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These are links to some documentaries I enjoy.

Andrew Marrs: History of the World

BBC: Planet Earth with Sir David Attenborough

The Buddha by David Grubin with Richard Gere

500 Nations: Complete History of the Native Peoples of America

The Elegant Universe with Brian Greene

The History of God by Karen Armstrong

BBC: Today I died - Near Death Experiences

From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians

War and Civilization: With Historian John Keegan

Was Jesus a Buddhist Monk?

Journey to the Edge of the Universe

Mathematics Explains the Universe

The Story of Earth

Secrets of the Human Brain

PBS Nova The Mystery of DNA (five parts)

PBS Nova Secrets of the Pyramids of Egypt

PBS: The Historical Origins of the Bible

BBC: Did Jesus Die on the Cross?

Bart Ehrman Lectures: The Historical Jesus

Nat Geo: History of the World in Two Hours

The Science of the Mind - Sacred Teachings of Tibetan Buddhism

The Dawn of Religion: Beliefs of First Humans

Alan Watts: The Nature of Consciousness

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“人間は泣きながら生まれてきたんだ。ながい人生だもの泣くこともあるさ。その度に生まれ変わるんだ、きっと。”

“When you go out into the woods, and you look at trees, you see all these different trees. And some of them are bent, and some of them are straight, and some of them are evergreens, and some of them are whatever. And you look at the tree and you allow it. You see why it is the way it is. You sort of understand that it didn’t get enough light, and so it turned that way. And you don’t get all emotional about it. You just allow it. You appreciate the tree. The minute you get near humans, you lose all that. And you are constantly saying ‘You are too this, or I’m too this.’ That judgment mind comes in. And so I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just the way they are.”

— Ram Dass

“Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”

— Buddha

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Identification with your mind creates an opaque screen of concepts, labels, images, words, judgments, and definitions that blocks all true relationship. It comes between you and yourself, between you and your fellow man and woman, between you and nature, between you and God. It is this screen of thought that creates the illusion of separateness, the illusion that there is you and a totally separate “other.” You then forget the essential fact that, underneath the level of physical appearances and separate forms, you are one with all that is. By “forget,” I mean that you can no longer feel this oneness as self-evident reality. You may believe it to be true, but you no longer know it to be true. A belief may be comforting. Only through your own experience, however, does it become liberating.

Eckhart Tolle