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4 Bill W. and Dick B., Alcoholics Anonymous: The Original 1939 Edition, Dover Empower Your Life Series (New York: Dover Publications, 2011), p. 70.
7. The Love That Rolls Up Its Sleeves and Gets Muddy
1 Paul Brunton, The Short Path to Enlightenment: Instructions for Immediate Awakening (Burdett, NY: Larson Publications, 2014), p. 40.
2 Ken Wilber, The Integral Vision: A Very Short Introduction to the Revolutionary Integral Approach to Life, God, the Universe, and Everything (Boston: Shambhala Publications, 2007), p. 201.
8. A Lonely Consciousness in a Bag of Flesh
1 http://intentblog.com/how-i-went-from-58-pounds-nearly-dead-to-healthy-happy-loving-life.
2 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3599773.
3 https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/eating-disorders/index.shtml?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss.
4 https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/acestudy.
9. A Happiness That Isn’t Going to Shatter
1 http://thesunmagazine.org/issues/439/sunbeams.
2 Sharon Salzberg, Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness (Boston: Shambhala Publications, 1995), p. 18.
10. Writing and Fighting for Forgiveness
1 J. Ivy, Dear Father: Breaking the Cycle of Pain (New York: Atria/Beyond Words, 2015), p. 19.
2 Ibid., pp. 207–8.
11. Rising from the Woundedness
1 http://www.isr.umich.edu/williams/All%20Publications/DRW%20pubs%202000/racism%20and%20mental%20health.%20the%20African%20American%20experience.pdf.
2 Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela (New York: Back Bay Books, 1995), p. 622.
12. A Tiny Bit More
1 Chris Grosso, Everything Mind: What I’ve Learned About Hard Knocks, Spiritual Awakening, and the Mind-Blowing Truth of It All (Boulder, CO: Sounds True Publishing, 2015), p. 14.
13. The Inevitable Catastrophe
1 https://astis.com/6/37.html (copyright © 1972 by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada).
2 C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters (New York: HarperCollins, 2001; originally published in 1942), pp. 37–38.
3 https://beherenownetwork.com/krishna-das-ep-20-gotta-go-in-to-get-out.
4 Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment (Vancouver: Namaste Publishing, 1999), p. 46.
5 http://www.cbsnews.com/news/psychedelic-drugs-as-treatment-for-anxiety-addiction.
6 http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/hallucinogenic_drug_psilocybin_eases_existential_anxiety_in_people_with_life_threatening_cancer_.
7 https://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/aug/23/lsd-help-alcoholics-theory.
8 Jeff Bridges and Bernie Glassman, The Dude and the Zen Master (New York: Blue Rider Press, 2012), p. 29.
14. Those Dark, Horrible Fucking Places
1 http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/magic-shows/w-b-yeats-magus.
15. This Beautiful, Broken Reality of the Human Condition
1 Pema Chödrön, The Wisdom of No Escape and the Path of Loving-Kindness (Boston: Shambhala Publications, 2001), p. 17.
16. The Gifts of Crisis
1 http://www.yogajournal.com/article/health/bouncing-back.
18. This Shit Actually Works
1 http://wisdomquarterly.blogspot.com/2010/12/simile-of-cloth-mn-7.html.
19. We’re All We’ve Got
1 https://qz.com/863196/why-are-americans-with-severe-mental-illness-dying-25-years-younger-than-their-peers.
2 Primavera A. Spagnolo, Luana Colloca, and Markus Heilig, “The Role of Expectation in the Therapeutic Outcomes of Alcohol and Drug Addiction Treatments,” Alcohol and Alcoholism 50, no. 3 (2015): doi:10.1093/alcalc/agv015.
3 Bernie S. Siegel, Love, Medicine & Miracles (New York: HarperCollins, 1986), p. 39.
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