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  • ARE YOU A POST MATERIALIST? | ellisnelson

    Top notch overview of this concept over at ellisnelson.com. Kudos! …Ronald Inglehart developed the idea of post materialism in the 1970s as a sociological theory to explain an ongoing transformation of individual values within a society. He argued that as western… Continue reading

    ARE YOU A POST MATERIALIST? | ellisnelson

  • Textimony 20130103

    Always the whispers of sages slip into oblivion. Loving struggle, ever adventuring to say the as yet unsaid, finds refreshment by raising up the forgotten. Continue reading

    Textimony 20130103

  • On 3 moments of freedom « Andrew Taggart

    Let’s examine a few different conceptions of freedom in hopes of arriving, in the end, at where we began. In his famous essay, “Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person,” the contemporary philosopher Harry Frankfurt states, “According to… Continue reading

  • Textimony 20121212

      Silly little monkey. Just hanging around. Too earthly to embrace your gifts from the Encompassing Good; too heavenly to forget them. Let-go your hesitation. Continue reading

  • Textimony 20121111

      Would you make grief? Then hold tight to what is born & must perish. Would you find joy? Then let the unborn & imperishable hold you. Love & do what you will! Continue reading

  • Textimony 20121104

    In decisive existence, reason embraces emotion & passion, undoing fear’s grip so that desire may touch our great possibility in this Beautiful Order: Freedom. Continue reading

  • Textimony 20121018

    A distinction betwixt youthful choice & decisive mastery: a youth gives answers & gets time; a master forgets answers & forgives time. Graceful oblivion. Continue reading

  • Detaching-Letting Go-Releasing Yourself

    A nice blog entry from over at Miati Notes on Toxic Relationships that certainly goes to the heart of what I have been feeling over the last few days. As listening to Frank Herbert’s Dune this morning reminded me of… Continue reading

  • be happy, do nothing… « lederr

    From Lederr‘s blog… Canadian social psychologist Jamie Gruman is proposing a new way of achieving nirvana: Do nothing. Instead, live in the moment and embrace the “serene and contented acceptance of life as it is, with no ambitions of acquisition,… Continue reading

  • Becoming Empassioned

    Good piece. Opening ourselves up to the possibility of this Beautiful Order, we become conduits, energized by the dynamic force of the Encompassing Good. Letting-go of worry or fretfulness or obsession, we need not follow bliss as the blissful will… Continue reading

  • Textimony 20120923

    Attend. Adjust. Acknowledge: Unhindered by regret, this WAY lets-go the insolence reposing within success & embraces the humility residing within failure Continue reading

  • Catching the morning sun. | garyschollmeier

    Catching the morning sun. | garyschollmeier.   Continue reading

  • Textimony 20120824

    If you are preparing to expend a great deal of energy opening something up, make sure there even is a lid on it in the first place. Continue reading

  • Textimony 20120816

    “Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere.” Frank Herbert, DUNE Continue reading

  • Textimony 20120811

    If seeking ethics, embrace fortitude; faith, compassion; wisdom, openness; divinity, mercy. But in seeking wholeness, embrace nothing. Let-go. Continue reading