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There is a Beauty Within You #12: Paradise Wasn't Lost, It Was Abandoned

Bob Lingvall | Posted 11.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Awareness, Relationships, Personality, Mindfulness, Self-Awareness, Cult, Meditation, Self-Esteem, Compassion, Self-Help, Self-Realization, The Inner Life, Living News
Bob Lingvall

We are ready to believe and follow, giving up freedom for power, justice for security, love for righteousness, allowing culture to become cult.

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Negativity: The Path Of The Unattractive

Natasha Dern | Posted 11.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Wisdom, Mind.Body.Soul, Living News, Self Realization, The Shadow, Living, The Inner Life, Self Development, Spirituality, Living News
Natasha Dern

In Jungian Psychology, your negative state of mind is referred to as 'The Shadow.' This aspect of yourself is why much of your life is the way it is. If not recognized it will create and attract harmful situations in life.

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Feminine Power: Mystical Radiance Is What You Want

Natasha Dern | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Spirituality, Feminine Power, Mind.Body.Soul, Wisdom, Women, Self Development, The Inner Life, Self Realization, Happiness, Living News
Natasha Dern

In society, we are taught from a young age to grow up and be the perfect woman. We are expected to do it all and if we can't do it all, there is something wrong with us.

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There is a Beauty Within You #11: Are You More Than Culture Can Speak

Bob Lingvall | Posted 11.13.2009 | Living

Read More: Awareness, Relationships, Personality, Mindfulness, Self-Awareness, Meditation, Self-Esteem, Compassion, Self-Help, Self-Realization, Living News
Bob Lingvall

Self-awareness is a very mysterious phenomenon. How is it that matter can be self-aware? Is matter somehow creating you and me?

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10 Sure Fire Ways to Make Your Life 100 Times Better

B. Jeffrey Madoff | Posted 10.29.2009 | Living

Read More: Relationship Advice, Youth, Wealth, Corporate Responsibility, Sex, Books, Self-Confidence, Self-Improvement, Self-Esteem, Business, Confidence, Self-Help, Self-Realization, Living News
B. Jeffrey Madoff

My grandmother was a wise woman. She would tell me, "Live each day, one at a time." When I asked her how else you could live, she would take a sip from the flask under her apron and shrug her shoulders.

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There Is a Beauty Within You #10: When Love and Awareness Meet

Bob Lingvall | Posted 10.28.2009 | Living

Read More: Awareness, Relationships, Personality, Mindfulness, Self-Awareness, Meditation, Self-Esteem, Compassion, Self-Help, Self-Realization, Yoga, Living News
Bob Lingvall

Immersed in the most personal of personal loves, we are a point of awareness in an ocean of compassionate love; a butterfly on the back of a whale preparing to dive.

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Balanced Life -- A Secret to Happiness: Don't Try to Keep Your Resolution

Gretchen Rubin | Posted 10.26.2009 | Living

Read More: Friendship, The Balanced Life, Entertaining, Resolutions, Happiness, Self-Realization, Living News
Gretchen Rubin

One of my Secrets of Adulthood (cribbed from Niels Bohr) is "The opposite of a great truth is also true." So whenever I'm very convinced that something is true, I ask myself, "Is the opposite also true?"

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There Is a Beauty Within You #9: Mom Became Like the Sweetness of the Chocolates

Bob Lingvall | Posted 10.22.2009 | Living

Read More: Dementia, Neuroscience, Mindfulness, Self-Awareness, Meditation, Identity, Spirituality, Death, Self-Realization, The Inner Life, Living News
Bob Lingvall

Mom became like the sweetness of the chocolates she would eat. The dementia her sculptor, releasing the angel within, chiseling away memories, opinions, and beliefs until only her gentle presence remained.

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There Is A Beauty Within You #9: Mom Became Like The Sweetness Of The Chocolates

Bob Lingvall | Posted 10.15.2009 | Living

Read More: Meditation, Self-Esteem, Personality, Mindfulness, Self-Awareness, Self-Help, Self-Realization, Dementia, Death, The Inner Life, Living News
Bob Lingvall

The death of a loved one, and in a special way a parent, opens up space for self-reflection. Death asks, "Are you living a good life?" Dementia tries to help us answer.

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Balanced Life -- Have Trouble Keeping Your Resolutions? Here Are Six Tips

Gretchen Rubin | Posted 10.08.2009 | Living

Read More: Resolutions, Happiness Project, Self-Realization, Happiness, Inside DC, Living News
Gretchen Rubin

One thing I've discovered from doing my happiness project is - no surprise - it's easy to make a resolution, but it's not always easy to keep a resolution.

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There Is a Beauty Within You #8: Where Neuroscience and Mystical Intuition Converge

Bob Lingvall | Posted 12.02.2009 | Living

Read More: Mysticism, Neuroscience, Self-Awareness, Self-Realization, Living News
Bob Lingvall

You are not the idea or image in your head others can try to distort with their criticisms and complaints. You are a point of silent awareness whose nature appears as peace, bliss, and compassion.

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There Is a Beauty Within You #7: Where Is This Self of Soap Opera and Love Song?

Bob Lingvall | Posted 11.22.2009 | Living

Read More: Meditation, Identity, Mindfulness, Spirituality, Self-Realization, Living News
Bob Lingvall

Where is this self that demands so much time and attention, fixing and cajoling, encouraging and pampering?

