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Robert Kopecky
JoinedAugust 13, 2015
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Robert Kopecky survived a traumatic childhood and then travelled extensively, living a variety of lives until becoming an award-winning illustrator, art director and animation designer for The New York Times, PBS Kids and many other organizations. His unusual path was punctuated by three dramatic, distinctly different "Near-Death Experiences" —all of which he obviously survived! His first book, How to Survive Life (and Death), A Guide for Happiness in This World and Beyond, was published in 2014 by Conari Press.
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TRY OUT YOUR ANGEL EYES: Adopting an angel’s perspective will help you exercise compassion

Robert Kopecky·March 22, 2018
[su_panel background=”#fdf0c6″ color=”#000000″ border=”0px none #ffffff” shadow=”0px 0px 0px #ffffff”] The follpwing article has been excerpted from How to Get to...
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MIND HYDROLOGY: Joyfully redirecting the course of your thoughts

Robert Kopecky·September 25, 2017
Like certain timeless wisdom, there’s a sutra right at the very beginning of The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali—that wonderful collection...
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SITTING IN THE WILDERNESS: How the Buddha and Christ overcame their obstacles in meditation

Robert Kopecky·August 14, 2015
Ah… summertime is here, and where I live, here in the northeastern part of the good old U.S.A., summertime means...
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EMBRACE SUFFERING: Looking into the story of yourself

Robert Kopecky·February 9, 2015
Everyone has their own story of themselves. If yours is anything like mine, it’s mildly heroic—in an appropriately humble way,...
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COMPASSION IMAGINATION: You remake the world when you imagine it compassionate

Robert Kopecky·September 23, 2014
A number of years ago, I was walking down the street in Manhattan when I happened to pass a pricey...
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THE POWER OF LOVE: A universal current of compassion

Robert Kopecky·July 30, 2014
Excerpted from How to Survive Life (and Death): A Guide for Happiness in This World and Beyond .  Love is the current...
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YOU’RE NOT ALONE: Merging images in meditation

Robert Kopecky·July 13, 2014
“Stick to the image.” That iconic statement by my late uncle, the philosopher and Jungian psychologist James Hillman, takes me...
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MEDITATION TIPS: Devotional meditation and experiential meditation (part 2 of 2)

Robert Kopecky·August 17, 2013
Here’s the second part of the Meditation Tips series, it’s the second and third methods of meditating that have helped...
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MEDITATION TIPS: Analytical meditation and posture (part 1 of 2)

Robert Kopecky·August 14, 2013
Recently I’ve had a number of requests for tips on meditation techniques, so I’m going to take a shot at...
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THE THREE MUSKETEERS: Kindness, tolerance and acceptance

Robert Kopecky·July 6, 2013
Kindness, tolerance and acceptance are kind of like the Three Musketeers of spiritual protection. Don’t ask me which one’s Porthos,...
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FLOCK OF BIRDS: Quantum coherence and the movement towards perfection

Robert Kopecky·June 19, 2013
Have you ever looked up in the sky and seen a flock of birds tightly undulating as though they were...
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ALL YOU NEED IS: Love, a hug and the Eightfold Path

Robert Kopecky·December 29, 2012
“My religion is Kindness”—The Dalai Lama “My religion is Love.”—Amma Everyone’s heard of The Dalai Lama, but have you ever...
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LOVE REVOLUTION: Occupy the body; Occupy the World

Robert Kopecky·December 4, 2012
“Oh, [you don’t know] the shape I’m in…”—Levon Helm This form our spirits inhabit, this ever-changing body/mind we occupy on Earth from...
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COMPASSIONATE CONSCIOUSNESS: Charles Eisenstein’s approach to realizing our spiritual nature through our physical experience

Robert Kopecky·November 27, 2012
In watching Charles Eisenstein’s kind-hearted and thought–provoking TED New Haven talk (I’m a fan), I was again struck by that...
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LOVE IN-FORM-ATION: The power of Love in Being

Robert Kopecky·May 15, 2012
Here's a theory about our real power to change things, and how it relates to seeing Love in everything. We can semi-consciously bring the real things in our life into being through intention, and...
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FIND YOUR “RIGHT” BRAIN: Engaging the right brain in meditation

Robert Kopecky·May 14, 2012
It's easy to see how someone might think that sitting in meditation would be a terribly boring thing to do. Just sitting there doing nothing. Trying to think of nothing. Trying to think of not thinking. Of...
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