“I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn’t much improved my opinion of them.” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Emotional maturity is a difficult thing to measure. We can’t quantify it, or even describe exactly what it is. But we know it when we see it. …
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What Is ‘The Sensory Deprivation Tank Experience’? An isolation tank, ‘float’ tank or sensory deprivation tank (or chamber) is one of the few environments on earth where a human being can experience almost complete sensory deprivation (hence the name.) It’s known holistically as the ‘sensory deprivation tank experience’ because, as you’ll see, it really is …
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Gautama Buddha’s teachings are the foundation of not only Buddhism, but a vast amount of new age spirituality as well. These Buddha quotes have been reinterpreted again and again in books, articles, and countless other media. Amidst all this more recent and valuable content, it’s easy to lose sight of the teachings the Buddha’s followers …
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The self help movement appears to be a relatively recent phenomenon. Only since the 20th century, with books like How to Win Friends and Influence People and Rich Dad, Poor Dad has the self help craze really gained momentum. But the belief in texts and teaching to help one grow is not a new idea. …
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There are many Sun Tzu quotes across the web, and here’s why: he was perhaps the most influential military strategist of all time. His work holds importance not only for its application on the battlefield, but in the timeless lessons that can help us, even now, in our day to day lives. Credited as the …
“The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.” ~ John Stuart Mill We’re all familiar with the image of troubled eccentric geniuses, who partake in …
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Buddhist koans are an ancient and incredibly effective tool for spiritual teaching. They are known to many in the west as “unanswerable” questions, meant to puzzle and provoke a student’s thinking. This is a misconception. In traditional Zen Buddhism, koans are intended to be answered, though the answer may be difficult to find, and there …
The dark side within us has long been a subject of much discussion, debate, and fear. No human being is entirely “good-natured”, or entirely “bad”. Each one of us contains the potential for tremendous acts of cruelty, or kindness. We see the darkness within us — through our darkest impulses and emotions — and wonder …
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“Life is one, said the Buddha, and the Middle Way to the end of suffering in all its forms is that which leads to the end of the illusion of separation, which enables man to see, as a fact as clear as sunlight, that all mankind, and all other forms in manifestation, are one unit, …
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“When you go into the public domain by the media route everybody develops the illusion that they own you. They resent even slight efforts at privacy.” ~ Marshall McLuhan We live in a golden age of information availability. Almost anything we want to know, we can find, and we often find way more than we …
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