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Becoming a Spiritual Explorer (Exploring the Worlds of Others)

Becoming a Spiritual Explorer (Exploring the Worlds of Others)

Becoming a “spiritual explorer” is about seeking to overcome ordinary superficiality of relationships and create genuine and compassionate human interactions.

The Art of Defenselessness: Give Nothing to Defend

The Art of Defenselessness: Give Nothing to Defend

When you explicitly refuse to defend yourself amid the criticism of others, suddenly, critics come to realize that there is little about you to attack.

8 Mantras for Accepting Criticism (and Silencing Critics)

8 Mantras for Accepting Criticism (and Silencing Critics)

An inner, emotional transformation will help you begin to accept the criticism you hear and turn it into a great source of strength and feeling of liberation.

Inciting Change When You WANT Things to Stay the Same

Inciting Change When You WANT Things to Stay the Same

Causing change allows us to use it for development, growth and progress. Allowing change to happen either forces us to adjust to it or to resist it completely.

Seeking Real-Life Practices in Patience and Perspective

Seeking Real-Life Practices in Patience and Perspective

The natural root of impatience is a lack of perspective. Thus, practicing and nurturing a greater sense of patience comes from shifting our initial perspective.

Forging Meaningful Connections with Others

Forging Meaningful Connections with Others

Not just humor, but genuine happiness and positivity help make new friends and further can establish real, strong, and meaningful connections to people.

Treating Others with Compassion

Treating Others with Compassion

Embodying compassion can reap radical goodness and happiness for others and ourselves, if we’re brave enough to face it and fight the cynical urge to run away.

Make Better Decisions With Mental-Emotional Synergy

Make Better Decisions With Mental-Emotional Synergy

Mental-emotional synergy begins with the choice to not think in terms of mutual exclusivity: that we must either think with our head, or act on our hearts.

Preventing Patience from becoming Hesitation, Reluctance

Preventing Patience from becoming Hesitation, Reluctance

At some point, patience will push us to a place where we realize that more is needed than simply being patient alone; we must make the Choice to do more.

Becoming a Balance for Others: Are You a Counterweight?

Becoming a Balance for Others: Are You a Counterweight?

Acting as a counterweight provides balance for others and contributes toward our collective happiness by helping establish emotional order, rhythm and harmony.

Forgiveness is Liberating: Free Yourself and Others

Forgiveness is Liberating: Free Yourself and Others

Forgiveness liberates one’s self from the pain caused by another. More importantly, forgiving someone frees us from the past and allows us to live in the now.

The Two-Way Street of Giving Theory

The Two-Way Street of Giving Theory

The Two-Way Street of Giving theory is a simple way to conceptualize the difference between giving for the “right” reasons and giving for the “wrong” reasons.

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