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5 Signs You Are Ready For An Encounter With Your Passion.

The truth is that you are waking up from the nightmare of niceness. You are rising out of the illusion that everything can be healed. You are finally ready to destroy the notion that if only your love is strong enough, everything will be okay.

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The Power of Mutual Exploration & Quiet Reflection.

All of us are lonely these days. People hide in their homes locking their doors. We build fences and walls, create division and root ourselves in pride.

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The Crippling Beauty of the Equinox.

I’ll give myself over to the changing leaves and the cold winds and the shorter days, knowing that this external change is triggering a staggering internal change, just as it does year after year. There’s always the risk that I won’t emerge from my subterranean system of tunnels and catacombs. ...

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The Ending That Looked like the Beginning. {poetry}

I guess maybe it’s because sometimes I still see the look in your eyes the first time I told you when I close mine I played this movie in my mind at least 100 times But, somehow, the ending was different this time.

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What is Faith: Lessons in Intention and Abundance

Right now I, for the second time in my life, am learning how to pray. As I reflect on my previous incarnation as a little girl sitting at the right hand of my mother, prayer was terrible and frightening. She had a fever for the Pentecostal tradition that caused her to yell out Hallelujah during ...

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Anatta 101: I Do Not Exist.

Searching for the self is a meditation that many Buddhists have counted as a centerpiece of practice for thousands of years. Recitation of the Heart of Wisdom Sutra is a daily practice for many Buddhists, including those Tibetans practicing within the Mind Only Middle Way schools. Funny enough, ...

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Stop Trying to Kill Your Ego, Love Her Instead.

There’s all this talk about killing off the ego, as if the same intelligence that holds up the sun and spins the earth made a mistake in giving humans an individuated sense of self, as if this sense somehow precludes our capacity to understand the interconnectedness of all things. You cannot ...

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Freedom From My Inner Critic’s Bullshit — Why I’m Not Fucked.

By Amani Omejer

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The Art of Consciousness — 3 Tips for the Crazy in You.

I wouldn’t recommend the pursuit of consciousness to anyone. I would not have chosen it for myself. I didn’t. It chose me. If it hasn’t called your number yet, don’t worry. It will, eventually. It will draft you from your small life and make impossible demands. You will say,“No.” You will say, ...

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Boredom and the Beauty of Its Emptiness.

For the artist or the writer, the experience of boredom is opportunity knocking: a portal and a guide to revelation, insight and creativity.

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