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  • Suggestions – Rules – Advice –

    10 Rules for Students, Teachers, and Life by John Cage with Hints & Amendments by Sister Corita Kent “Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail, there’s only make.” RULE ONE: Find a place you trust, and then… Continue reading

    Suggestions – Rules – Advice –

  • Whatever, Etc. 00025: Alteration

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    Whatever, Etc. 00025: Alteration

  • A Frank Prayer

    Oh thou endless Great Way, broad and flowing in profound tranquility, Where hatred happens, let there now be love; Where weakness occurs, fortitude; Where doubt arises, faithfulness; Where despair crushes, hopefulness; Where darkness encroaches, enlightenment; Where sadness lingers, joyfulness. Encompassing… Continue reading

    A Frank Prayer

  • Advice while Awake

    When the occasion requires, speak mindfully. Be timely, not untimely. Be decisive, not confused. Be gentle, not harsh. Be generous, not miserly. Be compassionate, not cruel. Oh beloved friend, mindful of internal & external feelings, comprehend how few occasions ever… Continue reading

    Advice while Awake

  • Don’t Look Down!

    The next time you go rock climbing or scrambling up a peak, someone may give you some clichéd but good advice: “Don’t look down.” This is not just a recommendation that works with struggling up a physical height. Often, you… Continue reading

  • Letting-go Hateful Circumstance by the Naming of the World

    The oppressed, the put-upon, the dejected–all sink into an existence where the oppressor counts on never being challenged because the ones who are afflicted would do anything to be something other than the down-trodden. Those who grow in such power… Continue reading

    Letting-go Hateful Circumstance by the Naming of the World

  • What is Interdisciplinary Communication?

    How can we make sense of different perspectives on the same subject? How does what I learn about, say, environmental problems in my science class relate to what I learn about them in my philosophy class? Can professors from different… Continue reading

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Green House | vitfoto

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  • 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

  • The Recipe for Success (Not What You Think It Is) « healthdemystified

    For the longest time, I thought success was the result of a combo of luck and genes. Success, I thought, was reserved for a select few special people out there – something out of grasp for us mere mortals. I… Continue reading

  • Textimony 20120720

    At the limit we engage beginning & ending. At the boundary we embrace true concern & eschew false security. Now/here on the edge: nowhere. Continue reading

  • Whatever, Etc., 0016: Boundary Opportunities

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  • Stars, Planets And The Meaningless Life : 13.7: Cosmos And Culture : NPR

    The talks on Kepler were delightful and I drank in all the new science like a thirsty kid on a hot summer day. But none of what I learned pushed me out of my comfort zone and on to the… Continue reading