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		<title>How to Make &#8216;Work-Life Balance&#8217; Work</title>
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		<title>Liberating Consciousness</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2011 13:16:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;What a liberation to realize that the voice in my head is not who I am. Who am I then? &#8212; The one who sees that.&#8221; &#8211; Eckhart Tolle STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS In Consciousness, the starting, waking state is that of the ordinary, Rational Mind. This state is defined by Ordinary Consciousness and Sense Awareness. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tiger &amp; Dogs Playing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2011 08:40:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Higher Vibration</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 20:16:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Perfection of divinity is everyone&#8217;s duty Perfection of divinity is everyone&#8217;s duty ♫ Don&#8217;t waste your time livin&#8217; for the vanity We are creatures of faith victims of destiny which we create ♫ Now we living on a higher vibration &#8217;cause we take it to the heights of creation Now we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wu-Wei @ 11%</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Nov 2010 16:09:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;A person who seeks knowledge knows more and more. A person who seeks enlightenment knows less and less until things are just what they are.&#8221; &#8211; Lao Tzu]]></description>
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		<title>5 Great Buddha Quotes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 19:41:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[1. &#8220;Things are not what they seem. Nor are they otherwise. Deeds exist, but no doer can be found.&#8221; What does he mean by &#8216;no doer&#8217;? This connects directly with the concept of no self; just as all other things, phenomena are transient, illusory, etc., so is the self. Actions are real in that they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Put us in our place</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/put-us-in-our-place/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2010 07:33:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thank you Trey Parker and Matt Stone, and of course Alan Watts, for this epic short film. It is a film that touches on: Evolution, the nature of intelligence and the self, and the hoax of our modern success-centered lives. It is a video meant to put us in our places, and also ask us [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Escape So Fast</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/dont-escape-so-fast/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:01:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Universe got you down? First bring some grace to your mind. With this, ironically, grace to others is simultaneous. A nicely shaped concept, attainable but perhaps unsustainable. So slow maintenance soothes. Say to yourself: This is what I want — cosmic comfort. Tao friends unite, eat grapes, and be merry. Otherwise this wine will turn [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dos Centavos de Sabiduría</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 10:28:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was watching this TED video on the difference between natural and synthetic happiness and found this great quote about choice and hindsight and how we are so good at being too hard on ourselves: &#8220;The great source of both the misery and disorders of human life, seems to arise from over-rating the difference between [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Neglect to Direct When You Act</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 04:57:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happiness is a process that you continue to change, in fact, you never use the same process twice. All processes are defined by brain context, which is defined by environmental and metacognitive context. But is this all predefined by something beyond physical determinism? That would be, in a word, mind. Mind determines happiness in relation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Were I This Blank</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 04:22:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[☯: I used to be a taoist but couldn&#8217;t feel in black and white ✴: I used to be a buddhist but symbols labeled me at night ☆: I used to be a child but biology chose me not to rest ♥: I used to be a somebody but then of just-about-anyone I thought the [...]]]></description>
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