Category: Philosophy as a Way of Life
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No Room for Improvements
You would find your own life and the lifeworld itself flourishes with more gracefulness if you just let-go the need to improve yourself. Wait, wait: Don’t misunderstand me. Not recommending that you stop doing Yoga or meditating or learning skills or gaining knowledge. Did you know that the word improvement…
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Richard Mills Owsley
Today marks the 10th anniversary of my dear mentor & friend’s passing. I miss him a great deal at times. But usually I know he is still on-going as that thinking which was his life’s vocation and which he passed along to so very many over the course of five…
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Along the Great Way
“If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.” – Laozi “It is better to travel well than to arrive.” – Buddha “Oh beloved Phaedrus, where are you going & from whence do you come?” – Socrates Source: Uploaded by user via Keith Wayne on…
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Thinking without Professional Recognition
I work in and around higher education in the United States, but I am not a professor. I sometimes say that I am in the academy but not necessarily of the academy. This does not imply, however, that I refuse to do more than my fair share of thinking about…
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Many Rivers, One Foot, No Certainty
“One can, therefore, step twice, and even innumerable times, into the same river, if the river is located by its slope, its banks, its direction, its flow, as it is by any discriminating mind-body; but one never steps twice into the same river, quite simply because there is no river,…
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Intersecting Wisdom
“Are you the new person drawn toward me? To begin with, take warning – I am surely far different from what you suppose; Do you suppose you will find in me your ideal? Do you think it so easy to have me become your lover? Do you think the friendship…
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The Leisure to be Your Own Self
“You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.” ― Eckhart Tolle Aware. Awakened. Enlightened. Mindful. Many ways of describing a person who is tuned-in with the Encompassing. Each is a flashing profile, catching a brilliant glimpse of what…
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wandering, wondering: (a)maze
Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue. ~Siddhartha Gautama, the Awakened One Source: pixiewinksfairywhispers.tumblr.com…
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Mindfulness = Emptiness
Mindful thinking properly becomes emptiness or no-thing. This begins by the inward turn. Being now/here, there is no then/there to which you can race that will possess all the things you “need” to possess.
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