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Louis Armstrong…a Beautiful Type Seven

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The Zen of David Daniels

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T What Really Matters – What If This Were My Last Day…?By David Daniels, M.D. “Here, I do my best to put in simple terms that love, and how to manifest it in our lives each day, is ultimately the path of liberation and “What Really Matters.” This means, embodying receptive presence with an open

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Memorial Day…Such Sadness

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Opening Our Hearts…Pema Chodron

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Discomfort…Pema Chodron

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Being Real…

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Being Real “I don’t care how spiritual you are. How long you can melt in the sweat lodge. How many peyote or ayahuasca journeys that have blown your mind, how many master plant diets you’ve done or how well you can hold crow pose. I don’t care what planets fall in what houses on your

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Heart Attention

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Keeping Quiet…

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KEEPING QUIETby Pablo Neruda Now we will count to twelveand we will all keep still. For once on the face of the earth,let’s not speak in any language;let’s stop for one second,and not move our arms so much. It would be an exotic momentwithout rush, without engines;we would all be togetherin a sudden strangeness. Fisherman

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Now…Pema Chodron

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“Now. That’s the key. Now, now, now. Mindfulness trains you to be awake and alive, fully curious, about what? Well, about now, right? You sit in meditation and the out-breath is now and waking up from your fantasies is now and even the fantasies are now, although they seem to take you into the past

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The Purpose of the Enneagram/Rohr

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Richard Rohr on the Transformative gift of the Enneagram: Richard Rohr’s Daily MeditationThe Enneagram (Part 1)The Purpose of the EnneagramMonday, May 26, 2014 The purpose of the Enneagram is not self-improvement, which would be our ego’s goal. Rather, it is the transformation of consciousness so that we can realize our essence, our True Self. Personality

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