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Stop Your Mind, Open Your Heart, and Discover Your True Nature
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Everybody wants to be happy. Unfortunately, relatively few achieve bliss. Eli Jaxon-Bear explores how it is possible to achieve lives filled with gratitude and love. True happiness and meaning are achieved, he asserts, when we wake up, stop our minds, and open our hearts.
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"Like me, you have faced life altering choices: whether to stay or to go, whether to have children or not, whether to follow what is in your heart or to cling to the safety of the known. You can look back now and see the results of the choices you have made."
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"The first part of the book is like the finger pointing to the moon. The second is the light of the moon itself." ~Nancy Baker, dharma successor of Roshi Bernie Glasssman and professor of philosophy at Sarah Lawrence College
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Discovering Who You Are: An Essay
"When we are deeply willing to experience whatever may be here, we will penetrate to the substratum where everything is born."
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