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Perennial Philosophy

  • The Socratic Sign

    There comes a time when you notice that a good swathe of your contemporaries are only worth engaging in order to sharpen your rhetorical weapons. To improve your mindful practice, you must turn to those much younger who recover within… Continue reading

  • How Brewing Coffee Can Up Cognitive Dexterity « SolsticeSon’s Celebrational Servings

    A really nice meditation on the need to change the routine using an everyday example to drive home the notion. Kudos! Start seeing your actions from an outside perspective and questioning why you do what you do. In many cases,… Continue reading

  • Turn a life around

    “Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.” — Leo Buscaglia Source:… Continue reading

  • Recalling This Beautiful Order

    In attempting to philosophize as a way of life, I have often “translated” many terms/concepts into a single notion that would comprehend the nuances of diverse sages across time & cultures. Whether I succeed is another story entirely. A particularly… Continue reading

  • A Wide World of Compassion

    I contemplate a great deal how the Great Sages & Ancestors all say so many of the same things. Comparative philosophy leads to an open embrace of all peoples. Compassion is a wide road, even if not the easiest one… Continue reading

  • Textimony 20120105

    Everywhere we consume & partake, seeking satisfaction. Yet only in abandoning this quest to be full do we ever achieve true abundance. Source: thevelardes.blogspot.com via Keith Wayne on Pinterest Continue reading

  • Creating Oneself Endlessly

    “To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.” ― Henri Bergson Continue reading

  • Frozen flow

    Source: garyschollmeier.com via Keith Wayne on Pinterest As always, something eye catching from This Beautiful Order, this Embracing Lifeworld, at Master Schollmeier’s blog. Continue reading

  • Jumping to Judgment, Shipwrecked by Laughter

     “Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.” -Albert Einstein Source: flickr.com via Keith Wayne on Pinterest Continue reading

  • Letting-go of Anger

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  • A Slow, Graceful Pace

    “Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson Source: flickr.com via Keith Wayne on Pinterest Continue reading