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Spiritual Teachers

What each teacher actually taught, the practice, and the criticism.

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Eckhart Tolle: The Power of Now & Living in Presence

Caught in your own thoughts? Eckhart Tolle on coming back to now

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Alan Watts: Eastern Philosophy for the Western Mind

How Alan Watts made Zen and Taoism feel close to your everyday life

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Joe Dispenza: Rewiring Your Brain Through Meditation

Joe Dispenza's meditation approach to changing your habits of mind

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Sadhguru: Inner Engineering for Joyful Living

Sadhguru's idea that your joy is something you can tend

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Ram Dass: Be Here Now and the Path of the Heart

What Ram Dass can teach you about being here now, with an open heart

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Michael Singer: The Untethered Soul and Inner Freedom

You are not your thoughts. Michael Singer on letting them pass

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Rupert Spira: The Nature of Consciousness and Non-Duality

Rupert Spira on the idea that awareness is what you really are

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Mooji: The Invitation to Freedom Through Self-Inquiry

Mooji invites you to see what you are beneath your busy mind

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Deepak Chopra: Mind-Body Connection and Conscious Living

Deepak Chopra on how your mind and body shape each other

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Neville Goddard: Core Teachings, Key Ideas and Practices

What Neville Goddard taught about assuming the life you want, and its critics

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Abraham Hicks (Esther Hicks): Core Teachings, Key Ideas and Practices

Abraham Hicks without the pitch: the emotional scale and how to use it

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Louise Hay: Core Teachings, Key Ideas and Practices

Try Louise Hay's mirror work, and know where her claims fall short

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Wayne Dyer: Core Teachings, Key Ideas and Practices

What Wayne Dyer taught about intention, and one practice to try

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Osho (Rajneesh): Core Teachings, Key Ideas and Practices

Osho's teachings, and how to do Dynamic Meditation step by step

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Thich Nhat Hanh: Core Teachings, Key Ideas and Practices

Thich Nhat Hanh's simple practices for being present in your day

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Byron Katie: Core Teachings, Key Ideas and Practices

Byron Katie's four questions for the thought that keeps hurting you

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Paramahansa Yogananda: Core Teachings, Key Ideas and Practices

Yogananda's Kriya Yoga and the Hong-Sau practice you can try this week

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Jiddu Krishnamurti: Core Teachings, Key Ideas and Practices

Krishnamurti asked you to trust no authority, not even him

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Ramana Maharshi: Core Teachings, Key Ideas and Practices

Ramana Maharshi's one question for you: who am I, really?

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G. I. Gurdjieff: Core Teachings, Key Ideas and Practices

Gurdjieff's Fourth Way and a self remembering practice to try

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Helena Blavatsky: Core Teachings, Key Ideas and Practices

Who Helena Blavatsky was and what Theosophy actually claims

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Rudolf Steiner: Core Teachings, Key Ideas and Practices

Rudolf Steiner's ideas, plus six exercises you can start this week

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Edgar Cayce: Core Teachings, Key Ideas and Practices

What Edgar Cayce actually taught about health, past lives and healing

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Manly P. Hall: Core Teachings, Key Ideas and Practices

Manly P. Hall's huge book of hidden wisdom, explained plainly

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Dolores Cannon: Core Teachings, Key Ideas and Practices

Dolores Cannon's QHHT, what her books claim and where critics push back

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Nisargadatta Maharaj: Core Teachings, Key Ideas and Practices

One instruction from Nisargadatta: stay with your sense of I am

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Swami Vivekananda: Core Teachings, Key Ideas and Practices

What Vivekananda taught, and a meditation you can try this week

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Neem Karoli Baba: Core Teachings, Key Ideas and Practices

Neem Karoli Baba asked you to love and serve, not to master

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Pema Chodron: Core Teachings, Key Ideas and Practices

When your life falls apart, how Pema Chodron says to stay present

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Tara Brach: Core Teachings, Key Ideas and Practices

Hard on yourself? Tara Brach's RAIN practice, step by step

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Jack Kornfield: Core Teachings, Key Ideas and Practices

Jack Kornfield's gentle teachings for a mind that is hard on itself

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Adyashanti: Core Teachings, Key Ideas and Practices

Adyashanti on what really happens when your old world falls away

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Marianne Williamson: Core Teachings, Key Ideas and Practices

Marianne Williamson on love, forgiveness and the fear you hold

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Gabrielle Bernstein: Core Teachings, Key Ideas and Practices

Gabrielle Bernstein's ideas, a method to try, and fair criticism

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Joseph Murphy: Core Teachings, Key Ideas and Practices

Joseph Murphy's ideas on your subconscious, and where they fall short

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Florence Scovel Shinn: Core Teachings, Key Ideas and Practices

Florence Scovel Shinn on speaking the life you want into being

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Bruce Lipton: Core Teachings, Key Ideas and Practices

What Bruce Lipton claims about how your beliefs shape your biology

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Gregg Braden: Core Teachings, Key Ideas and Practices

Gregg Braden's ideas on the heart and prayer, and the criticism

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Wim Hof: Core Teachings, Key Ideas and Practices

The Wim Hof breathing and cold method, and what research supports

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Rhonda Byrne: Core Teachings, Key Ideas and Practices

What The Secret really claims, and what you can actually use

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The 14th Dalai Lama: Core Teachings, Key Ideas and Practices

The Dalai Lama on compassion, and a mind practice you can start today

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Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Core Teachings, Key Ideas and Practices

What Sri Sri Ravi Shankar teaches, and a breath practice to try

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Camus and the Absurd: Living Without the Answer

When life offers no answer, how Camus suggests you live anyway

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