Compulsive thinking is tempting and easy. Presence and vulnerability is not. There really is this constant balance between thinking and Awareness. The mind is a tool you have for your entire life. You can not turn your mind off like you can your phone, but you can learn to turn your attention away from it. If you ...

If you were the supreme Self what would you do? I mean, would you just sit there and be blissfully one and forever and ever and ever? No, obviously not. You would play games. You would, in other words, for the very nature of the fact that I said no energy system is an energy ...

Money is not the only commodity that is fun to give. We can give time, we can give our expertise, we can give our Love or simply give a smile. None of us can ever run out of something worthwhile to give. You feel wonderful during the times when you are able to give. Truly global ...

Every single day is a miracle. Every single day there is something to be grateful for. Every single day small acts of kindness can completely restore someone’s faith in humanity and instantly change their circumstances for the better. Give thanks for not only how lucky you are to be alive, but your ability to be able to ...

Truth is most often used to mean being in accord with fact or reality. The concept of Truth is discussed and debated in several contexts, including philosophy, art, and religion. Many Human activities depend upon the concept, where its nature as a concept is assumed rather than being a subject of discussion; these include most of the sciences, ...

When was the last time you sat down, or took a walk, to think about what makes this one life you have meaningful. What makes it worth living. When was the last time you took a break from solving problems, completing tasks, and pursuing your goals to ask whether those goals were the right ones to ...

You do not see the miracles hidden in nature because without a concerted effort you look at events superficially, on the surface level, without looking deeper. Nature hides the forces that lie beneath. You are living through the here and now, frame by frame, while miracles happen all around you. It is easier to see concealed miracles ...

Whose life are you living. You would love to believe that it is fully your own. You might want to think again. You are wired to seek permission. When you were a kid, you needed permission from parents, teachers and other elders. When you grow up, you seek permission from your bosses and authorities. Your mind ...

Self-reflection is the capacity of Humans to exercise introspection and the willingness to learn more about their fundamental nature, purpose and essence. The earliest historical records demonstrate the great interest which humanity has had in itself. Self-reflection is related to the philosophy of Consciousness, the topic of Awarness, Consciousness in general and the philosophy of mind. In today’s busy World, it is easy to get ...

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 ...