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Meditation
An Interview With Stephanie Matthews-Simonton
Most of the personality patterns associated with cancer are formulated during the first five or six years of life. That’s when children experience the lack of enough unconditional acceptance from one or both parents, feel responsible for that, feel there must be something wrong and bad about themselves.
November 1980The Real Work
Poetry effects change by fiddling with the archetypes and getting at people’s dreams about a century before it actually effects historical change. A poet would be, in terms of the ecology of symbols, noting the main structural connections and seeing which parts of the symbol are no longer useful or applicable, though everyone is giving them credence.
October 1980An Interview With Ram Dass
Disappointments are exquisite clues to where you’re holding. And if you want to awaken, a disappointment becomes a great thing, so you get to love them as much as you hate them. They’re hurting you, and at the same moment they are awakening you to how you’re clinging.
June 1980Facing The Struggle
(Part Two)
Fear of annihilation, I’ve tripped over you for years and now I see you clear. I had not realized before the grip and subtlety of your tentacles.
July 1979Doing What I Do
Studying Buddhism; Growing Trees
It didn’t take long to see that I had no talent for making money. Sure, my mother was disappointed, but I figured she’d get over it. As the years rolled by, it became apparent that trees and eastern religions were my lot in life.
March 1979Getting Unstressed
An Interview With Ken Pelletier
You can think of our bodies as being naive. They can’t tell if your life is really in danger or if you’re just thinking as if your life were in danger. The fear of losing your job might feel just as threatening as if a speeding truck were coming at you.
March 1979Sunbeams
January 1979The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
The Last Barrier
A Journey Through The World Of Sufi Teaching
“Today we are going together to meet the Perfect Man, the Master who has come to love God so perfectly that God’s attributes pour out through him into the world with no veil between.”
July 1978An Interview With George Leonard
Nothing in my unscientific judgement is more sickening or more dangerous to the human body and well-being than emotions unexpressed.
January 1978Cartoons By David Terrenoire
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October 1977
