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Thich Nhat Hanh’s Simple, Powerful Method for Staying Centered

How to Make Boredom Your Ally on the Spiritual Path

A Practice to Help You Snap Back into the Present Moment

The Secret To Life…According to Eckhart Tolle

Trying to Figure Out What You Want Out of Life? Be Sure to Ask Yourself the Right Question

Our Lives Would Improve in Every Way if We Did This One Thing

It’s Imperative to Know That No Pain No Gain is the Name of the Game on the Spiritual Plane

The Translation of “The Tao” is a Teaching Unto Itself – A Big One

Most Relationships Are Based on: ‘You put up with my crap and I’ll put up with yours.’

Mickey Singer’s Funny Metaphor That Captures a Crucial Mistake People Make

Is Being Sensitive Healthy? Yes and No

Michael Singer’s 4 Word Teaching for Dealing With Our Emotional Baggage

The Whole Enchilada in Spirituality is Self-realization - This 3 word cue will help you get there

A Mindfulness Tool That Will Calm You and Raise You

Ram Dass’s Teaching About Opening the Heart: Simple, Beautiful and Hard to Master

Two Metaphors That Describe the Spiritual Path - Awakening and Fog

Obsessing Over Your Macro Life Situation is Futile — Try This Instead

The Valuable Lesson Michael Singer Learned About Dealing With the Mind in His Early Years on the Path

Want Help Letting Go of Egoic Behaviors? Treat Them Like Cold Symptoms

The Indian Saint Ramakrishna Was Asked If He Ever Felt Anger – His Answer Can Help Us All

A Michael Singer Teaching About the Mind That Has Propelled Me Forward

Something We Can all Do to Help Ourselves and the World…Amp Up the Silliness

A Tao te Ching Teaching Keeps Kicking My Butt – But I Keep Working at It

Eckhart Tolle’s Strategy For Dealing With Difficult People

The Best Life Strategy is This: Maximize the Good, Minimize the Bad

Do This One Thing and You’ll Be Set for Life

Most People Don’t Pursue Happiness – But They Think They Do

Michael Singer’s Funny but Powerful Teaching: 24/7 Earphones for All

We Can Fuel Our Lives with Different Types of Energy: The Soul Thrives on One of Them

You can Be Happy, but Only if You Know About this Choice

Exploring the Nature of Consciousness Will Expel Tons of Worry From Your Being

Understanding the Title of Mickey Singer’s Bestselling Book is a Teaching in Itself

This Michael Singer Teaching About Dealing with Emotional Upset Has Helped Me Immeasurably

My Worst Career Setback Was the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me

We Humans are Like Highly Complex Computers…Minus One Critical Component

Treat Your Ego as You Would a Toddler Having a Meltdown

This Michael Singer Quote Sums Up His Teachings in one Sentence

Use This One Line From the Tao Te Ching to Guide Your Life

Do You Always Feel Overwhelmed? You Don't Have To

Does it Feel Like Your Life is One Big Tug of War Pitting You Against the World?

There's a Helpful and an Unhelpful Way of Dealing with Your Ego

Krishnamurti’s Beautiful Passage About Comprehending the Great Mysteries of Life

Don’t Complicate Spiritual Work, Folks: All it is is Working With Our Minds

Carl Jung’s Wise Insight About People Who Irritate Us

Ramana Maharshi’s Main Teaching is so Simple and All Encompassing it Makes My Head Explode

Ram Dass’s Wise Teaching on Deciding What to Do With Your Life

If You Want to Be Happy, You Need to Make This Paradigm Shift

The Teaching on Love Ram Dass Received From His Guru, Maharaji

Hope Can be Necessary – But Most of the Time, it’s Not

This Brilliant Observation About Meditation Unlocks the Key to Life - I'll Tell You How to Use it

Dealing With a Parent in Declining Health is Brutal – Use My Experiences to help You in Yours

If You Want to Grow, You Need to Understand Humanity's Core Problem