7 Must Read Success Lessons from Dale Carnegie

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Dale Carnegie was a famous lecturer and writer as well as the developer of very popular courses in self-improvement, salesmanship, corporate training, interpersonal skills, and public speaking.

Sweeping Zen: Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki

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Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki: was a Japanese-born scholar of Zen and Japanese culture who essentially introduced the West to Zen and Mahayana Buddhism through his many published works.

Daisetz Suzuki Remembered

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by Edward Hoffman: Despite the gloomy global economy, the field of positive psychology is booming. 

The Teachings of Chuang Tzu

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As with many spiritual texts from ancient times, the teachings attributed to Chuang Tzu are a mixed bag.   

Chaung-tzu Biography

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We know fewer things about Chuang-tzu than about Lao-tzu . The main source of information is once again the historian Ssu-ma Ch’ien.

Free & Easy Wondering

Chuang Tzu-awaken

by Chuang Tzu, Translated by Burton Watson: IN THE NORTHERN DARKNESS there is a fish and his name is K’un.1 

The World

Chuang Tzu-awaken

by Chuang Tzu, Translated by Burton Watson: EXTERNAL THINGS CANNOT be counted on. Hence Lung-feng was executed, Pi Kan was sentenced to death,

100 years of B.F. Skinner

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M. Greengrass: This month marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of influential behaviorist B.F. Skinner,

Superstition in the Pigeon

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by B.F. Skinner: To say that a reinforcement is contingent upon a response may mean nothing more than that it follows the response. 

Thoughts of Buckminster Fuller

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by Buckminster Fuller: Standing by the lake on a jump-or-think basis, the very first spontaneous question coming to mind was, 

Toward The One

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by Pir Vilayat Khan: YOU HAVE TO BUILD THE CENTERS OF PERCEPTION IN THE HIGHER BODIES. 

Quotes by Sarada Devi

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“One must be patient like the earth. What iniquities are being perpetrated on her! Yet she quietly endures them all.” “The happiness of the world is transitory. The less you become attached to the world, the more you enjoy peace of mind.” “There is no treasure equal to contentment and no virtue equal to fortitude.” […]

Quotes by Yeshe Tsogyal

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“Listen, faithful Tibetans!  I am merging with the fundamental, the ground of all that is—physical pain and suffering are disappearing….  The son, the inner elements of my body, is reuniting with the mother, the outer elements.  Her physical remains will disappear into earth and stone.” “I, Yeshe Tsogyal, am the sovereign of cyclic existence and its […]