Lesson 1: Keep an Open Mind - One area in which Tolstoy excelled was the ability and willingness to change his mind based on new experiences. It was a skill he began nurturing in the 1850's when he was an army officer. Tolstoy fought in the siege of Sebastopol during the Crimean War, a horrific experience ...

The mind is divided into two aspects, the conscious and the subconscious mind. The conscious mind is made up of your surface thoughts, wishes, desires and aspirations. The subconscious mind is the realm of your automatic and habitual thought patterns and beliefs – the stuff you do when you do not even know you are doing ...

Change – and everything is change; nothing can be held on to – to the degree that you go with a stream, you see, you are are still, you are flowing with it. But to the degree you resist the stream, then you notice that the current is rushing past you and fighting you. So ...

With climate change, overdue asteroid strikes, epidemics and population growth, our own planet is increasingly precarious. We are now consuming Earth’s resources at a very alarming rate to support our industries and daily needs and this is leading us towards a future where we have depleted all of Earth’s resources. Even though some of our resources ...

At this very moment, the Earth is above you, below you, all around you, and even inside you. The Earth is everywhere. You may be used to thinking of the Earth as only the ground beneath your feet. But the water, the sea, the sky, and everything around you comes from the Earth. Everything outside you ...

On dark days, the sun still rises. In the darkest night, the moon still shines in a sky of stars. On a day of global sorrow, somebody will be born and her parents will be glad. And so it goes, if you have a wedding, rejoice. If today is your birthday, do not be afraid to celebrate. ...

There is nothing more rewarding in life than helping others to achieve their goals and to make their dreams come true. There is an awesome feeling that you get when you pass on what you have learned throughout the years to someone who is just coming up. This is called planting a seed in someone's life. It is ...

We were hunters and foragers. The frontier was everywhere. We were bounded only by the Earth, and the ocean, and the sky. The open road still softly calls. Our little terraqueous globe as the madhouse of those hundred thousand millions of Worlds. We, who cannot even put our own planetary home in order, riven with ...

The easiest way to get into the meditative state is to begin by listening. If you simply close your eyes and allow yourself to hear all of the sounds that are going on around you. Just listen to the general Hum and Buzz of the World as if you were listening to music. Don’t try ...

You want your life to matter. You want to live a satisfying, fulfilling, and purposeful life. This is not just a selfish desire. The feeling of a certain amount of significance in your life is healthy. It is good for your experience. There is a healthy satisfaction that comes from contributing to the World around you. ...

I wonder, I wonder, what you would do if you had the power to dream at night any dream you wanted to dream and you would of course be able to alter your time sense, and slip, say 75 years of subjective time into 8 hours of sleep. You would, I suppose, start out by fulfilling ...

Time is the indefinite continued progress of existence and events that occur in apparently irreversible succession from the past through the present to the future. Ancient cultures such as Incan, Mayan, Hopi, and other Native American Tribes - plus the Babylonians, Ancient Greeks, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and others - have a concept of a wheel of ...

New Age is a compilation of metaphysical, eastern influenced thought systems. These thought systems unite theology, nature, and philosophy. This movement comprises countless theologies that often center on religious tolerance and moral diversity. The main phrases that reveal the focal point of New Age thought are feel-good, moral relativism, and pluralism. The phrase New Age refers to the ...

What I think an awakening really involves, is a re-examination of our common sense. We've got all sorts of ideas built into us, which seem unquestioned, obvious. And our speech reflects them; its commonest phrases. 'Face the facts.' As if they were outside you. As if life were something they simply encountered as a foreigner. 'Face the ...