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A path makes things make sense.
When you see your life as a path, it feels different than just being a period before death. And that's because it will be different. It will more…
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Jeffrey Stevens
Everybody needs a teacher, because we don't have enough time to do it alone.
We love the feeing of self sufficiency. But if we don't see that some things require help, we miss out. And some things, like meditative experience, are…
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Awareness: it's not what you know, it's how you know
Awareness is the destination, mind was the road to the destination. You can actually leap directly into the destination if you have the know how...and…
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Mind is a little word for a big thing.
Meditation works with the mind. But in meditation cultures, mind means more than it means to non-meditation cultures like ours. See how their version of…
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Jeffrey Stevens
Meditation is a fragile word. Use carefully.
The frenzy of half-baked meditation ideas flooding the media has sidelined an important concept that many of us have been searching for our entire…
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Mindfulness: it's been a rough 30 years
Mindfulness is an important component of a bigger system of mental cultivation. It isn't much of anything on its own, which is why it has become a…
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