Wonderfully Inspiring Books
Wonderfully Inspiring Books "Candide” (1759) by Voltaire, this simple satire is considered to be Voltaire's greatest philosophical work. Free pdf "The Emperor's New Clothes" (1837) by Hans Christian Andersen. Just 3 pages lon...
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To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
Read MoreWilliam James quote
The faculty of bringing back a wandering attention over and over again is the very root of judgment, character and will....an education which should improve this faculty would be the education par excellence.
Read MoreBlog - The Luxury of Being Oneself
“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.” - Joseph Campbell “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” - Albert Einstein “Education is not about filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.” - William...
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Our life is a dream. We are asleep. But once in a while we wake up enough to realize we are dreaming.
Read MoreMiyamoto Mushahi quote
The truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is, and you must bend to its power or live a lie.
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In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.
Read MoreAlan Watts quote
What you are basically, deep, deep down, far, far in, is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself.
Read MoreMeditation's Incredible Potential (3 min)
The extraordinary findings of 2 consciousness researchers from their studies of longtime monk meditators, and what it means in terms of each person's amazing potential.
Read MoreWhat is the Ego? (from the movie Revolver, 1 min 42 sec)
An impressively profound and insightful clip from the end of a film called "Revolver" by Guy Ritchie. In Indian mythology King Janaka said after he became enlightened - "Now I know who the thief is that was stealing my life from me!" This video cl...
Read MoreThe Power of Silence (7 min) - Ramana Maharshi (1880-1950)
This is a remarkable teaching on the power of silence to expand our awareness of who we are, by the great Indian sage Ramana Maharshi (1880-1950) who hardly spoke 5 words a day, according to many people who met him.
Read MoreBlog - Interview with Relationships are Complicated website (May 20, 2018)
This is an interview I had with a website called Relationships are Complicated (RAC) - May 20, 2018. Here is the link: Relationships are Complicated Interview How and/or why did you become a therapist? I became a therapist after I had liv...
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Blog - The Emperor's New Clothes in the Mental Health Field
“THE EMPEROR’S NEW CLOTHES” in the Mainstream MENTAL HEALTH FIELD (September 29, 2017) “The Emperor’s New Clothes” in the mainstream Mental Health Field: What is it? I started taking psychology classe...
Read MoreScrew the Box - Stig Pryds, impressive life change (3 min)
Impressive and inspiring video featuring a Danish free-dive record holder named Stig Pryds, who was diagnosed with psoriatic arthritis in 2008, thus he became wheelchair bound, and had to take many medicines. But 5 years later he somehow tri...
Read MoreWords that cut through illusion by Nisargadatta Maharaj (25min)
This is a 25 minute meditation with the words of a simple Indian sage named Nisargadatta Maharaj (1897 to 1981). It's beautifully read by a Buddhist nun named Samaneri Jayasara who lives in a monastery in the mountains of New South Wales in ...
Read MoreAmazing Samurai - Beyond Science (3 min)
This impressive modern-day Japanese samurai does what science would predict is totally impossible, a testament of each of our incredible potential. An eye-opener for all of us.
Read MoreWilliam Blake quote 2
Improvement makes straight roads, but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius.
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If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.
Read MoreMeditation transformed 2 violent schools in San Francisco (3 min 11 sec)
This is an inspiring newscast of how meditation was able to transform 2 violent schools in San Francisco. Imagine the effect of this worldwide.
Read MoreVipassana Meditation transforms an awful Indian prison (52 min)
I was so moved when I saw this video in late 1999. It really inspired me, especially coming from a psychology background and being aware of its limitations.
Read MoreWim Hof - The Iceman, Ted Talk
Wim Hof can withstand extremely cold temperatures for long periods of time, and also has a scientifically-tested boosted immune system. The scientists who tested him said he was an exception, but he countered them by saying he could teach it...
Read More"Fierce Grace" documentary about Richard Alpert aka Ram Das (1hr 33min)
The almost unbelievable adventure of how Richard Alpert, a Harvard psychologist and one of the movers of the LSD revolution in the 1960's, went to India, had several unbelievable adventures with an old mystic and became Ram Das, Americal spiritual...
Read MoreRupert Sheldrake - "The Science Delusion" banned Ted Talk (18 min)
Another banned Ted Talk by the brilliant biologist Rupert Sheldrake. Such an out-of-the-box explorer, reveals how scientific constants are not really constant. Wow, I had never even contemplated such a possibility.
Read MoreGraham Hancock - "The War on Consciousness" banned Ted Talk (18 min)
Graham Hancock is an out-of-the-box thinker. His books and lectures have been so mind-opening for me. Here is a Ted Talk that was banned due to what he said about society purposely dumbing down its citizens. This is what I have a...
Read MoreRainer Maria Rilke quote 1
Our deepest fears are like dragons guarding our deepest treasure.
Read MoreSteve Jobs quote
I began to realize that an intuitive understanding and consciousness was more significant than abstract thinking and logical analysis.
Read MoreWho are you really? (9 min)
A lovely and healthy reminder of what we are not, and that we are much more than the person we see in the mirror. Reminds me of the American poet e.e. cummings quote - "To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and ...
Read MoreDSM 5: Psychiatry's Deadliest Scam (4 min)
This is the manual used to categorize mental disorders. But is it legitimate? When I studied it in graduate school (Master's program in Marriage & Family Therapy) I intuitively felt that the DSM is not legitimate, it's put together...
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