In our busy lives, we tend to have a running commentary about time. We’re planning next week, next year. We glance at the clock and exclaim “Four o’clock already? Where did the day go!” And we also talk about “killing time” when we run up against an unexpected delay that leaves a hole in our […]
Just for fun, I Googled the word “success” – and got this response: About 1,180,000,000 results Even without seeing that there are over a billion references to success available on the internet, we already know that it’s hugely important in our own lives to feel successful. Yet so many people walk around (or trudge)
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Have you ever been in a situation where someone asked you to do something, and you automatically refused, not because you didn’t want what the request would bring you, but because you were resisting the person doing the asking? This is called “demand resistance” and, not surprisingly, the behavior is closely tied with self-sabotage. Sometimes
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Have you ever been in a situation where you had been hurt or damaged by another person, and your friends or perhaps a spiritual advisor warned you that holding a grudge was hurting you more than the other person, and you “should” forgive that person? When that happens, most of us have a knee-jerk
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I use both a PC and a Mac, one is a desktop and the other is my laptop. I’ve used PCs for a long time, and you’d think that by now I’d be familiar with all the features of the Windows Media Player that I use daily to play music from my library of everything
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Whenever we walk out the door, we have an intention of heading somewhere, even if it is only a vague idea of taking a walk in the neighborhood. We always have an intention, but most of the time it is barely thought off, and we run on automatic pilot day in and day out. That’s
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When I was in the early weeks of developing the “Restoring Tibet” project whose working title was “The Dalai Lama Is Home Again,” I knew that I could use all the support I could find, particularly since I was working on the project in solitude and utmost secrecy, and would be for many months before
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It’s easy to tell ourselves that we enjoy meditating, or that we understand the benefits of it, and it’s also easy to get off to a flying start with an intention to meditate every day and then sputter into a landing field of hit or miss efforts. When we first begin meditating, it can seem
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In the classic manifestation book How to Get What You Want, written by Orison Swett Marden in 1923 and referenced countless times in New Thought teachings, Marden tells us, “Men and women are human magnets. Just as a steel magnet drawn through a pile of rubbish will pull out only the things which have an affinity
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Although advice books have been around for centuries, it wasn’t until the 1980s that the “self-help” books phenomenon was launched, and we haven’t looked back. Everywhere we turn, we can find advice (from people like me) to think positive, to create affirmations that support what you want, to visualize the wish fulfilled in order to
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