Why Not Aim for Greatness?

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We don’t aim for greatness and making a difference because we are too busy acting out our conditioning. Why not aim for more?

A Real Woman Owns Her Anger (And Her Vulnerability) A Workshop: For Women in NYC (3/17)

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The set-up of the workshop allows you to have a profound and potentially life transforming experience.

Good Men Keep Their Back Straight (And Their Heart Open): A Workshop For Men in NYC (3/16)

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A unique full day experience facilitated by The Good Men Project’s long-time writer Atalwin Pilon that will address issues raised in his controversial posts on so-called Psycho Bitches From Hell.

How to Achieve Your Potential As a Man

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Atalwin Pilon had an awakening that changed him. And he’d like to share.

2 NYC Workshops by Atalwin Pilon of Basic Goodness and The Good Men Project: March 16 & 17

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The Good Men Project & Basic Goodness Present: Good Men Keep Their Back Straight (And Their Heart Open) A Workshop For Men (and a Workshop for Women, also)

31 Reasons Why Men Don’t Cheat

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“Here’s a shocker. I love my wife enormously. I worry about her daily. My love for her as a whole human being is greater than my sexual needs.”

Cutting Through Bullshit

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Atalwin Pilon on keeping your word, and the times when words fail.

The Fear of Numbness

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Atalwin Pilon on being a tourist and being oneself.

After the Storm

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We become liars and cowards because we deeply fear the consequences of being honest and vulnerable.

Knocked Out

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A skeptic becomes a believer when a meditation exercise knocks him out.

The Shadow of Beauty

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Atalwin Polin talks about a reader’s kind contribution to his journey and the movement again Islamist free speech in Turkey.

My Suffering Is Better Than Your Suffering

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How is it, Atalwin Pilon wonders, that in a world where some people starve to death and are blown apart by landmines, other people are pushed to their limits by the sound of one song bird?

You Should Really Open Up

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“What I am finding over and over again is that honesty heals.”

Bearing Witness in Beirut

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I am starting to realize that the countries I choose to visit make it impossible not to think about conflict. Reading that sentence makes my laugh. How ignorant can a human being be? I went from Athens to Tel Aviv and from Amman to Beirut and after Beirut I will go to Baghdad via Cairo. I [...]

Visiting Enemies: On Walking the Streets of Beirut

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“I noticed something beautiful. People don’t smile here.”

The Battle Between My Heart and Ego

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“Sometimes we see something that is very pure, very fragile, and we realize it’s perfect—even if it isn’t.”