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Iris Abbott, Elizabeth: From A History of Celibacy
Al-Ghazali, Abu Hamid: Doubt Transports You
Anonymous: Love Poem | Don't Light a Candle for Richard (Richard Rose memorial)
Ashe, Arthur: Egoless Vector
Balter, Bruce: What I Have Learned
Bardasuc, Corina: My Experience with Group Work
Benoit, Hubert: On Faith and Accord with the Way
Bergh, Tristan: Launch Pad (Richard Rose memorial)
Bhatt, Pratap: Deepest Respect (Richard Rose memorial)
Bierce, Ambrose: An Occurrence at Owl Creek
Borle, Sharad: East & West (interview)
Bossman, Robert: A Childhood Story
Bourgeault, Cynthia: The Paradise We Seek
Brahms, Johannes: Words
Brier, Steve: How I Came to Understand then Overcome Autism Conditions
Bronson, Ed: Relentless Intensity (Richard Rose memorial)
Bruins, Belle: Interview of Alex Smit re. Sri Nisargadatta
Bunan, Zen Master: Die While You're Alive
Burns, Jim: The Chief Hang-up | Psychology | Living in Internal Harmony | The Key | Choice | On Dream Study | Inner Guidance
Butler, Mark: I Am Not Opposed....
Campfield, Christian: Keep Your Priorities Straight
Casari, Michael: Book Review: The Sex Connection
Castaneda, Carlos: Saving & Rechanneling Energy (Don Juan character, The Fire from Within)
Cergol, Bob: Dust Storm in the Desert | Spiritual Desire | There is No Death | Depression & Acceptance | Separate Particles | Affliction to the Individuality Sense | Q & A (opinions; the Way; not seeking) | The Will to Define | The Other Side | On Meditation, Two Vectors, and Becoming | "I can see him, but he can't see Me" | Aligning Ourselves with the Will of God? | Dancing Flame | Letting Go | "What is your calling?" | Recent Tragedy | You Can't Lie to Yourself | Nothing to be Done? | Looking Away | On Personality, Analysis & Going Within | Volitional Contemplation | Nothing of You Will Remain | Living in the Now? | More on Meditation | Still Point of the Turning World (part 1) | Still Point of the Turning World (part 2) | What Are You Seeking? | A Meditation on Identity | The Life Behind Things | True Intimacy | Inspiration of Hopelessness | What Are You Looking For? | Do You Think a Higher Power Can Help You? | Are You in Fact a Ghost? | On Effective Teaching | Joy as Initiator? | Does He Leave You any Moment? | On Spiritual Pretense | Gauging the Need to Continue the Search | Light Shining Through the Pumpkin | Gauging Realization in Oneself and Others | Devotion | Going Within | Commentary on Going Within | Going Within: The Object of Attention | Trace Your Roots | On Discipline | Spiritual Action | Power of Purpose | Becoming vs. Dying | What Mr. Rose Shared | Dear Aging Becomer | The Certainty You Seek | Generating the Doubt Sensation
Chatburn, Rob: Emotion versus Sensation
Clatfelter, Jim: Take Notice
Cobb, Ricky: Compassion Is Irrational| Poems| Working with Others and Alone on the Path
Cohen, Andrew: The Promise of Perfection | You Have to Be Ready for the Answer
Collins, Billy: The Dead (animation, with poem read by Poet Laureate author)
Conners, Michael: Meditation: It's Not What You Think (part 1) | Meditation: It's Not What You Think (part 2) | Meditation: It's Not What You Think (part 3) | Doing Nothing, All Things are Done | Starting with the Goal| Becoming Will-less Zombies? - Part 1 | Becoming Will-less Zombies? - Part 2
Constant, Paul: The Essence of the Albigen System | Consider Yourself Lucky (Richard Rose memorial) | Richard Rose Quotes & Notes on Spiritual Action (part 1) | Richard Rose Quotes & Notes on Spiritual Action (part 2) | Celibacy| Richard Rose Quotes and Notes on Life and Death | Soap Bubbles
Crilley, Jeff: Just Look | Getting Back to What's Important
Davis, Larry: Beyond | Heat & Light| Love| Freeing the Inner| Inducing a Spiritual Awakening -- Part II
Don Juan: Saving & Rechanneling Energy (The Fire from Within, by Carlos Castaneda)
Dorff, Francis: Lightening the Load
Edmondson, Shelley: What Comes First?
