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Tantra: The Path of Surrender

In Tantra: The Supreme Understanding, Osho discusses the mystical insights found in the ancient Tantric writings, and the many significant Tantric meditation techniques that are as relevant to the modern-day seeker as they were to those in earlier times.

Tantra is amoral

Morality is concerned with ideals—how you should be, what you should be.

The individual can become aware of this basic split within: that the real has been suppressed and the unreal has been imposed. This is pain, this is s...

What Is It Like To Grow Up With A Terrorist In Your Home?

What is it like to grow up with a terrorist in your home?

Zak Ebrahim, author ofThe Terrorist’s Son: A Story of Choice,was only seven years old when, on November 5th, 1990, his father El-Sayyid Nosair shot and killed the leader of the Jewish Defense League. While in prison, Nosair helped plan the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993. In one of his infamous video messages, Osama bin Laden urged the world to “Remember El-Sayyid Nosair.”

If you’re raised on dogma and hate, can you choose...

Elizabeth Gilbert on Trust

Big Magic digs deep into her own generative process to share her wisdom and unique perspective about creativity. With profound empathy and radiant generosity, she offers potent insights into the mysterious nature of inspiration. She asks us to embrace our curiosity and let go of needless suffering.

The Teaching of Pain

Far too many creative people have been taught to distrust pleasure and to put their faith in struggle alone. Too many artists still believe that anguish is the only truly aut...

Understanding Flow Triggers

Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s famous investigations of “optimal experience” have revealed that what makes an experience genuinely satisfying is a state of consciousness calledflow.

There are seventeen triggers for flow that can each draw your attention to the now. Mastering flow means building these triggers into your life. Two of these triggers are high consequences and deep embodiment. Kotler explains how these triggers enact flow for people ranging from snowboarders to surfers to...

Help Yourself: Learn How to Promote Your Book

Do you have a book in you? Do you want to let it out and offer it to the public for sale? You can produce, publish and promote your book on your own with absolutely no cost.Help Yourself: Learn to Produce, Publish, and Promote your Book on your ownwill show you how to do it all by yourself.

1. GoodReads

GoodReads is the largest book reading website on the internet with thirty five million registered readers as of the start of 2015. In fact, the membership has been growing exponentially the...

All Great Ideas Start With An Empty Brain

Because our state of existence is “limited time only,” it’s vital to seek out meaningful activities to make the most of what little time we have. That’s why it’s important to place your brain’s focus on determining what’s meaningful to you, says artist Maira Kalman.

Most of all, it’s a good idea to develop protocols for thinking. This way, your brain is ready to pursue the truths you seek.

What do you do with an idea?is the story of one brilliant idea and the child who helps to bring it i...

The Five Things We Cannot Change

In The Five Things We Cannot Change, David Richo distills thirty years of experience as a therapist to explain the underlying roots of unhappiness—and the surprising secret to finding freedom and fulfillment.

There are certain facts of life that we cannot change—the unavoidable “givens” of human existence:

(1) Every beginning leads to a finale

The first given of life is that changes and endings are inevitable for any person, relationship, enthusiasm, or thing. Nothing is perfect, permanentl...

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Quote of the day

We need a few trusted naysayers in our lives, critics who are willing to puncture our protective bubble of self-justifications and yank us back to reality if we veer toofar off. This is especially important for people in positions of power.

~CAROL TAVRIS, author of Mistakes were made (but not by me)

SELF-IMPROVEMENT

50 Ways Happier, Healthier, And More Successful People Live On Their Own Terms, Medium| Tweet

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WRITING

7 Ways to Fix a Messy Manuscript, Writer’s Digest| Tweet

The first draft of my YA novel BLANK was a complete disaster. I had taken a random approach to writing it, jotting down whatever I could between diaper changes and other distractions. I tried not to concern myself with structure or plot, thinking I would fix all that “later.” When “later” became hundreds of pages that somewhat resembled a novel, I knew the task ahead of me was not for the faint-hearted. I experimented with...

Kitchen Myths Debunked by Science

J. Kenji López-Alt is a restaurant-trained chef and former Editor at Cook‘s Illustrated magazine, as well as the author ofThe New York Times best-selling cookbook The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science.

In this video, he runs through several examples of kitchen conventional wisdom that aren’t really steeped in wisdom. What’s the best way to peel a boiled egg? How much water should you boil your pasta in? Does searing meat really seal in juices?

The answers might not be what you ex...