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Category: Philosophy as a Way of Life

• AnarchoCynicism Control Method or META HODOS Philosophy as a Way of Life

  6 Harsh Truths That Will Make You a Better Person | Cracked.com

  LET’S DO THIS. “Do what?” you ask. I DON’T KNOW. LET’S FIGURE THAT OUT TOGETHER, MOTHERFUCKERS. Feel free to stop reading this if your career is going great, you’re thrilled with your life and you’re happy with your relationships. Enjoy the rest of your day, friend, this article is not…

  January 22, 2013
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  Reading Plato on Death Row – New APPS: Art, Politics, Philosophy, Science

  A really powerful & timely philosophical practice. Every Wednesday, I go to Riverbend Maximum Security Prison in Nashville to facilitate a discussion group with prisoners on death row and philosophy graduate students. It’s a nice prison, as far as prisons go: clean, suburban-feeling, with a soapy smell that lingers on…

  January 21, 2013
• AnarchoCynicism Method or META HODOS Perennial Philosophy Philosophy as a Way of Life

  Part or Particle of God

  Standing on the bare ground, — my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, — all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.…

  January 21, 2013
• AnarchoCynicism Art/Skill/Techne Method or META HODOS Perennial Philosophy Philosophy as a Way of Life

  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 you the dynamics of faith and to those much older…

  January 21, 2013
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  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, there is no reason to the rhyme, and that realization…

  January 21, 2013
• Perennial Philosophy Philosophy as a Way of Life

  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: pbcstyle.blogspot.com via Keith Wayne on Pinterest

  January 21, 2013
• Art/Skill/Techne Method or META HODOS Perennial Philosophy Philosophy as a Way of Life

  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 important phrase for me is “This Beautiful Order.” The term…

  January 21, 2013
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  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 for us to follow. Source: google.com via Katharina on Pinterest Thanks to the Commonzense of St.…

  January 20, 2013
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  Healing Injury

  “It is not violence that best overcomes hate — nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury.” ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre Source: socialphy.com via Keith Wayne on Pinterest

  January 20, 2013
• Method or META HODOS Perennial Philosophy Philosophy as a Way of Life

  Textimony 20130116

  Already some profit by your labor, usefulness, & skill. Yet all find reward from your self-mastery. Strive always to elevate this craft: Resolute Mindfulness. Source: fineartamerica.com via Keith Wayne on Pinterest

  January 20, 2013
• Art/Skill/Techne Method or META HODOS Perennial Philosophy Philosophy as a Way of Life

  Creating Oneself Endlessly

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

  January 20, 2013
• AnarchoCynicism Perennial Philosophy Philosophy as a Way of Life

  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

  January 17, 2013
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  Loving Creator

  “He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.” St. Francis of Assissi Related articles You are being released. What do you do…

  January 15, 2013
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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

  January 14, 2013
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  Blessed are the Peacemakers…

  January 14, 2013
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  The NRA & the Black Panthers “in dialog”: The Secret History of Guns

  Whether we are Christians or Muslims or nationalists or agnostics or atheists, we must first learn to forget our differences. If we have differences, let us differ in the closet; when we come out in front, let us not have anything to argue about until we get finished arguing with…

  January 12, 2013
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  Mindfulness or Fearfulness

  “Extreme fear can neither fight nor fly.” -William Shakespeare There is a great deal of viciousness & dis-ease in the United States of America: poverty; mental disorders; drug addiction; bigotry; compulsive obsessive consumption of sex, violence, food, celebrity, television, etc etc etc. But above all, there is a pervasive FEARFULNESS…

  January 10, 2013
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  More than One Direction in which Millennials Can Thrive

  Yestereve, I contemplated so much how today’s youth can survive the world wrought by their parents and grandparents, that I dreamed about it. I especially want to thank my friend Matthew for asking for further clarification. Below you will see a slight variation of my response to him on my…

  January 10, 2013