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Do One Thing at a Time by Roger Walsh, M.D., Ph.D. 

What’s the best remedy when you feel pulled in all directions at once? Focus your concentration just on what you’re doing.

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Taming Your Gremlin: A Guide to Enjoying Yourself by Richard D. Carson 

Why is it so difficult to be at peace with yourself sometimes? Writer Richard D. Carson suggests that it may all be the fault of your gremlin.

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Difficulties on the Way by Karlfried Graf Dürckheim 

Karlfried Graf Dürckheim (1896-1988) was a German nobleman who explored many spiritual paths, including Hinduism, Zen and Jungian psychology. Here is his advice about facing difficulties on the way, from his book The Way of Transformation (London: Allen & Unwin, 1988).

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All-Encompassing Love by Roger Walsh, M.D., Ph.D. 

You’ve heard the injunction "Love your neighbor as yourself." But how do you go about it? Transpersonal psychologist Roger Walsh offers a simple exercise to help.

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Wasting Energy by Tarthang Tulku 

A Tibetan lama offers simple ideas for increasing your effectiveness in daily life.

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The Millennium Is a Mirage by Jay Kinney 

Why it's crucial to avoid projecting out hopes and fears onto the future.

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A Time for Silence: On Not Speaking about G—— by Sam Keen 

When words only get us deeper into trouble, maybe silence is the only rescue.

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The Kingdom Within by Swami Muktananda 

All philosophies and scriptures say the same thing: "God dwells in this human body."

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Tylenol Prayer Beads by Jarvis Jay Masters 

The central concept in Buddhism that all suffering is due to desire and attachment is particularly striking given the circumstances of Jarvis Jay Masters. Born in 1962 and now an inmate on Death Row in San Quentin Prison, Masters received his Buddhist initiation from a Tibetan lama on the other side of a glass partition, over a telephone. In these selections from his book, Finding Freedom: Writings from Death Row, Masters, alone in his cell, contemplates the karma of his own past actions and, in the midst of the daily violence of prison life, dedicates himself to the Buddhist precepts of purifying body, mind, and speech.

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