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Escaping the Prison (Popularity:  )
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I am bombarded by the sound bites of Wisdom. People forever email me the Dalai Lama's rules for living; I get a daily quote of the day by email, another from the bridge column I read (the Bridge Column!!). Wise words surround me. They don't register, of course. They make no difference, but I feel better for having read them and having sagely judged them as either amusing or wise ...
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First Class Ticket by Ann Marie Zakos - Book Review (Popularity: )
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There are no coincidences. We come face to face with life lessons every day and can grow from them if only we choose to. Ann Marie Zakos reminds us of this in her fantastic work of fiction, "First Class Ticket." Philosophy should be this fun and enlightening for all of us!
Madison is upset when she learns that she has to squeeze a philosophy class into her busy college schedule. What's ...
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Gayatri Mantra - Supreme Mantra Of Vedas (Popularity: )
http://www.shreevedic.com
Mantras used by spiritual aspirants to achieve God- Realization are called deity Mantras . They are Saguna , with qualities or form producing, and aid the conceptualisation process, just as do visual symbols.
In time, recitation gives rise to the actual form of the particular deity. As a specialized sound body of consciousness, the Mantra is the deity itself. The form of the deity manifests as the visible portion of the ...
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Gravitation - The Attraction Point is Not There (Popularity: )
The force of gravitation was discovered by Newton along the following line of reasoning: if the Copernicus' System of the World is true, a fact plainly reflected by the astronomical data, then the motion of the Earth around Sun, or of the Moon around Earth, is a circular motion. One of the main facts of experience is that in a circular motion a body experiences a centrifugal force, tending to ...
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How To Study And Research Philosophy (Popularity: )
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Almost anyone can philosophize with no formal training or experience. It simply consists of questioning and wondering about the foundational aspects of the universe and ourselves, including metaphysics, knowledge, morality, and religion. Nonetheless, if philosophy interests you, you may want to study it and learn more about it, which in turn will improve your philosophical abilities. Let me suggest some ways to study philosophy.
School - You can go to school ...
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I Think Tank Therefore There You Are (Popularity: )
http://www.worldthinktank.net
Someone very important once said; "I Think Therefore I am" and yet with in a think tank, we think therefore there you are. Let me explain, you see a think tank solves the world's problems and comes up with solutions in advance of the challenges that lie ahead to prevent them from ever happening in the first place. Often, think tanks have a pipeline to legislative decision makers, who rely ...
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Interview with Iris Bell, Author of "Chew on Things" (Popularity: )
http://www.readerviews.com
Dr. Iris Bell is a psychiatrist, university professor, and has been a researcher in areas related to complementary and alternative medicine for 30 years. She was chosen as one of the Best Doctors in the Pacific region of the US in 1996 and in the entire US in 1998. Her passion is to teach people who find themselves with a chronic illness and at the start of their own difficult ...
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Know Thyself (Popularity: )
"Know thyself": who hasn't heard of that? Imagine if you really did 'know yourself'. The question is then: how well do you know yourself? At how many levels do you understand yourself? The human being is a multi-dimensioned animal. The Body. Mind. Emotions. Spirit.
Do you know your body? Do you know what it really is? Do you know the true essence of your mind? Of your emotion? Of your spirit?
Let ...
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Plato And Civilization (Popularity: )
If ever God descended on earth to talk to human beings, surely he will speak like Plato. No other language will suit Him so well, in order to touch the mind, heart and soul of human beings. By reading his celestial dialogues, one rather feels that God incarnated as Plato, in order to distribute knowledge, wisdom and love to humanity. His thoughts are so profound and perfectly chiselled, that no ...
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Punishment Meted out for Non-Indulgence to Amorous Passionate Advances (Popularity: )
Orpheus was one of the sons by the Muse Calliope. Some suppose him to be the son of Apollo, to render his birth more illustrious. He received a lyre from Apollo, or, according to some, from Mercury, upon which he played with such a masterly hand, that even the most rapid rivers ceased to flow, the savage beasts of the forests forgot their wildness, and the mountains moved to listen ...
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