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Flow is the Way Forward

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From the Editor Decades from now, textbooks describe the early 21st century as a time of unparalleled earth changes, widespread collapse of global financial markets, as well as incredible technological innovations in social networking and medical science. The texts inform students that there were mass casualties due to war and natural disaster, and topics of the day ranged from terrorism to safe food and drinking water. But teachers, knowing full well that history books only tell part of … [Read more...]

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A Resolution to love yourself just as you are

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A new year has begun. You think, with a sigh, that you haven't lost those 20 pounds, you're still working at the same unfulfilling job and you are still in the same power struggle with your wife/husband/lover/child/yourself. Where did the possibilities go? A client recently said to me, "I have to make a New Year's resolution to stop procrastinating, but I'm better at breaking them than making them. Is there a trick to making a good New Year's Resolution? There is no trick, except in the … [Read more...]

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Play the Mistake

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Just before Christmas last year, Rob Anderson went into a convenience store to purchase three $1 Powerball lottery tickets as stocking stuffers. The clerk misunderstood Anderson's request and erroneously printed one $3 ticket. When Anderson called the mistake to the clerk's attention, the clerk offered to nullify the ticket. Anderson decided to just go with the current of events, he accepted the ticket, and purchased the three stocking stuffers in addition. Rob went home and tossed the mistaken … [Read more...]

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Immersed in the Sea of the World

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Sciandra

There is a yearning we have as humans, to join with the flow and essence of the world around us. It creates a nostalgia for something we know we've experienced, yet cannot put a name to. There is a longing to be part of the greater whole. It is nearly impossible to walk to the edge of the ocean and not to kick off your shoes in order to wade in and let the waves lick against your ankles, to find a path in the woods and not take it, to come to a hill and not climb it. I grew up near Niagara … [Read more...]

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In the Presence of your True Self

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The struggle to get better, the struggle to correct things about ourselves that we judge or don't like, the effort to push up against perceived bad traits or laziness in ourselves and perceived "others," while laudatory in many ways, keeps us firmly lodged within the world of resistance. Even if we resist for what we deem to be a "good" purpose, it is still resistance, and thus lies firmly in the world of the ego-mind. The core rationale of the ego-mind is that it will protect us by keeping us … [Read more...]

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