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Now, what happened in the late ’60s was that there was a bifurcation of people into political-social activists and spiritual seekers. In those days, they were the two different groups. Both of them had had an experience of what was possible, and one group said, “For all of it to happen, you’ve got to change...
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Written by Noah Markus I’ve always been a pretty anxious person, even as a child. Getting to sleep was (and still occasionally is) a problem for me, because it’s like my mind just wouldn’t turn off. Fortunately for me, music had my back. For a long time as a kid, every night I would fall...
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Good evening, my name is Ram Dass, which means, “Servant of God.” However, I also use it as an acronym for “Rent-A-Mouth,” because sitting up here implies something that I don’t really cop to. It’s hard not to get into a model of who I am and who you are because of the way we’re...
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When I talk about opening the heart, what exactly do we do? Well, one thing you do, is you acknowledge that you feel ‘closed.’ That’s the first thing. You don’t make believe you’re open hearted, which most people do much of the time. They’re making believe they are open-hearted, while they’re aloof a little more...
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We can see that a lot of our spiritual practices are moving us from ego to soul. We’re clawing our way up and out of the darkness. It’s a darkness which turns out to be not dark at all, but it seems shadowy from where we’ve been. So we claw up, and then when we’re...
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