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25% Anger Management: Taking a Step Back
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16% 3 Dantian: Upper Middle and Lower Dantian
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16% Getting Started with Yoga
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2010 August Archives

Marscapone and roasted red pepper sandwich

I recently acquired a tub of marscapone cheese, a necessary ingredient of this zucchini and parmesan tart I wanted to make. But the recipe left me with a lot of leftover marscapone that I wasn’t sure what to do with.
Then I had a marscapone revelatio…

My September Goals: Let’s See What A Little Public Accountability Will Do….

Sharing my goals publicly is something new for me that I think will be interesting and rewarding to try. Public accountability and social support count for a lot, so let’s see how this all pans out and maybe it will be beneficial to keep doing this.

I’ll get right

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Words of the Day: America, Angel, Apollo

My old blog, the Word of the Day, is defunct, and I’m getting ready to take it down. Before I do, though, I’m going to repost some of the best words here over the next few weeks. Enjoy!
America
In the English-speaking world, America almost always refers only …

Abdul Hamid Khan | Tribute to a Silent Sufi Dervish

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… in the company of those on whom is the Grace of God, of the prophets, the saints, the martyrs, and the righteous: Ah! what a beautiful fellowship! Such is grace from God: and Sufficient is God as the Knower. – Q 4:69-70
The earth will never lac…

Causation and the Endless Search for Reasons

Stop looking for causation and start changing behavior. That’s what I tell people these days. Modern trends in psychology point toward identifying irrational thinking rather than emotional catharsis. Trying to pin down causation is a difficult and often pointless task when the real issue is distorted thinking. Who ...

Book Review: 27 Things to Know About Yoga

Welcome to Day #3 of the Blog Book Tour for Victoria Klein’s new yoga book, 27 Things to Know About Yoga! I couldn’t be happier to share and recommend this gem of a yoga book with each of you. Part how-to book, part intro to yoga philosophy and …

What’s the Best Way To Take Calea Zacatechichi?

Every Tuesday, I throw up questions from readers on the blog as a point of discussion. I invite your feedback in the comments! You can submit a question using the contact form here. Thanks!

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If you’ve used Calea Z for dream-work before,

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Hostility Blinds Us from Truth

It is an interesting fact that the when we take a stake in an argument we often shut down open-minded thinking. Our minds seem to have a need to separate us into a “for” or “against” stance, which only serves to divide us against one another and keep ...

Parable of the Pearl of Great Price

Again, the Kingdom of Heaven islike a merchant in search of fine pearls,who, on finding one Pearl of Great Price,went and sold all that he had and bought it.
~ Teaching Parable of Christ, Gospel of Matthew 13:45-46 ~
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Pearl of Great Price is a para…

The slow road to Thames Head

Yesterday we decided to walk to the source of the River Thames, something we’ve been meaning to do ever since we moved to Orchard Cottage, but haven’t quite got around to due to the lamest of logistical reasons. Thames Head is only about 6 or so mile…

My No Alcohol for 30 Days Experiment

I’m at the tail end of a 30 day experiment of not drinking any alcohol. In this post I want to talk about my motivation for doing this, what it’s been like, and what I’ve learned from the experience.

I’ve been aware for quite some time that I drink

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Google Life Navigator

At the Techonomy conference in August 2010, Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt said that through artificial intelligence Google can predict human behavior and that if we show Google 14 pictures of ourselves, it can even identify who we are—a boastful statement, but not far from the truth. The ordinary ...

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