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Karma Yoga: Vedanta’s Secret Weapon For Purifying the Mind

by Rory Mackay: The teaching of Vedanta is actually fairly simple. Its entire essence can be summed up in three words: “tat tvam asi” — you are That…

I Got Sober In The Pandemic. It Saved My Life.

by Danielle Tcholakian: 2021 was, in the rearview, better than any of the years in which I’d been able to hide…

Interesting Thoughts On How Living Outside Might Reset Your Internal Clock

by AE Toole: I remember back in 2014 being fascinated when I read a true account of Jill Neimark’s journey back to life after being left incapacitated by a devastating environmental illness…

Socrates

Socrates (469 BC – 399 BC) was a classical Greek, Athenian philosopher and logician who had an important influence on Plato and a major effect on ancient philosophy. He was an enigmatic figure known chiefly through the accounts of later classical writers, especially the writings of his students Plato and Xenophon, and the plays of his contemporary Aristophanes. […]

Swami Sivananda

Hindu spiritual teacher, Sivānanda Saraswati was born on September 8, 1887 in the Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu, southern India. He studied medicine and served in British Malaya as a physician for ten years. Over time, a sense that medicine was healing on a superficial level grew in him, urging him to look elsewhere to […]

Swami Satchidananda

Swami Satchidananda born as C. K. Ramaswamy Gounder, was an Indian religious teacher, spiritual master and yoga adept, who gained fame and following in the West. Sri Swami Satchidananda was one of the first Yoga masters to bring the classical Yoga tradition to the West. Invited to America in 1966 by iconic pop artist Peter […]

Ten Ways To Make Your Time Matter

by Oliver Burkeman: Accepting our mortality helps us let go of busyness and focus on what’s most important to us in order to live a happier, more meaningful life…

The 9 Stages Of Spiritual Self-Realization

by Mateo Sol: Self-realization is one of those phrases that we hear on the spiritual path that goes in one ear and out the other. We don’t give it much thought, yet it’s at the very heart of everything…

Transforming The Five Bodies Through Breath-Work

by Chad Foreman: I’ve been heavily influenced by the Yogic and Buddhist Tantric traditions and according to these spiritual schools a person is made up of multidimensional bodies…

The Falcon 9 May Now Be The Safest Rocket Ever Launched

by Eric Berger: The Falcon 9 also recently surpassed the space shuttle in total flights…

Pir Vilayat Khan

Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan was the eldest son and successor of Hazrat Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan, founder of the Sufi Order in the West. During his fifty years as head of the Sufi Order International became an internationally-recognized spiritual teacher and master of meditation. An avid student of many religious and spiritual traditions and incorporated the […]

Rollo May

Dr. Rollo May (1909-1994) born in 1909 in Ada, Ohio is the best known American existential psychologist. As a clinical psychologist, neo-Freudian psychoanalyst, and existential psychotherapist, he authored some fifteen books. He got his PhD in clinical psychology in 1949, and helped introduce existential psychology to the United States. May was one of the founders […]

How Pfizer Made An Effective Anti-Covid Pill

by Antonio Regalado: In the early days of the pandemic, all eyes were on potential vaccines…

Quotes by Paramahansa Yogananda

“Balance material and spiritual duties in your life; that will bring you supreme happiness.” “He is a yogi who can remain in any material environment without being involved in likes and dislikes.” “First, free yourself from wrong thoughts and habits. Second, establish good habits and perform good deeds.” “If you keep on trying, you will improve. […]

Quotes by Carl Rogers

“The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.” “The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.” “Growth occurs when individuals confront problems, struggle to master them, and through that struggle develop new aspects of their skills, capacities, […]

Quotes by Milton Hyland Erickson

“Trance is a natural everyday experience.” “In hypnosis you are seeking to alter their body awareness, their body understandings, their body experiences, their body responses.” “Discover their patterns of happiness.” “He wanted to make a father out of me. I made a colleague out of him.” “Develop your own techniques. Be your own natural self. […]

Quotes by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.” “Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God.” “We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.” “The most telling and profound […]