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Motivation
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11.06.08Do Success Stories Inspire or Intimidate You?By Steve Mills You can learn a lot about life from reading and listening to the life stories of others. I love biographies, to see how my personal hero's have structured their lives. The struggles they have faced, strategies they have used and the way that they have structured their lives in order to do what they love every day. The insight gained from looking at the place where people have started their life journey, and the steps they have taken to get to their goals is extremely valuable, like the condensed experience of every year of their life, put into ...
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07.17.08Everything Counts, Even in Small AmountsBy Seamus Anthony Ennis When I despair of and don't know what to do about this crazy world we live in then I just try to do something positive. Help someone, give a little money to a cause, or if I feel the urge, just have fun making something cool. I believe it all counts. It counts because every time you follow your creative urge, you are contributing to the great mission we have been charged with: to create a better world. Creating cool stuff - be it a work of art, a healing practice, a cake, a blog, or just a nice ...
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06.29.08So What Puts The Rebel In Zen?By Steve Mills Too often in spiritual and personal development circles, the unique part of you as an individual is overlooked in the pursuit of grander visions. The special part that makes you "you" is not seen as important, and sometimes it is seen as something to be suppressed. It is however my belief that you don't have to become anything more than YOU to become enlightened. The Rebel part of you is as important in your pursuit of enlightenment and happiness as the disciplined, restrained and conformed aspects. The Rebel part is that spark inside everyone that makes them unique. The part ...
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06.26.08Rebel Zen and the Art of Imperfect EnlightenmentYou Are Already Enlightened! That's right, and no - I'm not joking. Zen Masters have publicly said that we are all enlightened, the trick is knowing it (or getting in touch with it). And if you haven't any idea what it feels like to connect to this state of being then all I can say is it is very difficult for anybody to express in words. To briefly try (not the main point of this post) let me paraphrase Rachel Pollack's words about the Hanged Man tarot card (from her book Seventy Eight Degrees of Wisdom): It's feeling free to be who ...
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06.25.08Here There Be MonstersBy Steve Mills When I was a younger man I was fascinated with ancient history. I would spend entire days reading about past discoveries, ancient civilizations, the rise and fall of empires. I was thinking about this today and the image of a medieval nautical map came to mind. People of centuries ago had some pretty detailed maps of the areas that they frequently travelled, especially when you take into consideration the tools and mathematics that they used to draw them. The one feature that really stood out for me on those maps however were the areas that weren’t quite as well ...
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