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Ten Keys to Success in Your Spiritual Growth

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Written by: Barbara Y. Martin and Dimitri Moraitis

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I have used these keys for many years in my classes. I offer them to you to facilitate your spiritual journey.

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Mindfulness Meditation Is an Evolutionary Sport and We’re All on the Same Team

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Written by: Wes "Scoop" Nisker

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Paraphrasing poet Gary Snyder, meditation is a process of entering into our deep identity over and over again, until it becomes the identity from which we live.

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The Dances of Universal Peace: Unity in Heart and Breath

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Written by: Ahad Cobb

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The Dances of Universal Peace are participatory body prayer, not performance art.

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Miracle in the Storm

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Written by: Barry Vissell

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People have over the years urged us to remove this tree, fearing the possibility that it might fall on our house. This particular giant was clearly leaning away from our buildings.

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You Don’t Go to Heaven, You Grow to Heaven

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Written by: Barbara Y. Martin and Dimitri Moraitis

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Metaphysics teaches that you don't go to Heaven just because you have been a good person; you grow to Heaven through the gradual, majestic process of spiritual evolution.

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How Sports Became the New Religion - A 200 Year-old Story

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Written by: Hugh McLeod

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“Jesus Christ was a sportsman.” Or so claimed a preacher at one of the regular sporting services that were held throughout the first half of the 20th century in Protestant churches all over Britain.

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How the Apple Became the Forbidden Fruit

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Written by: Andrea Alexander

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At a certain point, "readers of the Old French version of Genesis understood the statement 'Adam and Eve ate a pom' to mean 'Adam and Eve ate an apple,'" explains Azzan Yadin-Israel.

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Turning the Mind to Peace

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Written by: Hugh and Gayle Prather

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To make our state of mind more important than what we are doing is to walk a spiritual path. That’s pretty basic. But it all becomes a little more complicated...

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Everyday Shabbat and Mindfulness

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Written by: Matthew Ponak

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I am inspired to share helpful techniques from my own tradition to add to this emerging global mindfulness conversation.

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My Three Gifts for You in this Madhouse Paradise

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Written by: Will T. Wilkinson

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I have three discoveries to share with you that may support your own unique emergence into increasing fulfillment.

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Living Wild, Loving Free: The Practice of Compassion and Unshakeable Self-Love

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Written by: Mara Branscombe

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When we begin to investigate our life experiences as “material” to reflect back to us the ways in which we can self-direct our healing process, we begin the journey...

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Contrary Winds and the Value of Spirituality

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Written by: don Alberto Taxo

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It is easy to love people who love us, but it is possible and necessary to give love to people who have wounded us because this is where the spiritual opportunity lies.

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Four Requirements for Living in Joy

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Written by: Andrew Harvey and Carolyn Baker, Ph.D.,

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Nothing is more important for the future of humanity than a global return to joy. At a moment of profound sadness regarding the state of the world...

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Slow: The Medicine of Slowing

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Written by: Julia Paulette Hollenbery

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In an attempt to keep up in an increasingly fast world, we are always on the go, non-stop doing, grabbing coffees and rushing lunches . . .  We are in constant motion, fingers active if not our whole body...

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The Spirit of True Christian Living in Action

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Written by: Robert Jennings, InnerSelf.com

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In this age of too much political negativity and price gouging it is sometimes difficult to find and see the positive. But here it is staring out at me from my kitchen window.

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From Faith to Transformation through Connecting with the Spirit World

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Written by: Lynne Renoir

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I was raised in a fundamentalist Christian home. My father was a preacher who was particularly attracted to the words of Solomon that he must not "spare the rod" in disciplining his child.

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A Rare Example of Compassion

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Written by: Pierre Pradervand

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Recently I was invited to participate in an online event on compassion. One of the participants shared possibly the most moving story on compassion I have ever heard in my existence.

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How to Meditate and Why

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Written by: Joseph Selbie

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Meditation gives us greater access to nonlocal realities: uplifting and harmonizing emotions, intuition and creativity, and an abundance of health-giving life force.

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Renaming and Reclaiming the Sacred

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Written by: Phyllida Anam-Áire

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Walking in nature, eating delicious food, poetry, playing with our children, dancing and singing, making love, are all graces we can name as sacred encounters with life itself. These experiences open us up to different states of being and have a positive effect on our psyches.

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Mindfulness: The Gateway to a Healthier and More Expansive Brain

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Written by: Ora Nadrich

Mindfulness: The Gateway to a Healthier and More Expansive Brain 

As mysterious as the brain is, mindfulness, I believe, can help us know more about it and the brilliance of which it is capable. 

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How Meditation Rewires the Brain for Life-Changing Experience

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Written by: Joseph Selbie

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We are so much more than we know. We have access to a rich source of vitality, creativity, fulfillment, and wellbeing right within ourselves.

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