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31

overcoming suffering.

December 31, 2006 | Leave a Comment

According to the Vedanta school of philosophy within Hinduism, there are five sources of suffering. All five sources are really contained within the first source: not knowing yourself. Not knowing yourself – your true nature – is the ultimate cause of suffering.
When we don’t know our true nature, we fear death and other [...]

Dec

30

labels.

December 30, 2006 | 3 Comments

I’m so over labels.
The spirit is free and fluid, and when you try to pin it down, you limit yourself. It’s like putting yourself in a box. Labels nail you down.
Someone once asked the famous poet Rumi, “who are you?” and he replied: “I do not know who I am. [...]

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28-Dec-2006

December 28, 2006 | 1 Comment

Our senses have pulled the wool over our eyes. The world we see, feel, hear, smell, and taste isn’t real. Think about the molecular structure of your body. If you went down to the quantum level, you would see an occasional particle whirling by – but mostly empty space. 99.99999% of our body is empty space. [...]

Dec

25

happy for no reason.

December 25, 2006 | 1 Comment

I learned something pretty interesting today: happiness is the goal of everything we do. Ask someone why, why, why, why, why… and they’ll say, because I want to be happy. It may take 20 “whys,” but everything comes back to happiness. Try it. It’s true.
So, instead of making happiness a secondary goal – [...]

Dec

24

living for others by living for you

December 24, 2006 | Leave a Comment

The idea of “living your life for yourself” comes across as selfish. We’ve been taught that it is right and noble to live your life for other people. I think that the only true way to help others and to better the world is by living for yourself. Thus, I’m going to introduce the idea [...]

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21-Dec-2006

December 21, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Buddha: One who acts on truth is happy, in this world and beyond.

Dec

17

living the Secret

December 17, 2006 | Leave a Comment

I think that life is always giving us messages. Well, really, life isn’t giving us message – we’re giving messages to ourselves based on what we are creating in our lives. Those messages often come in the form of coincidences.
One of those messages surrounds “the Secret” – which Nick and I discovered [...]

Dec

14

rhode island.

December 14, 2006 | Leave a Comment

“I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.”
It’s nice being in Rhode Island. I’m here for another two and a half weeks. I keep saying that I’m “home” in Rhode Island, but it really [...]

Dec

12

the secret

December 12, 2006 | 2 Comments

Here’s a pretty cool video that Nick and I found. And just for the record, I so called the secret!
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1279084763732767570&q=duration%3Along+is%3Afree+genre%3ADOCUMENTARY

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12

12-Dec-2006

December 12, 2006 | Leave a Comment

“What good has it ever brought?”
That’s what the professor asked in American History X – which I watched with Nick last night. I think it is important to ask that question about all aspects of our lives. And if something hasn’t brought good – either to yourself or to others (even though there’s [...]

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