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Oct.01.2012
It's irritating, innit?
So many decisions in American society are being pushed forward by expediency. Values and principles are being shunted aside.
The usual reasons for dismissing values and principles?
1. Security. We must be safe. We must be secure. We were attacked, you know. If we...
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Sep.30.2012
Hello there my spiritual friend,
I come to you with an open ended remark, for there appears to be an over whelming need for understanding regarding the simple resolution to it all.
Quite often, there is an ache within us to either seek absolution, have resolve and unfortunately,...
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Sep.18.2012
5:45 AM Tuesday
Darkness. Daylight is becoming more elusive. Summer's official end looms on the calendar.
Email has been read and answered.
The first meeting begins in fifteen minutes. It will be meetings for three hours, then two hours of work, followed by two hours of meetings....
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Sep.16.2012
All the news headlines in the country, in the past few days, have mentioned what I understand to be the recent publication, by a French magazine – and now, apparently, also an Irish newspaper – of the Duchess of Cambridge seemingly sunbathing topless in a French château. It now appears...
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Sep.09.2012
Want Enlightenment? Salvation? Freedom?
It's infinitely simpler than you could ever imagine. And, it will take a lifetime to unpack.
Here's how - Practice Stillness.
As Nepo expresses it, and only as Nepo could, "Make a deal with yourself: trade five facts about how to live for one hour of...
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Sep.08.2012
Reality - in its illusionary two-ness (duality) - gives "each" "other" credit for "this" or "that," while all along being utterly self-caused.
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Sep.07.2012
Books are a forest and it’s hard to see the trees, except the tall ones or the old ones. But when you enter the forest, it’s the new growth that emits the sunlight....
Friday, September 7, 2012
At first I dismissed Representative Todd Akin‘s weak statement about rape and conception as more...
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Aug.28.2012
I have finished Murder in the High Himalaya: Loyalty, Tragedy and Escape from Tibet by Jonathan Green, but I don’t know where to start.Maybe I should start with current headlines? Two Tibetan teens self-immolate in protest of Chinese control (http://goo.gl/7mRPd). That makes fifty-one...
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Aug.12.2012
A quotation from James Baldwin has been making the rounds of some friends on Facebook this week. I like to observe this phenomenon, how a snippet of text gets unmoored from its intended context and eddies through cyberspace, washing up on shores of meaning its author surely never intended....
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Jul.31.2012
driven by deadlines in school and work and even theater. But now I was driving, and no one, including me, knew where I was going, or when I would get there. A typical day on my journey consisted of:
Waking when I wanted.
Eating when I wanted.
Driving where I wanted.
Seeing what I wanted.
Stopping...
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