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" It isn't every day that we hear a U.S. congressman talking about mindfulness, much less in these terms: "I felt like I would be derelict in my duty as a member of the United States Congress if I didn't try to push this stuff out into society. We've got a responsibility, when we get sworn in to be a member of congress, to try and help our constituents and help our country. [...] Our country's going through too much right now. Our soldiers are suffering too much, parents and teachers, all down the line... and now's the time for us to implement this. " That's just a sample of what Ohio Congressman Tim Ryan has to say about mindfulness in this book trailer for his book A Mindful Nation.
Transcription: "Growing up I spent about 12 years in Catholic school -- Our Lady of Mount Carmel grade school, and John F. "Or to listen to their teachers. Our country is going through too much right now. <div class="disqus-noscript"><a href=" the discussion thread. Weekly Wisdom. Tuesday, August 27, 2013 Tami Simon speaks with Dr.
Ashok Gangadean, who has been a professor of philosophy at Haverford College for more than 45 years. Ashok investigates the primal internal logic of human reason and the deep dynamics of communication between diverse worldviews. He is the author of Meditative Reason and Between Worlds, and with Sounds True has created the six-session audio course Awakening the Global Mind. In this episode, Tami speaks with Ashok about breaking out of limiting patterns of “ego-mental thinking” by deepening our dialogue with ourselves and others, and what it might mean to find the “missing grammar” of supreme universal consciousness he calls “Logos.” (57 minutes) Download »Read Transcript » more from Ashok Gangadean:
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