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David Sheff Follows the Buddhist Journey of a San Quentin Inmate in Latest Book

By Jessica Zack — 2020

Like a lot of people with newfound interest in Buddhist meditation, Jarvis Jay Masters struggled at first to sit still and quiet his mind.

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Diamond Approach Inquiry: Discovering Inner Freedom

We can temporarily push our ego away or try to rearrange our personality to be happier, freer, or more realized. But ego comes back. And that’s where Diamond Approach inquiry comes in. We all have awareness and inquiry helps us harness awareness to dissolve ego instead of pushing it away.

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Olivia Fermi
2021
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21 Signs You're Going Through a Spiritual Awakening + How to Embrace It

You've probably heard talk of spiritual awakenings and how they can lead to more enlightened (dare we say, "woke") people. But what does a spiritual awakening really mean, and what does it actually entail?

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Sarah Regan
2021
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Show Up for Yourself First

The black box is awkward at best and excruciating at worst. But it’s where change happens.

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Shelly Tygielski
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Is the Secret to Liberation from the Cares of this World a Two-Word Curse?

Context, invariably, is everything.

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Nick Duerden
2014
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7 Signs You’re on the Verge of a Spiritual Transformation (And How To Embrace It)

When spiritual transformation comes knocking on your door, it unapologetically asks you to let go of parts of yourself and your life that are no longer of service.

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Allie Stark
2020
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How to Motivate Yourself to Change

Change is hard, but it’s possible. Use motivational interviewing techniques to build your confidence, and take the plunge.

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Angela Wood, Ralph Wood
2021
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Dante’s Hell, with Those Who Can Relate

Ron Jenkins, a professor at Wesleyan University, created a program in which inmates study and perform parts of Dante’s “Inferno.”

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Susan Hodara
2010
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Judgment Is a Teacher on the Path of Transformation

By acknowledging and honoring any feeling—no matter how “unacceptable” we might have previously judged it to be—we create space for its opposite.

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Shakti Gawain
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Innocence Lost

In September 2019, Jarvis Jay Masters exhausted his final state appeal. The Buddhist author and death-row inmate at San Quentin had a hearing before the California Supreme Court in Los Angeles and did not prevail in getting the California appeals court to re-examine his case.

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Tom Gogola
2019
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Russell Brand, Seriously

British comedian Russell Brand—the ex-junkie bad boy famous for his debauchery, his brief marriage to Katy Perry, and his tight leather trousers—would seem like the last man to emerge as a legit political thinker and voice for the dispossessed.

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David Kamp
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