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  • Already Falling in Love

    The deluded among us who confound power with political position and happiness with wealth propagate a great confidence game, a colossal con, a great grift. They believe and would have all else believe that the great succession of their material goals is real “success.” They would have you take confidence…

  • Translation of a beautiful poem with comments by my new brother in Christ Jason. Enjoy!

  • History of Philosophy 115 – Me, Myself and I: Augustine on Mind and Memory (Podcast)

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions Augustine explores the nature of the human mind in order to establish its similarity to, and dissimilarity from, the divine Trinity.   Source : historyofphilosophy.net See on www.historyofphilosophy.net

  • Freedom of the Age

    “Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself in all cases as the age and generations which preceded it.” Thomas Paine  Source: piccsy.com via Keith Wayne on Pinterest Related articles The Leisure to be Your Own Self (keithwaynebrown.com) Letting-go Hateful Circumstance by the Naming of the…

  • Daodejing 22

    #22* Sacrifice the part & save the whole. Bend that to make this straight. Hollow that to make this full. That withers, this blooms. Lose that, gain this. Determined then, confused now. Thus the sages insist on the one as archetype of everything. Don’t show off, and you will be…

  • Daodejing 21

    #21 Great excellence relies only on the Great Way (DAO) How does Great Way make the way? Indefinetely & vaguely. Though indefinite & vague, there are images. Though indefinite & vague, things do happen. Too small to see & too deep to fathom, Yet there are concentrations of life-force. These…

  • Originally posted on sittinginthewoods: The birds may sing their presence, the squirrels may chatter, and my breath may blow steadily across this landscape, but all of these songs and motions bespeak a profound silence, a deep collecting of all time where the songs, the words, and the breath hold still,…

  • 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,…

  • 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…

  • Stylist Turns Ancient Hairdo Debate on Its Head

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions A hairdresser at a Baltimore salon has stuck a pin in the long-held assumptions among historians about the hairstyles of ancient Rome and Greece. See on online.wsj.com

  • Originally posted on WYRD ATTRACTIONS: “Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to “die before you die” — and find that there is no death.”  ― Eckhart Tolle Source: alongtimealone.tumblr.com via Claudia on Pinterest Related articles 11 Ways to Have Fun with…

  • The Leisure to be Your Own Self

    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…

  • How to Save College | The Awl

    I focus a lot on what youth are facing as well as what their parents & grandparents have done & are doing concerning the technofuture which is mostly hear today already. Because I am involved in higher education, I tend to concentrate on the academic side of things.In the opinion…

  • “The Straight Agenda”: an e-toon from thebigslice.org

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  • nesh nesh nesh

    …As has always been said, clarity comes with the giving up of self. But what this means is that we cease to attribute selfhood to these echoes and mirror images. Otherwise we stand in a hall of mirrors, dancing hesitantly and irresolutely because we are making the images take the…