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There Is a Beauty Within You #5: I Am Silent Awareness

Bob Lingvall | Posted 11.08.2009 | Living

Read More: Meditation, Meditation Practice, Spirituality, Self-Realization, Living News
Bob Lingvall

Let's begin the work of reducing our attachment to the idea of "I" by engaging in experiences of awareness using our spiritual sculpting tools of silence, service, inquiry and intention.

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Three Things To Do When You Don't Know What To Do

Paula Forman and Jeff Johnson | Posted 09.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Baby Boomers, Mid-Life Crisis, Reinvent, Reinvention, Change, Daily Life, Lifestyle, Routine, Inner Life, Self-Confidence, Self-Improvement, Self-Help, Self-Realization, Living News
Paula Forman and Jeff Johnson

The idea is to open yourself to experiences you have avoided in the past. You will see different things and meet different people and have different things to say.

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What Religion Are You?

Tom Matlack | Posted 09.07.2009 | Living

Read More: Religion, Fatherhod, Faith, Dogs, Jews, Buddhist, Finding God, Christians, Self-Reflection, Muslim, Quakers, Self-Realization, Living News
Tom Matlack

"What religion are you?" my 13 year-old son Seamus asked me last night. His mother and I have been divorced since he was six months old. He's grown up a strict Catholic. I was born a Quaker.

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The Balanced Life -- Quiz: Are You Drifting?

Gretchen Rubin | Posted 08.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Career, Work, Happiness Project, Self-Realization, Happiness, Living News
Gretchen Rubin

A few weeks ago, I wrote about the problem of "drift" - the decision you make by not deciding, or by making a decision that unleashes consequences for...

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Twitter: Revolutionizing Information or High School All Over Again?

Soren Gordhamer | Posted 08.20.2009 | Media

Read More: Twittering, Self-Improvement, Twitter, The Buddha, Wisdom 2.0, Tweets, Self-Realization, Media News
Soren Gordhamer

Many people see Twitter as a democratizing tool that will radically change how people share and receive information online. Others see it as the epitome of self-promotion run amok.

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If the Buddha Used Twitter . . .

Soren Gordhamer | Posted 08.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Twitter, The Buddha, Wisdom 2.0, Twittering, Self-Improvement, Tweets, Self-Realization, Living News
Soren Gordhamer

Buddha would encourage us to use everything, including Twitter, not to distract ourselves from what is important, but to remember it and to do our work on this earth impeccably.

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Ask Maddisen - How to Recognize and Claim Your Greatness

Maddisen K. Krown | Posted 07.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Meditation, Support Groups, Forgiveness, Self-Help, Self-Care, Self-Realization, Life Coaching, Living News
Maddisen K. Krown

We sometimes project seemingly offensive or undesired qualities onto others to remind ourselves of something we are lacking or of something else we'd rather become.

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What's Your Story?

James M. Lynch | Posted 07.18.2009 | Living

Read More: Self-Improvement, Self-Esteem, Journaling, Personal Growth, Self-Realization, Self-Help, Living News
James M. Lynch

Write out the story of you as you are and don't be afraid to complain a bit. Think about it as a narrator at the beginning of story bringing the audience up to speed so that we can begin the movie.

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Why Have The Beatles Returned to Maharishi?

Steve Posner | Posted 05.03.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: The Beatles, Happiness, Ringo Starr, Enlightenment, Self-Realization, Paul McCartney, Spiritual Awakening, Transcendental Meditation, Suffering, Rishikesh, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Gurus, David Lynch, Entertainment News
Steve Posner

Four decades after their Himalayan sojourn, the surviving Beatles' public return to Maharishi was easy because his teachings had never left them.

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Motorcycles, Bicycles, and the Power of Choice

Arthur Rosenfeld | Posted 02.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Meditation, Motorcycles, Values, Bicycles, Exercise, Happiness, Self-Realization, Alternative Transportation, Biking, Transportation, Living News
Arthur Rosenfeld

Every day when I mounted my motorcycle I knew it might be my last, and when I got home safely I breathed an enormous sigh of relief that I had lived another day.

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Want Success? Change Your Attitude and Be Shameless!

Michelle Renee | Posted 09.27.2008 | Living

Read More: Success, Positive Thinking, Homeless Teen, Held Hostage, Michelle Renee, Self-Improvement, Self-Esteem, Tips for Success, Happiness Tips, Happiness, Self-Realization, Living News
Michelle Renee

Since our actions are based on our attitude towards any given situation, attitude must be considered one of the key ingredients for success, not just in business but in recovery, relationships and life in general.

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Obama, Patriotism, and Enlightenment

Steve Posner | Posted 08.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Nationalism, Islam, Afghanistan, Enlightened, Taliban, Spiritual Path, Christian, Enlightenment, America, Self-Realization, Hindu, Patriotism, Barack Obama, Consciousness, Buddhist, Germany, Values, Jewish, Veda, Religion and Politics, Meditation, Israel, Europe, Muslim, Spirituality, Berlin, Politics News
Steve Posner

Why was Obama waxing patriotic during his foreign trip instead of touting a universal spirituality that removes the need to make cultural and political distinctions?

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A Woman's Journey To Wholeness

Michelle Renee | Posted 07.20.2008 | Living

Read More: Spiritual Retreats, Self Esteem, Spirituality, Womans Journey to Wholeness Retreats, Self-Realization, Living News
Michelle Renee

Somewhere we lose sight of our wholeness and of our holiness. We begin to look in the outer world for something to fill the void that is gaping open i...

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