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  1. What Does It Mean To Be Mindful?
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    What Does It Mean To Be Mindful?

    • Posted: 03/24/25
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    Why is it that peace of mind is so hard for us to stay in, to keep as our own? Why is being calm in the middle of a storm virtually the last thing that most of us are able to do? What is the source of real composure? And how do we work to develop it within ourselves? This is why we must have new self-knowledge as follows.

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  2. Here's the First Step that Leads to Freedom from Useless Suffering
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    Here's the First Step that Leads to Freedom from Useless Suffering

    • Posted: 03/17/25
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    To be able to see any life event -- good or bad -- as a vehicle to help transport us from our present level of understanding to a higher one requires that we develop a new relationship with these unwanted events in our lives. Instead of trying to protect ourselves from them, we must become willing to see what they are revealing to us about ourselves in that same moment. The difference between these two paths and their attending possibilities...

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  3. Life Is Beginning Again Everywhere Around Us
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    Life Is Beginning Again Everywhere Around Us

    • Posted: 03/10/25
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    Even though we all have our natural preference, no season of the year is greater than any other. Each plays an indispensable role in a cycle of life greater than its individual parts; and each one serves the season that follows on its heels, enabling it to fulfill its purpose in a procession as timeless as the earth itself...

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  4. The Freedom We Seek Is Found Everywhere And All At Once
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    The Freedom We Seek Is Found Everywhere And All At Once

    • Posted: 03/03/25
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    When things naturally come to a close in life, our pain isn't so much born of the fact that something now ends, as it is that within this moment of ending, we are forced to meet a certain order of emptiness in us for which we are just not prepared. We are brought face to face with a great void in the center of our heart that we thought had been filled. And then we make this common, but largely unrealized mistake...

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  5. Walk Past All Negative States
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    Walk Past All Negative States

    • Posted: 02/24/25
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    We value negative states because of the strong sense of self we get from them. This may be very difficult for us to see, but a strong light will show us the freeing facts. No one wants to believe that he or she values things like self-pity, anger, and depression. We would insist we don't, and as evidence we point to the fact that we fight against them, but the struggle gives us a false sense of life and importance...

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  6. Stop the Cycle of Useless Thought
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    Stop the Cycle of Useless Thought

    • Posted: 02/18/25
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    Most of us don't understand the nature of time and our place within it, and so we know nothing of timelessness, save for those rare instances when we encounter transcendent beauty and are transported out of our usual train of thought in time, into the timeless.

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  7. Learn What It Means To Watch
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    Learn What It Means To Watch

    • Posted: 02/10/25
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    We are created to know ourselves not by what we think about, but to know ourselves within God's ever-present, perfectly changing Life. The challenge for us is that we are habituated to thinking about ourselves and deriving a sensation of ourselves based upon the images that we consider.

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  8. Do What Is In Your Power
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    Do What Is In Your Power

    • Posted: 02/04/25
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    What is it that makes us feel powerless when someone does something and it punishes us, or we hear some unwanted news? Let's examine it. Something happens that I don't like, and what am I looking at in that moment? I'm not looking at the thing that I don't like. What I'm "looking at" is the whole condition of myself that feels challenged, threatened by, overcome through whatever it is that it sees. But what does it see other than something that it resists?

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  9. The Only Way to Change
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    The Only Way to Change

    • Posted: 01/27/25
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    Why do I ever get frustrated with someone or something? Why am I frustrated with them? Because they're bringing up inside of me what I don't know what to do with, because they are making me aware of a pain that was part of my life before I sat down to have the pie with them -- that's why.

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  10. Cross the Border Between Conscience and Unconsciousness
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    Cross the Border Between Conscience and Unconsciousness

    • Posted: 01/20/25
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    Where is the border between conscience and unconsciousness? The reason the world is beyond repair is because it is populated by a race of beings that now believe that they are conscious. They are not conscious; you are not conscious. The proof that you are not conscious is that you hurt one another, that's the proof of it. And that you hurt yourself, that's the proof of it. Every time you talk to yourself, every time you punish yourself...

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  11. Be the One Who Places Your Attention Where You Want It
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    Be the One Who Places Your Attention Where You Want It

    • Posted: 01/14/25
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    Our attention is precious. Our attention may be the most important thing that we own, and almost none of us own any of our own attention. Anybody can take it. A phone call can take it. The news can take it. Look in the mirror and it can be stolen. I'm looking in the mirror and I don't look anything like I'm supposed to look, and if I look in the mirror and I don't see what I like, where does my attention go?

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  12. The True Beginning We've Been Searching For
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    The True Beginning We've Been Searching For

    • Posted: 01/05/25
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    It's crucial for us to understand that the thrust of our habitual thinking lives with its attention fixed, not on beginnings, but on the end of things. Don't we always wonder what our lives will be like tomorrow? Aren't we forever dreaming about how different things will be once we win this or achieve that? Don't we, in our mind's eye, perpetually walk towards a brighter moment to come, thinking about how good we'll feel once we're able to resolve some...

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