Resources

More support for how being with trees and critters boosts creativity, mood and cognition.

First, there is no right way! Second, it's not difficult. This article gives easy steps for newbies.

Follow this interactive website to see how much the Earth has changed since well, not it's beginning but as close to it as we can estimate! (Spoiler alert: There's been at least SIX planetwide extinctions!)

The analogy of humans as waves and the ocean as our "True Self" comes to play in this wonderful article about the interconnectedness of ocean life.

Read how the world's leading life coach stopped living in fear.

Listen to Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche as he shares how to tap into your awareness, making meditation easier than you think.

ALERT: The first photo, albeit amazing, is how the animal world survives. The rest are just gorgeous!

Yes, the Earth can still produce this super bloom!

Six ways to stay connected, happy and balanced.

Not all the way, though the author gives a good argument for it.

Eckhart Tolle explains Buddhist principles clearly, and offers present day interpretations of many spiritual texts. From The Power of Now, "Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you." 

A 1960s, self-proclaimed "spiritual entertainer," Alan Watts uses engaging and provocative analogies to describe Zen Buddhism. From Become What You Are, "You may believe you are out of Harmony with Life and its Eternal Now but you can not be. For you are Life and you exist Now … so become what you are.”

For an up-to-date and inclusive translation of Patanjali's Yoga Surtras, refer to Reverend Jaganath's Inside the Yoga Sutras. With another translation on the way, he offers, "The goal of Yoga is not to obtain something that is lacking. It is the realization of an already present reality. Yoga practice does not bring about Self Realization directly - Yoga removes the obstacles that obstruct its experience."

A chain-smoking gnani (self-realized) Guru from the 1960s, Maharaj encouraged practitioners to dive deep into the question, who am I? From published conversations with him in a book entitled, I Am That, "When the mind is kept away from its preoccupations, it becomes quiet. If you do not disturb this quiet and stay in it, you find that it is permeated with a light and a love you have never known, and yet, you recognize it at once as your own nature."

As the inspiration for The Secret, the teachings of Abraham resonate regardless of the source. Far more than manifesting things, these teachings are Zen at the core - we choose our own experience  A favorite quote, "Do not look for love of self, look for Love that is Self." We are, as Abraham says, liquid love; that is our True Nature and loving is our natural state of being,

• Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
• Epictetus, The Art of Living
• Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of Heaven is Within You
• C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
• Vernon Kitabu Turner, Soul Sword: The way and mind of a Zen warrior
• Nischala Joy Devi, The Secret Power of Yoga
• Eknath Easwaran, translation of, The Dhammapada
• Cheri Huber, There Is Nothing Wrong With You
• Amit Goswami, Ph.D., The Self-Aware Universe
• Any and all poems by Hafiz or Rumi