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| Introduction | |
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| Living Consciously: First Principles | |
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| Acquiring a sense of reality | |
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| Awareness: Outer and inner | |
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| Reason: The noncontradictory integration of experience | |
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| Reason and emotion: Challenging the necessity for conflict | |
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| Choice and Responsibility | |
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| Free will: The choice to turn consciousness brighter or dimmer | |
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| Context determines what state of consciousness is appropriate | |
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| Strategies of avoidance | |
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| Against consciousness: Motives for flight from awareness | |
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| To be in love with life on earth | |
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| A Conscious Life -- 1: Knowing What We Are Doing While We Are Doing It | |
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| What mindfulness entails as a way of life: Areas to be considered | |
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| The joy of awareness | |
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| Choices and actions | |
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| Seeking knowledge | |
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| Managing avoidance impulses | |
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| Self-awareness | |
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| A Conscious Life -- 2: Bringing To Our Pursuits the Awareness They Require | |
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| Conscious relationships | |
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| Conscious parenting | |
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| Consciousness in the workplace | |
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| Consciousness of context | |
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| Consciousness of our ideas and their roots | |
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| Self-Awareness: Examining Our Inner World | |
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| Consciousness of the body | |
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| Consciousness of our needs and wants | |
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| Consciousness of our feelings and emotions | |
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| Consciousness of our actions and reactions | |
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| Concluding observations | |
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| Consciousness and Self-Esteem | |
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| Misconceptions about self-esteem | |
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| Awareness of what affects our self-esteem | |
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| Consciousness and Spirituality | |
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| Definitions: The importance of being clear about meanings | |
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| Spirituality: A this-worldly interpretation | |
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| God: An all-purpose word referring to -- ? | |
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| Self-transcendence: But who is doing the transcending? | |
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| Mysticism: What are its claims to legitimacy? | |
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| Selflessness: Rethinking our basic assumptions and discovering enlightened selfishness | |
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| Afterword | |
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| Appendix: A Sentence-Completion | |
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| Program to Facilitate Living Consciously | |
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| Notes | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Index | |