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Should We All Start Living Like Caterpillars and Then Butterflies?

Should We All Start Living Like Caterpillars and Then Butterflies?

Life moves in cycles. We grow, change, and sometimes retreat into stillness before...

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Reverse Decluttering Can Work Wonders for Your Home

Reverse Decluttering Can Work Wonders for Your Home

When my mother-in-law was preparing to move from the large home she and my father-in-law...

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7 Decluttering Habits Everybody Needs

7 Decluttering Habits Everybody Needs

You know the feeling. You spend a weekend clearing counters, purging closets, and...

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On Shunning the Body

On Shunning the Body

An Irish Zen Priest reevaluates organized religion’s relationship to our physical...

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An Invitation to Freedom

An Invitation to Freedom

Meditation teacher Jack Kornfield on how to view our suffering as a gateway to liberation....

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Returning to the Center

Returning to the Center

How stillness can reshape our experience of the world The post Returning to the...

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Rooted like Teak: The Growing Strength of the Thai Bhikkhuni Sangha

Rooted like Teak: The Growing Strength of the Thai Bhikkhuni...

Long excluded from Theravada society, a network of female monks is quietly transforming...

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‘A Conversation with the Sun (Afterimage)’

‘A Conversation with the Sun (Afterimage)’

Phaptawan Suwannakudt and Yvonne Low reflect on Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s video...

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Finding Balance Through the Full Spectrum of Emotion

Finding Balance Through the Full Spectrum of Emotion

“As a solid rock is not shaken by the wind, the wise are not shaken by praise or...

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When Friendship Is One-Sided: Letting Go of Someone Who Was Never Really There

When Friendship Is One-Sided: Letting Go of Someone Who...

“Finally, I realized that I was never asking too much. I was just asking the wrong...