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A Resource for Mindful Living

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  • Reflections
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Thoughtful Essays

Thoughtful Essays

A collection of excellent essays, occasionally speeches, from leaders, thinkers, philosophers:

  • Bowling Alone – Robert Putnam
  • Chance for Peace speech – Dwight Eisenhower
  • How to Deal with Conflict Effectively – Robert Bateman
  • Meditation and Action – Chogyam Trungpa
  • Mental Models I Find Repeatedly Useful – Gabriel Weinberg
  • National Security and Double Government – Dr. Michael Glennon
  • Neuroscience of Mindfulness: What Exactly Happens to Your Brain When You Meditate – Kristyna Zapletal
  • The Patristics – Sean Multimedia
  • Ur Fascism – Umberto Eco
  • Why People are Irrational about Politics – Dr. Michael Huemer

Imagine a bowl of water, agitated, stirred up, muddied, put in a dark place. If a man with good eyesight were to look at the reflection of his own face in it, he would not know or see it as it really was. In the same way, priest, when a man dwells with his heart possessed and overwhelmed by doubt-and-wavering…then he cannot know or see, as it really is, what is to his own profit, to the profit of others, to the profit of both.

— The Buddha
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