Keith “Maggie” Brown
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Embracing the broad cosmos
We never know with any certainty where we are going. Only conviction carries us forward. And such conviction, if it would do better than we did yesterday, must arise from a courageous assessment of who we are by looking at… Continue reading
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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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