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Have You Ever Asked Yourself What You Are Searching For?

In Intimacy: Trusting Oneself and the Other,this gentle and compassionate guide, Osho takes his readers step-by-step through what makes people afraid of intimacy, how to encounter those fears and go beyond them, and what they can do to nourish themselves and their relationships to support more openness and trust.

Have you ever made it a point of deep meditation to know what you are searching for?

Life is a search–a constant search, a desperate search, a search for something one knows not wh...

Be Mindful. Be Kind. Be Patient.

The Venerable Losang Samten, author of Ancient Teachings in Modern Times Buddhism in the 21st Centurya renowned Tibetan scholar and a former Buddhist monk, stresses the virtues of being mindful, kind, and patient.

Be Mindful

When we are more mindful we get a joy. In a way, the seed of the mindfulness, we all have that. We don’t have to buy that from somewhere else. Not necessarily finding for the enlightenment or [a] spiritual reason, in a sense, but whether we [are] a believer or non-belie...

WEEKEND LINKS ~ Reads on Writing, Self-Publishing, and Better Living: The Tragedy Of Learning

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Keep those faces in mind, the little girls and boys in the early grades, all trusting the adults to show them the way, all eager and excited about life and what will come next, and then just follow those faces over time. Follow the face of a little girl who doesn’t read very well and is told to try harder; who tends to daydream and is told she better pay attention; who talks out in class when she sees something fascinating, lik...

Imagination Is Not Longer For Fairy Tales

What have you got to lose? If you aim for the stars you might just get there. Sometimes it pays off to think BIG and Richard Newton is here to get us thinking on a bigger scale than we ever imagined.

Short and punchy with quick tips and inspiring graphics, The Little Book of Thinking Bigwill have your imagination, creativity and determination firing on all cylinders.

Not long ago you knew what to expect

You were born in the town or village where you would die and in between those two events...

The Science of Tsunamis

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Addressing questions most ocean visitors have had and offering new ones for our consideration,The Science of Ocean Waves: Ripples, Tsunamis, and Stormy Seasexplains in accessible language how waves are formed, how they move, how they become huge and destructive, and how they’re being studied now for clues that will help us plan for the future.

The immense swell of a tsunami can grow up to 100 feet, hitting speeds over 500 mph — a treacherous c...

THURSDAY LINKS ~ Reads on Writing, Self-publishing and Better Living: Man’s Search For Meaning

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When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves. ~VIKTOR FRANKL, author ofMan’s Search for Meaning

WRITING

Homme de Plume: What I learned sending my novel out under a male name, Jezebel | Tweet

The plan made me feel dishonest and creepy, so it took me a long time to send my novel out under a man’s name. But each time I read a study about unconscious bias, I got a little closer to trying...

Turning the Mind Into an Ally

Strengthening, calming, and stabilizing the mind is the essential first step in accomplishing nearly any goal. Growing up American with a Tibetan twist, Sakyong Mipham talks to Westerners as no one can: in idiomatic English with stories and wisdom from American culture and the great Buddhist teachers. Turning the Mind Into an Allymakes it possible for anyone to achieve peace and clarity in their lives.

Why meditate?

Many of us are slaves to our minds. Our own mind is our worst enemy. We try...

David Foster Wallace On Learning How to Think

This is the commencement address David Foster Wallace gave to the graduates of Kenyon College in 2005. It captures his electric mind, and also his humility—the way he elevated and made meaningful, beautiful, many of the lonely thoughts that rattle around in our heads.

The speech is reprinted for the first time in book form in This Is Water. How does one keep from going through their comfortable, prosperous adult life unconsciously? How do we get ourselves out of the foreground of our thought...

HUMP DAY LINKS ~ Reads on Writing, Self-publishing and Better Living: Great Work

Quote of the day

Great work is the result of seeking out tension, not avoiding it. Great work doesn’t require reassurance, in fact, it avoids it.

~SETH GODIN, author ofWhat to Do When its Your Turn (and its Always Your Turn)

WRITING

4 Steps for organizing Plot Ideas into a novel, Jody Hedlund| Tweet
I recently finished brainstorming for a new book. I had lists of ideas, pages full of “what ifs,” and beginning character sketches. I’ve found that doing a little organizing at the forefron...

The Price of Death

For the better part of the past decade, Paul Sullivan has written about and lived among some of the wealthiest people in America. He has learned how they save, spend, and invest their money; how they work and rest; how they use their wealth to give their children educational advantages but not strip them of motivation. He has also seen how they make horrendous mistakes.

In The Thin Green Line: The Money Secrets of the Super Wealthy, Sullivan explains why some people, even “rich” people, neve...