Self Improvement

Self Improvement

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Just keep in mind the feeling ‘I am’, merge in it, till your mind and feeling become one. By repeated attempts you will stumble on the right balance of attention and affection and your mind will be firmly established in the thought-feeling ‘I am’.” Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj The steel wheels on the subway wail as

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On Losing My Head (and that’s a good thing!)

“Well my heart’s runnin’ round like a chicken with its head cut offAll around the barn yard falling in and out of lovePoor thing’s blind as a batGettin’ up, fallin’ down, gettin’ upWho’d fall in love with a chicken with its head cut off?”Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields – A Chicken with its Head

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This is it! (It really is!)

“Not knowing how near the truth is, people seek it far away -what a pity! They are like him who, in the midst of water, cries in thirst so imploringly.” -Hakuin I set out up the path, deep into the forest, pausing every few moments to locate myself in my body, in my mind, in

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When Something Is Not Working In Our Life

“What is wrong with my life? I have learned many things and have done everything in accordance with rules for positive living, but my life has stayed the same. Why?” This was a comment from a person who was with us at Positive Thinkers’ Group. She wanted to understand why “everything is against her.”  “Whenever

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Who Is Running the Show of Our Life?,

Have you ever asked yourself why some people succeed in life and others do not? What is the secret to success? Let me try to answer some of these tough questions, with a help from Dr. Wayne Dyer interview with Dr. Bruce Lipton, in November 2010. Bruce H. Lipton, PhD, bestselling author of The Biology

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Three Beats to the Bar

In 1958 Jack Kerouac wrote a semi-autobiographical novel entitled the “Dharma Bums”, loosely based around his early experiences of Buddhism, both in California and in the mountains in Washington State.   Kerouac takes on the character of Ray Smith an itinerant American wanderer. The other principal character in the novel, Japhy Ryder, was, in real life,

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