Spirit
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This precious life
A luminous passage from Paul Bowles on the finitude of experience — how many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless. A quiet call to pay attention to the life you are actually living.
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Top 5 death bed regrets
Palliative nurse Bronnie Ware recorded the most common regrets of the dying — and the most frequent of all was not having had the courage to live a life true to oneself. A sobering and clarifying reminder of what actually matters.
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The Apple of zen
Few people knew that Steve Jobs had a serious Zen practice, or that his teacher was Kobun Chino Otogawa. A dharma talk by teacher Peg Syverson considers what Jobs' life and death can teach the rest of us about attention, creativity and impermanence.