Elliot, T.S.: I Said to My Soul
Fergeson, Bob: Tears for Fears | Thoughts on the Limitations of the Finite Mind | Little Man | On the Turning of Heads | Stages of Becoming | On Listening Attention | The Mind in Time | Finding the Inner Self | Marriage of Heaven & Hell | Can we Care for Others as Much as Ourself? | Interpreting Experience | Knots upon Knots | Three Lines of Work | Back of Beyond | Passive Attention | True Direction | The Dividing Mind | Tricks | That Problem Mind | Save it for Later (The Usual Mode of Conversation between God and man) | Where Are You Headed? | Fisherman, Hiker, Driver: Who Am I? | Stalking Yourself with the Listening Attention | The Listening Attention | Listening Attention Commentary | Words... or Experience? | What Dream of Mind? | Self-Observation | Accident, Sublimation, Transformation | As Above, So Below | Working for Inspiration | Trap of Projection | Who Do You Love? | Tricks & Traps | Ghost in a Box | The Mechanics of Dreaming | On Learning to Listen | Mind Breakers | The Shifting Image of Identity | Fact & Fantasy | What Have We Lost? | Spiritual Ecology | Why Work? | True Compassion | Silence | Ring That Binds | Losing One's Head | The Path of Becoming | Principle & Paradox | Containing Tension | Movie Madness | The Gap of Time | Trusting the Inner Self | Hijacking of Thought | A First Step | Obvious or Oblivious? | Why Don't We Get It? | What Do You Love? | The Source of Trouble | Paradox of Change | On Direction | From Rock 'n' Roll to Silence | Observing Our Afflictions | Earnest Seeker or Sleepy Dreamer? | Trap of Compensation | That Which Is Not | Your Dominant Decision-Making Process | True Way of Advaita | Thinking and Receiving | Light of Friendship | Working with a Group | The Prayer of Looking | A Double Edged Sword | Solitary Spiritual Retreat | Three Steps to a Working Spiritual Practice | Working Within | Grounding | Gurdjieff| Intelligent Spontaneity| The Good, the Bad, and the Innocent| The Good, the Bad, and the Innocent - Part 2
Foyan, Zen Master: The Basis of Awareness | Look! Look!
Gandhi, Mahatma: On Restraint
Garmat, Dan: Bernadette Roberts Retreat | Benefits and Blocks to Group Work
Gautama Buddha: Sayings | In Shunyata (from the Heart Sutra)
Gegenheimer, Mike: Early Teachings of Richard Rose
Goethe, J.W. von: The Holy Longing
Gonnella, Gregor: My Experience Is....
