do" something so as to create within yourself the illusory sense of self-importance. Or you can relax in the awareness you are everything already.

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A Cultural History Of The Word 'Enlightenment'

Lewis Richmond | Posted 10.18.2011 | Religion

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It will be interesting to see how the next generation of Buddhist teachers and practitioners deal with the cultural history (and baggage) of the word "enlightenment."

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A Mysterious Compulsion To Evolve

Andrew Z. Cohen | Posted 10.15.2011 | Religion

Read More: Awareness, Consciousness, Spiritual Journey, Ego, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Andrew Cohen, Evolution, Authentic Self, Enlightenment, Alive, Buddhism, God Impulse, Religion News

When time began, for an unknown reason, something came from nothing. Suddenly, an impulse emerged -- the impulse to become, to create, to evolve.

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