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8 Books For a Higher Existence

8 Books For a Higher Existence

Books are magical inventions. By carrying meaning, they gives us glimpses of experience and knowledge from a different world. Phonetic language, being cut-off from time and place, the Now, helps both to encapsulate the ego more, but also to offer guidance to make it poriferous, letting Eros free. Without books […]

7 Books That Will Violently Shift Your Perspectives

7 Books That Will Violently Shift Your Perspectives

Once in a while a book comes along that rocks your world so hard that you’re never quite the same after. Here are 7 of those books, ordered by how hard they’re going to rock your skull!  On Happiness…. Zen and the Art of Happiness by Chris Prentiss Of all the […]

7-Day Thought Challenges (Live-With’s)

7-Day Thought Challenges (Live-With’s)

In his book 'The Highest Goal: The Secret That Sustains You in Every Moment', author Michael Ray introduces the concept of something he calls 'live-withs' -- short statements that can be used to challenge certain aspects of yourself. Live-with's are different from mantras in that you only use one at a […]

A New Paradigm of Happiness

A New Paradigm of Happiness

From the rise of Buddhism, the positive psychology movement and critical thinking of the extreme ways humans look for pleasure nowadays comes new ways of thinking about happiness. If you want to find out what the latest scientific findings have in common with old wisdom regarding happiness, don’t look any […]

The Last Question

The Last Question

‘The Last Question is another brilliant short story by Isaac Asimov which makes you think. I’m not sure of the exact meaning of the end so please leave your thoughts in the comments. Enjoy :) The last question was asked for the first time, half in jest, on May 21, […]

The Last Answer

The Last Answer

The Last Answer by Isaac Asimov Murray Templeton was forty-five years old, in the prime of life, and with all parts of his body in perfect working order except for certain key portions of his coronary arteries, but that was enough. The pain had come suddenly, had mounted to an […]

6 More EPIC Quotes from “Conversations With God”

6 More EPIC Quotes from “Conversations With God”

Here are six more empowering quotes from “Conversations With God: An Uncommon Dialogue” by Neal Walsh. I just couldn’t fit them all into one article :) 1“So-do you want your life to ‘take off?’ Begin at once to imagine it the way you want it to be–and move into that. […]