Gurdjieff, G.I.: Aphorisms
Hafiz: Tired of Speaking Sweetly
Hakuin Zenji: Your Task
Harding, Douglas: Self-Enquiry: Some Objections Answered | The Nature of the Physical World | A Jesus for Our Time | How to Be Happy | Ramana Maharshi and J. Krishnamurti | Relying on the Unknown | How to Surrender | Prologue to The Little Book of Life and Death | Spiritual Path in Pictures | Being and Doing | Five Reasons for Looking | Dark Night of the Soul | Do Not Go Ungrateful | Excerpts
Harmon, Gary: Turn Around | The Narcissism of Words | There is only This | A Pathway | Laugh at the Conjecture | Stillness of Presence | Master Game | Clouds of Consciousness | Sincere Inquiry | Identity Barrier | Wake Up | Form and Emptiness | Seeking Self-Knowledge | The Sculptor | Tracks | Seminar Notes | On Meditation | Wheel of Manifestations | Honesty | Mutual Understanding | The End is in the Beginning | The Yarn of Acceptance | Actionless Awareness | Little Book of Life & Death (review) | Boundless Empty Field | Self-Knowledge | Attachment to Attachment | Prisoners of the Cave | Circle Where Nothing Grows | The Final Step | That Which Has Value | Blaming Karma | Direct Mind Power | Morning | Dispassion | You Can Only Become the Truth | Work & Spirituality | The Friend (Richard Rose memorial) | Whatever | Easter Sunday | Poems | Musings | A Relentless Man | Accomplishment | Easy to See Yet Hard to Find | Memories of Ashram Life with a Zen Master
Harmon, Linda: Recipe for Getting REAL | Presence (Richard Rose memorial)
Hartmann, Franz: Preface to Magic, White & Black | Eternal One
Harwood, Bob: Silence Ends the Search | Poetry
Hay, RF: Who Am I? | Compassion Can't Be Cultivated
Heart Sutra: In Shunyata
Holloway, Steve: Compassion as a Virtue
Holmes, Willa: Milk from Thorns
Hood, Richard: Lack of Pretension (Richard Rose memorial)
Huang Po: This Pure Mind
Humor: Zen Crossword | Bro. Theo looking for Self | Market Forecasting | Bro. Theo on Predestination | Plato and Aristotle (by Steve Harnish) | Bro. Theo "I am not a body" | Smile (W.C. Fields) | Responsibility (Ambrose Bierce) | Loch Ness therapy | Great Faith in Fools (E.A. Poe) | Endeavor (Chris Madden) | Grass Looks Greener (Selig) | Pepper and Salt cartoon | Land of Wise Men (Chris Madden) | Sattvic humor from www.sivananda.org | The joke's on Lin-Chi | Finding his True Self (Chris Madden) | Mae West | Miss Piggy | On Fools: Lincoln, Mark Twain, Anonymous | Zen Comedy Club | Religion of Cowardice (Shaw) | Relativity (Einstein) | Births & Funerals (Twain) | Philosophical Neighbor | When Caught between Two Evils (Mae West) | When the End of the World Comes (Mark Twain) | Free of All Prejudices (W.C. Fields) | Beds of Nails | Treat Children as Adults | Success Formula (Einstein) | From There to Here (Dr. Seuss) | Baiting the Baiter (Chris Madden) | Some Say the World Will End in Fire (Robert Frost) | Skiing (Chris Madden) | Love Involves (Diane Arbus) | Key to a Successful Marriage (Warren Buffett) | If Love is the Answer (Lily Tomlin) | Free to Good Home | George Carlin quips | Forgot My Passwords | Infinity (Einstein) | Driven to Drink (WC Fields) | Novocain Refusal (Dzogchenpas) | "Dear IRS" from Snoopy | Know Yourself (Ann Landers) | Stress (anon.) | Shielding Men from their Folly (Herbert Spencer) | Stress Management | Beethoven Gravesite | Pumpkin Geometry | Thought pun, creation pun (John B.) | My Principles (Groucho Marks) | Doctor's Office Plants (Billy Crystal) | A Sobering Thought (Woody Allen) | What the Old Priest had Learned (Andre Malraux) | Buddha Baby (photo) | Frisbeetarianism | Gandhi on Modern Civilization | Robot Wiring | Adversity (Samuel Johnson) | Donkey Cart | One Thing's for Certain | Definitions: Seeker; Advanced Seeker | Wine (Ben Franklin) | Heroism (Zell Miller) | Teamwork (Sangha) | Success | Always About You | Rank & File (Einstein) | Temptation | Knowledge & Money | Lotus-guru (Johnny Hart) | Hokey Pokey (à la Shakespeare) | Optical Illusion? | Guru Poem (John Wren-Lewis) | (Yogi Berra, James Thurber, Woody Allen); double-decker | Evolution | Female Longevity | Meaning of Life | Thorny Humor | Western Challenge | Buckle Up | Mental Health Hotline | One of Those Days | Meaning of Life (Monty Python) | On Government (Ronald Reagan, Will Rogers, Mark Twain) & Self-Government (Gandhi) | One-Liners by Stephen Wright | In the Bleachers (Steve Moore) | Notable Quotables on Golf | Religious Practice (Kurt Vonnegut) | Tail-Chaser | Churchill Wit | Point of View | Yogisms (Yogi Berra) | Irony (Anatole France, Dolly Parton, H.L. Mencken, Rita Rudner, Artemus Ward, Woody Allen | Mark Twain at 70 | Wet and Dry (Jim and Edna....) | What Does God Look Like? | Where's the Ladle? | Out of My Mind (Vicki Woodyard) | Birth is thus... (Dahui) | If a man says something... | Consciousness - an animation of spirit | A guy joins a monastery... | Men and melons.... (Ben Franklin) | Hey, Buddy.... | It will pass | Tombstones | A young swordsman....
