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Ending Addiction For Good
We’re going to discuss what addiction is, and then talk about how we can come to terms with it and what can we do to stop it. To do this, I’ll talk about addiction, in broad terms. Then we’ll do a quick exercise...
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Can We Make It All Sacred
If we as a people could see the importance in loosening our attachment to sacred things, or rather, notice that everything is sacred, we could begin to end conflict. No land is better than any other land. Everything...
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The Pressure We Create
So what pressure are you creating? This talk points out that we can spend time working on, or watching, what pressures we create for ourselves. The exercise we could do would be to learn to find your self created...
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What Does Paradox Have To Do With It?
Question I’d really like answered for a future talk: What, if anything, would be the best thing humans could do to make the world a better place? Please leave an answer as a comment to this blog or email me...
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Doing It In The Now
When we come to the Now in this moment (whenever that is), we realize that this moment is always here. So that is all we have to do. The mind will kick up again and say things like “You won’t be able to do that in...
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Expectation vs. Experience
Important thought:Â The gap between our experience and our expectation is our unhappiness.
Experience is what’s happening to us. Expectation is what we’d like to happen to us. How many people do you know who live in...
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You Can’t Kill God
If we can learn to identify with god-consciousness, we will see that we are a part of the whole. That realization allows us to not fear things. We are temporary, but we are part of the infinite. All things in the...
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What Really Makes You Happy
Happiness comes from being.
All the things we enjoy (dancing, drinking, drugging, driving cars, watching sports, etc.), the parts of those things that bring joy are the “being” parts. So what this means is that the...
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How Committed Are You?
Making any kind of change is very difficult when we aren’t truly committed to it. So what is commitment and how do we find it?
In this talk, the light switch is the idea that being committed makes change easy. Finding...
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The Different Meanings of To Be
I want to clarify what I mean by “to be” because it is actually more than one thing. It is both “to be – still” and also “to be – what you are.” This may be hard to stomach because these seem to be in opposition, but...
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Turning Anger into Compassion
Anger has its place. It is there to move us. It tells us things aren’t right. But we don’t want to get lost in anger. We need to be conscious of it.
Compassion means: Deep awareness of the suffering of another coupled...
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Language is a Lie
I discuss the need to talk. The need to fill space with commentary. Truth comes from the act of listening, not speaking.
I also mentioned oneness and unity consciousness. Mentioned the book Cosmic Consciousness by...
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