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Find Your Missing Peace

This we have now is not imagination. This is not grief or joy. Not a judging state, or an elation, or sadness. Those come and go. This is the presence that doesn’t. ~Rumi An excerpt from Find Your Missing Peace: A Practical Guide: Stop being nice and get real Acting nice about something when you’re [...]

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The Peaceful Planet Guide to Great Sex

Seems some of you are wondering whether people who make a commitment to a peaceful, compassionate sort of life have sex. Quick answer: of course they do. Or maybe they don’t. Maybe they wish they did but don’t or…who knows? Like anything, it’s a personal thing. But what is sex like if you’re trying to [...]

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Declutter Your Mind: 3 Tips For More Peace

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. —Ralph Waldo Emerson I crave peace. I like happiness too, and I’m often happy, but my primary goal is peace. I see happiness as periodic episodes, not as a state of mind or emotion that’s ongoing and steady. If I’m peaceful—neither high nor low, just nice and steady—those [...]

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Stop Making Assumptions

Don’t Make Assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life. —Miguel Angel Ruiz, The Four Agreements One of the biggest detriments to good communication [...]

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Observing or Evaluating–What’s the Difference and Why Does it Matter?

To observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence. ~J. Krishnamurti Unless we’re gazing in a mirror all day or are otherwise preoccupied with ourselves, most of us do a lot of evaluating, particularly when it comes to friends, neighbors, and family members. But how often do we simply observe? When we see someone [...]

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