Jaqua, Jake: The Guy Who Saved My Life (Richard Rose memorial)
Jesus to John: Is There Any Material Universe?
Kabir: Songs (XVII and LXXIV)
Kalar, Tony: Chance Encounter (Richard Rose memorial)
Kay, Brian: The Waking Dream
Khourey, Lou: The Voice of the Cathars (part 1) | (part 2) | (part 3)
Lao-tse: Free from Desire
Lawrence, DH: Go Deeper than Love | Deeper than Love
Lepidi, Vince: Compassion & Dispassion| The Positive Mood of Loss| Starting a Self-Inquiry Group
Marshall, Bart: Nothing Is Necessary | Things Are Not What They Seem | What Is Realized? | Last Hours of Richard Rose | What Is God? | Strategies | Useless Effort Well Spent | Douglas Harding: In Memoriam | Transmission | Twelve Haiku| Sex and the Siddhi
Ma-tsu: Your Treasure House
Mayberry, Ian: Poems
Merrell-Wolff, Franklin: Both by Thought and Feeling | Predicament of Buddha | Seek Me First | Finding the Way | From the Preface to "Experience & Philosophy" | Compassion & Love of Truth | Concerning Asceticism | Commentaries on the Aphorisms | Concerning the Spontaneity of the Self
Millay, Edna St. Vincent: Renascence
Morrison, Judy: Exploration of THAT
Morwood, Joel: To Practice or Not to Practice
MRJ: Some Things I Think are True
Munn, Heidi: Bernadette Roberts Retreat | The "C" Word
Murphy, Shane: Encouraged Me to Think (Richard Rose memorial)
Murray, W.H.: On Commitment
Nevins, Shawn: Index of Shawn's Poetry
Nevins, Shawn: Urgency and Desperation | Your Current State | "Who Am I?" | Persistence & Self-Honesty | How Can You Live Life Fully? | Points and Patterns | The Validity of Love | On Controlling the Mind | This Shedding | A Practical Question | Developing Intuition | Definitions (the heart; death; enlightenment) | Things to Do | Opening a Path | Two Types of Art | There is Not Black or White | Finding Balance | On the Value of Headlessness | Energy Accounting | Progress | Use & Abuse of Teachers | Are You Serious? | Understanding | Asceticism | To Change or Not to Change | Compromise | Earnestness | Plateaus | Isolation | Taking a Break | The Natural Koan | The Ultimate Career | Thought Experiment | Meditation on Creation | What is Meditation? | Do What You Say | What I Don't Know | Passed Away | A Koan for Today | When You Are Done | Faith & Discovery | Material for Contemplation | Is it too Late? | Two Baby Goats | Scale | First Meeting with Douglas Harding | Self-Absorbed | Further Impressions of the Headless Way | The Black Wall | Desires | Falling Before Fear | Using Time Wisely | Expressions | Shoebox | Summer, 1992 | The Ego of Seeking | Quotes & Notes: Meetings with Richard Rose, 1991-1996 | Patterns | Lawn Mowers, Books, and Fire | The Company You Keep | Nowhere to Go | Escape | The Disease of Non-Dualism | The Point That Does Not Exist | Moody Decisions | What the Bleep? | Doing and Being (part 1) | Doing and Being (part 2) | Fighting & Feeling | Is My Hair on Fire Yet? | Is My Hair on Fire Yet? (concluded) | A Young Soldier Lies Dying | My Experience with Celibacy| Giving Up | The Business of Seeking
Nezahualcoyotl: Truly Do We Live on Earth?
