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Sep.07.2012
"[T]he important point is that in the Nondual traditions, you take a vow, a very sacred vow, which is the foundation of all of your training, and the vow is that you will not disappear into cessation - you will not hide out in nirvana, you will not evaporate in nirodh, you will not abandon the...
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Aug.26.2012
" As we grow older our worldview narrows. We live with realities, and ignore possibilities."
I've learned that transition time brings self-examination. At the first realization that my world had narrowed through the years, I was depressed. My life was bogged down in reality. Jobs,...
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Aug.23.2012
I sure relate to this Fitzgerald quote - - how about you?
image via hofstra.edu
“Writers aren't people exactly. Or, if they're any good, they're a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
See Bob's (revised) Web Site here:
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Aug.21.2012
Is “What did you surf last night?” akin to a metaphysical query? Is your use of the internet no different from how you introspect and the answers you get from it?
Scientific research has once again stretched it, although now it concerns what we do every day. I am not dismissing the...
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Jul.29.2012
You are my spiritual brother, I said. You are my spiritual sister, he said. It was years since we had spiritually reconnected. Years since our respective spirits probably found and lost siblings, mates, anchors, seas, storms.
We planned to meet again. Spirits.
I did not keep the promise...
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Jul.26.2012
Torn Realities, A Horror Anthology
I remember Buckminster Fuller writing that 95% of scientifically proven reality is beyond the realm of our human sensory tools. Even though we know this, our emotional - and large doses of our rational - makeup is hopelessly tied to our senses. Then,...
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Jul.12.2012
Can religion make couples drift apart? It would seem so, and the Katie Holmes-Tom Cruise divorce has put this in the public arena, although other factors might well have played a role.
"There's a gorilla in the room, and it's Scientology," said a famous attorney. It is about control, apparently....
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Jul.06.2012
Can you remember the early Saturday morning TV shows? Did you listen to the news from far off places on an old valve radio? The guest on today’s “A Book and a Chat” did both of those one he has written about and the other lead him down the path that would produce numerous awards including the...
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Jun.19.2012
Wish I'd gotten up earlier this morning. Still, if I had, my dream would not have been so complete.
My hours asleep involved a multiple cast of characters who gather on a Greek Isle to virtually save the World. Some of the characters are a mother and daughter, a group...
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Jun.13.2012
June 13
OPEN WINDOWS
I roll down the window in the rain hoping reality will soak in with the droplets. I tilt up my face as I leave the car and let the water shower my features. The downpour is the jolt to living for which I have prayed. I stand...
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