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This article is about something so obvious and so simple, I ought to be embarrassed to tell you about it. But I'm not. I'm embarrass...

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On vacation many years ago, I was reading the Bhagavad Gita , one of Hinduism's holy books. It is basically a conversation between Arjun...

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To cultivate calm, you'd spend time doing nothing. At least that's what it looks like from the outside: Sitting doing nothing, or ta...