Nicoll, Maurice: Excerpts
Niebauer, Dan: Flowers (Richard Rose memorial)
Nisargadatta Maharaj: Interview of Alex Smit by Belle Bruins | Unfulfilled Desires | An Acquired Habit| Video
Norquist, Steven: There Is No Search
O'Toole, Susan: Homebound | Rowing over to Long Island
Palmer, Irene: My Last Identity
Papadopoulos, Chris: Run & Hide
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: In Your Dreams (series index)
Pulyan, Alfred: Truth is a Rabbit | What Shall I Do When I Meet a Zen Master? | The Procedure Toward Awakening | Wisdom & Compassion | The Penny That Blots Out the Sun | Visitors from Space | Reason for Existence | The World's Ill-Health | Life's Pretty Forlorn as Some See It
Pundeer, Anima: East & West (interview) | Finding a Teacher | Finish What You Start | Spiritual Contentment | Sex as an Obstacle in Your Search
Purvis, Kiffy: Spiritual Change as Increasing Clarity | Bernadette Roberts Retreat
Ramakrishna: Universal Teachings
Richardson, Jim: Eliminating the Dysfunctional
Riley, James: Compassion Is Love
Roberts, Bernadette: Silence | Faith | The Silent Mind | From the Experience of No-Self
Rockey, Sharon: Asking the Right Questions
Rogers, Patiann: Tabula Rasa| Achieving Perspective
Rose, Cecy: The Woman's Path
Rose, Richard: WKSU Interview with Richard Rose (part 1) | WKSU Interview (part 2) | WKSU Interview (part 3) | WKSU Interview (part 4) | WKSU Interview (part 5) | WKSU Interview (part 6) | Temptation | The Apple | The Mirror | Tales of Love (part 1) | Tales of Love (part 2) | Tales of Love (part 3) | Grand Work of the TAT Society (part 1) | Tweeny Town | Grand Work of the TAT Society (part 2) | Zen & Common Sense (part 1) | Chasms of the Mind | Zen & Common Sense (part 2) | Zen & Common Sense (part 3) | Zen & Common Sense (part 4) | Zen & Common Sense (part 5) | Zen & Common Sense (part 6) | The Mind (part 1) | The Mind (part 2) | Memories of Past and Future: Alfred D'Aliberti | Memories of Past and Future: Last Act | Who Are the Real People? | Our Attitude in this Search | Books of the Relative | Transition | The Path (part 1) | The Path (part 2) | The Path (part 3) | The Path (part 4) | The Path (part 5) | Lecture of Questions (part 1) | Lecture of Questions (part 2) | Lecture of Questions (part 3) | Friendship | Lecture of Questions (part 4) | The Simple Truth | General Aims | The Pregnant Witch | Yoga: Hatha, Shabd & Raja | Peace of Mind Despite Success (part 1) | Peace of Mind Despite Success (part 2) | Peace of Mind Despite Success (part 3) | Six Methods of Perception | Peace of Mind Despite Success (part 4) | Peace of Mind Despite Success (part 5) | Peace of Mind Despite Success (part 6) | Peace of Mind Despite Success (part 7) | The Way | Laws | The Engineer and the Robot | Introduction to Franz Hartmann | Intuition & Reason | Premises, Conclusions & Techniques | Pathfinder | Threefold Path | Jacob's Ladder (part 1) | Jacob's Ladder (part 2) | Jacob's Ladder (part 3) | Jacob's Ladder (part 4) | Jacob's Ladder (part 5) | Language of the Soul | A Part of Thee | Rustic Retreat | Deposition of Conclusions | Zen, Spiritual Steps & Spiritual Systems (part 1) | Zen, Spiritual Steps & Spiritual Systems (part 2) | Zen, Spiritual Steps & Spiritual Systems (part 3) | Zen, Spiritual Steps & Spiritual Systems (part 4) | Defining the Truth | Defining the Truth, Part II
Rose, Tatia: Dear Father
Rumi, Jalal al-Din: Who Says Words with My Mouth?
