Keith “Maggie” Brown
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The Journey to Mindfulness
To give everything back in open communication–the fullness of love–is the vocation of everyday life… Realize this… Around our ownmost personhood there is a circle of earnestness that we might call our mindfulness. It has two principal faculties, the will-to-order… Continue reading
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Getting Started with Phenomenology
Someone on Quora asked, “What primary and secondary sources should I read if I want to better understand phenomenology and the phenomenological method?” I always steer folks wanting to learn about phenomenology in the direction of getting a good foundation in… Continue reading
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Out-of-Order with God
The ordinary, everyday stuff where the Enduring flows as our duration… Things that one does: getting up, brushing your teeth, making breakfast, or even more particularly yawning – blinking – scratching… What we do in every moment of the ordinary… Continue reading
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School of the Americas Morphs Into US Training Industrial Complex
Activists still demand closure of the School of Americas 25 years after a Jesuit priest massacre. Source: www.truth-out.org interlocking networks of violent control Continue reading
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Speaking in Tongues
humming refrigerator pleasure – neutral – pain ? neutral tapping keyboard pleasure – neutral – pain ? neutral cursor flashing on screen pleasure – neutral – pain ? neutral breathe breathe breathe where mind wanders at night along the pathways… Continue reading
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Who ‘Deserves’ Anything?
A homily from Fr. Richard Rohr, OFM, on the Gospel of St. Matthew 20:1-16. The suffering that arises from the sense of entitlement. Yet verily, verily… the last shall be first and the first shall be last. https://cac.org/images/MP3s/RRHomily-2014_09_21-Deserves-128k.mp3 Continue reading
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the burden of “white ignorance”
“…modernity is cognitively marked by a broad pattern in which whites generally endorse racist views (one type of ignorance) in the period of formal global white domination, and then (roughly from the post-World War II, decolonial period onward) shift… Continue reading
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A British Tory Is An American Democrat
Here’s an indication of just how far to the right the American political discourse is, compared with Britain – the developed country most in tune with American neo-liberalism: That’s why David Came… Source: dish.andrewsullivan.com And folks wonder why the right… Continue reading
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I’m Gen Y, and I’m Not a Special Snowflake. I’m Broke. | Mother Jones
If I want something beyond debt and low wages, am I simply being entitled and delusional? Source: m.motherjones.com Continue reading
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Psyche Atman Anima Soul
“The soul is the human being considered as having a value in itself.” Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace (1972). “All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am I supposed… Continue reading
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Mull of Kintyre
One of my favorite songs from when I was in High School. I actually sang it to my poetry class once. Sometimes I was foolishly brave for a fairly insecure kid. 😉 Continue reading
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The life and works of Alan Watts
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Contemplation 209
Eye turning upward I falls away: Encompassing. Decisive release Continue reading
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‘Star Wars: Episode VII’ is called ‘The Force Awakens’
Star Wars Episode: VII finally has a subtitle: The Force Awakens. Disney quietly announced the title on Twitter this morning — a somewhat strange approach to what is easily the most anticipated… Source: www.theverge.com I feel it. Continue reading
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Love – To Not Be – Asleep
Faith: trusting Hope: expecting Love: creating Here comes the sun To be: having To become: flowing To not be: emptying Raindrops keep falling on my head Awake: questioning Dreaming: transforming Asleep: detaching The baffled… Continue reading
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