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Overextended? Resentful? Learning to say no clears the space for the yes that you want.

Yes, this is the opposite of schadenfreude, rejoicing at someone's hard time. Instead, cultivate anticipatory joy. Here are 30 ways to do it.

Unfortunately, it becomes clearer that high tech farming has depleted soil, crops and our overall food system. Here is a story about farmers returning to good old fashioned techniques when the system wasn't broken.

We don't know it, but most of our life is a series of knee-jerk reactions. To break the cycle, develop awareness.

What if what really needs to be cleaned up is the air we breathe?

See these diverse and beautiful photos as the world turns.

There are actually bed making competitions. Don't tell your mother!

In Japan, cuddle with a pig instead.

More amazing frescoes discovered.

These photos are stunning ... and stark. Some content could be disturbing.

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