Sadony, Joseph: You Cannot Shape the Truth
Samuel, William: The Melody of the Woodcutter and the King: An Account of an Awakening | Detachment from Feeling| Excerpts
Saunders, Heather: Find Out for Yourself
Schmidt, Paul: On Oblivion, Immortality, and Being a Nobody | Master Storyteller (Richard Rose memorial)
Scoma, David: The Tantric Distraction| Interdependence
Segal, Suzanne: Nothing Is Given Up
Shackleton, Ernest: Invitation to Adventure
Shams-i Tabrizi: Quotes
Smit, Alex: Interview by Belle Bruins re. Sri Nisargadatta
Solow, Victor: I Died at 10:52 A.M.
St. John of the Cross: Nine Verses Made upon an Ecstasy of High Contemplation
Thoreau, Henry David: Light or Darkness?
Ticknor, Art: The Will to Resist | Muddled Mind Sonnet | Acrostic | Buddha's Turning Point | Do Not Fear the Darkness | Critical Path to Nirvana | Last Supper | Nirvana Project Management | Home Base | Always Right Behind You | Is Psychological Change Necessary? | Pursuit of Relentless Love | Man to God | Complications & Sticking Points | The Ego | O Come All Ye Faithful | Impressions | Rapport | Innermost Longing | First Know Thyself | This Camera | Everything Will Be Okay | Find your Highest Opposition | Pass It On (Richard Rose memorial) | Crossing over the Bridge | Hearing | What Do You Really Want? | Call & Response | Feed Before You Eat | I Have Never Left You | Something & Nothing | Nothing & Everything | Are You a Person? | Struggling Blindly | Number Our Days | Meditation: What Is It? | What of Me Will Remain? | Our Purpose | Meeting Richard Rose: 1978 (part 1) | Heaven | Meeting Richard Rose: 1978 (part 2) | Rabbit-Proof Fence | What Is Action? | Gender & the Denial of Death | Richard Rose on Controlling the Mind | Alone | The River | The Cosmic Egg & the Sense of Self | Is What You See Real? | Three Questions | Douglas Harding: In Memoriam | Progression | The Problem's not in the Transmission | Of Goats and Gates | Pride & Precipice | Inspiration, Intention & Commitment | True Love | How Is It Possible? | The Light Bulb | When I Finally Became Serious | Disinformation | Beyond Bliss | Where is Permanence? | Acceptance and Surrender | The Final Hour | Why do Seekers of Truth Fail? | Paean to Group Work
Traversa, Eddie: Uncovering the Hidden Shadow Aspects of You
Very, Jones: Soul Sickness
Wearing, Clive: Video Clip
Weimer, David: Pieces from my Road | An Appropriate Gesture (Richard Rose memorial)| Poems| Where have all the butterflies gone? - a poem
Wells, HG: The Door in the Wall
White, Doug: Bernadette Roberts Retreat| An Encounter with Tony Parsons
Whyte, David: All the True Vows
Wilcox, Ella Wheeler: Illusion
Woodyard, Vicki: Reflections (Paradox, There Is Only Everything)
Wren-Lewis, John: A Terrible Beauty: Reflections on Love & the Near-Death Experience | Unblocking a Malfunction in Consciousness | Guru Poem | The Darkness of God (part 1) | The Darkness of God (part 2)
Wright, James: Today I Was Happy
Wright, Wyatt: You Can't Hide from Yourself in Others
Yorimasa: Death Poem
Zetty, Metta: Awakening into Awareness (part 1) | (part 2) | (part 3) | (part 4)
Zoo Fence: Do We Have to Give up S-E-X? | Gender & the Spiritual Search (Anna) | Gender & the Spiritual Search (Francis)
Zydek, Fredrick: Praying Our Way Through Doubt


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