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July 3, 2016
How Imagination and Intelligence Work Together in the Brain
The great myth of the left brain versus right brain personality[image error] types has been popular for years. Even comedian Bo Burnham has turned this classic cliché into a successful song for his tour. As the story goes, the left brain is reserved for logic, analytics, and other brow-furrowing things, while the right brain is all about being creative. So a person who was very creative would say, oh, I’m right-brained, while someone who is more into scheduling would say, I’m left-brained.
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Encountering The One Mind
In One Mind, New York Times best-selling author Larry Dossey, M.D., proposes an inspiring view of consciousness that may reshape our destiny.
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Encountering the One Mind
We may experience the One Mind in a variety of ways. Think of the One Mind as a desert spring where we go to drink. We may arrive at the spring alone and have a solitary experience. Or we may meet another individual there, a group of individuals, or perhaps a throng. Just so, when we “drink” of the One Mind, the experience m...
June 30, 2016
LinkFest ~ Best Reads on Writing, Screenwriting & Self-Publishing: Writing Is Rewriting
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June 29, 2016
Three Visionary Scientists Who Embraced Limitations to Have Creative Outbursts
Many procrastinators have claimed that ever-closer deadlines help them focus [image error]and enforce creativity. There may be something to that. Not quite the procrastination, but the forced wall of immovability restricting them that gets gears going. For proof, get your hands on a copy of The Five Obstructions, a documentary where experimental Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier inflicts five restrictions on his filmmaking mentor and friend Jørgen Leth, pushing him to make the same short film five times in...
Taking Charge Of Yourself
If you’re plagued by guilt or worry and find yourself unwittingly falling into th[image error]e same old self-destructive patterns, then you have “erroneous zones” – whole facets of your approach to life that act as barriers to your success and happiness.
A constant companion: Your-Own-Death
Look over your shoulder. You will notice a constant companion. For want of a better name, call him Your-Own-Death. You can fear this visitor or use him for your personal gain. The choice is up to you. With death so...
June 28, 2016
Think You’ve Found Happiness? Then You Haven’t.
Robert Thurman, author of Inifinite Life, contends that true happine[image error]ss occurs when we’re least aware of it.
Question: What is real happiness and how do we know when we have it?
Robert Thurman: Actually, we don’t know when we have it. That’s the great thing about it. Real happiness is that which comes up right out of your own self when you let goof striving for happiness—peak sexual experience, peak meditative experience, delicious food, friendly conversation: when you forget about yourself a...
What Is Stillness?
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In Stillness Speaks, Eckhart Tolle illuminates the fundamental elements of his teaching,addressing the needs of the modern seeker by drawing from all spiritual traditions.
When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world. Your innermost sense of self, of who you are, is inseparable from stillness. This is the I Am that is deeper than name and form.
Stillness is your essential nature.
What is stillness?...
June 27, 2016
Ending Violence Against Women
Layli Miller-Muro shares with us how she began the Tahirih Justice Ce[image error]nter, an organization dedicated to helping women who seek political asylum due to gender-based persecution. Miller-Muro is the co-author of Do They Hear You When You Cry ?
[image error]All throughout my life I’ve had a strong interest in justice issues. I grew up in the South outside of Atlanta and there at very young ages I was exposed to some severe racism and became dedicated to trying to address it. I ended up working for the Marti...
What Does The Happiest Man In the World Look Like?
With Search Inside Yourself, Chade-Meng Tan, one of Google’s earliest engi[image error]neers and personal growth pioneer, offers a proven method for enhancing mindfulness and emotional intelligence in life and work.
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He certainly does not look like me. In fact, he looks like a bald French guy in Tibetan robes. His name is Matthieu Ricard. Matthieu was born and grew up in France. In 1972, after completing his Ph.D. in molecular genetics at the Institut Pa...
June 26, 2016
Events and Encounters Explain Our Fear of Falling in Love
Slavoj Žižek takes us through some of the concepts presented in his book, “Ev[image error]ent.” The philosopher and social critic explains what events are, how they necessarily create their own causes, and why they explain the 21st century fear of falling in love.[image error]
What’s an event. It’s a difficult question not because we lack definitions but because there are too many definitions. In my book I focus on event in the sense of something extraordinary takes place. But with all this wide span of what we c...
