tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57734162011-08-02T15:34:53.586-07:00A CompendiumMarknoreply@blogger.comBlogger721100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5773416.post-1106245516513707242010-05-24T06:00:00.000-07:002010-07-10T09:12:04.536-07:00

aCan you think of anything that stays the same, does not change? The core nature of the universe is change. Everything changes. Everything. No moment is the same as another. Cellular changes occur constantly. Nothing remains literally constant. In many ways stability is a delusion, a way for us humans to exert and maintain control over ourselves, others, our environment and, we think, the cosmos.

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What are the characteristics of "risk-takers", "on the edge" individuals who climb the highest mountains, sail around the world alone at age 16, take an idea from the garage to the global market...? They are not overly preoccupied with making mistakes or with social disapproval; they are able to tolerate the anxiety of separateness, They have a strong enough ego to admit when they are wrong or

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afor a group of four or more...one person serving as guide, pausing appropriately along the way in order to give ample opportunity to mindful consideration - Get comfortable in your chair, with both feet firmly on the ground, and close your eyes,, resting your hands in your lap palms up. Notice your breathing. No need to change it, just notice the pattern of the breath coming in and going

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atree: a storyThe Tree is an ancient symbol in many cultures. The Tree of Knowledge, the Family Tree, and the Tree Of Life are three powerful examples."Every atom belonging to you belongs to me.”- Walt WhitmanPicture if you will, a Tree. An old Tree that stands in the middle of a small town. It has always been there, further back than the oldest citizen can recall. An engraved plaque rests in the

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.Vision is not enough, it must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs. - Vaclav Havel

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aFlowers for MichaelI want to buy seeds at True Value Hardware;petunias, like I saw growing in planter boxesacross from Valencia Gardens on Guerrero, thedogwood bloom snowing pink on dirty cement.I used to play in my Father's garden amongspyorria and sweet alysum, yellow tongue irisand jungle red dahlia, fat blushing peonies,double white lilacs, a rose covered arbor.I studied each blossom, leaf,

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aEvery individual has a unique story of value worth telling and hearing. The characters, plots, themes, and action of the story are created by the individual. Throughout life we have adopted stories told to us by others, by the culture, and by past experiences. Sometimes those stories do not match the life stories we hope to develop for ourselves. We get caught up in the problem and forget all

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aSurrender involves the letting down of individual barriers to merge into the otherness of experience. True surrender comes by knowledge. Untrue surrender comes by fear. I think that surrender begins by accepting our negative side.Surrender can only begin by accepting that the dark nature is ours.The dark nature lives in the secrets we create and keep.Surrender is an unpopular word, disliked

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.Accept your feelings, know your purpose, do what needs to be done..“The key is not to resist or rebel against the symptoms or to try to get around them by devising all sorts of tricks, that is, to accept them directly as they are without shunning them.” - Takahisa Kora, MDAccept your feelingsAccepting feelings is not ignoring them or avoiding them, but welcoming them; Vietnamese poet and writer,

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.Look in the mirror and admire an original masterpiece. A one-off, never to be repeated work of art. You are unique and that is partly due to your combination of genes. Unless you are an identical twin it’s a combination that has never been seen before. Genes can tell fascinating stories. And the story of your life is probably the most important of all. We'd all like to understand ourselves

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.It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.Oliver Wendell Homes, Sr..Listening isn’t another thing to do, another task or activity that you have to add to your list of chores or self-growth to do list. It’s actually a way of being, something that comes naturally. What has happened in modern times is that we have been coaxed out of this natural way of

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.The Noble Eightfold Path describes the way to the end of suffering, as it was laid out by Siddhartha Gautama. It is a practical guideline to ethical and mental development with the goal of freeing the individual from attachments and delusions; and it finally leads to understanding the truth about all things. Together with the Four Noble truths it constitutes the gist of Buddhism. Great emphasis

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.guidance and suggestions around the practice of acceptance[There are may "ways" and throughout ALETHEUS I will refer to several from different traditions. Eventually one or another will resonate for you - will touch your heart in a manner that no other practice or method has.]The Buddha taught us that hatred can never be overcome through hatred, but only through love. Perhaps one of the most

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.We humans can become attached to anything – material objects, people, ideas, thoughts, or actions. Americans living in a highly commercialzed society rife with “reference anxiety” (keeping up with the joneses) are especially prone to attachment. We are told from our very earliest years what we “need” in order to be liked, respected, to get ahead, to succeed, to please others and so forth. These

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poem by Jack Gilbert, MonolithosThe Poles rode out from Warsaw against the GermanTanks on horses. Rode knowing, in sunlight, with sabers,A magnitude of beauty that allows me no peace.And yet this poem would lessen that day. QuestionThe bravery. Say it's not courage. Call it a passion.Would say courage isn't that. Not at its best.It was impossib1e, and with form. They rode in sunlight,Were

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a.The progressive surrender of our ignorant personal will and its merger into a greater divine or on the highest summits greatest supreme Will is the whole secret of Karma Yoga. To bring about the conditions in which alone this vast and happy identity becomes possible and to work out the lines we must follow to their end if we are to reach it, is all the deeper purpose of this discipline.The

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Athena Scorning the Advances of Hephaestus ca. 1555-1560 Paris Bordone (Italian-Venetian, 1500-1571)Oil on canvas (61.78) Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri-Columbia..I Must Go to Hephaestus (a Sestina)I try to find comfort for myselfnot only with words in privatebut, by howling from the ashes:a raven from dust.Not with words in private,but to go boldly as I tell my taleof a

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aFor three months, I questioned my every thought and every action – everything. How I brushed my teeth, answered the phone, opened a door, spoke to a salesperson. One day I was dicing onions and asked myself, “why am I cutting these this way? There are other ways. Why do I do it this particular way?” The answer surprised me, and it didn’t. It was an answer that led my to this experiment. “My

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.Expectations are destructive. It isn’t so much the experience itself that causes us pain, but rather the expectations we have about the experience. Have you ever anticipated a first date and then been disappointed because it didn’t meet up to your expectations? If you had gone into the situation with an open mind, you might have actually enjoyed yourself. But instead, we tend to cause ourselves

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by George OppenVeritas sequitur...In the small beauty of the forestThe wild deer bedding down --That they are there!Their eyesEffortless, the soft lipsNuzzle and the alien small teethTear at the grassThe roots of itDangle from their mouthsScattering earth in the strange woods.They who are there.Their pathsNibbled thru the fields, the leaves that shade themHang in the distancesOf sunThe small

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aA kundalini yantra from Gujarat, early 1900's, used to help focus the "serpent energy" within the bodyInside every human being there is a network of nerves and sensory organs that interprets the outside physical world. At the same time, within us resides a subtle system of channels (nadis) and centers of energy (chakras) which look after our physical, intellectual, emotional and spiritual being.

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YULE December 21 - Winter Solstice, December 20-23; varies according to the particular date on the standard calendar according to when the Solstice will occur astronomically.In the story of the Goddess and the God that is reflected in the solar year, we celebrate the birth of the God as Oak King to the Mother aspect of the Goddess on Winter Solstice (or Yule, approximately December 21st). Because

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aThe Sun woke me this morning loudand clear, saying "Hey! I've beentrying to wake you up for fifteenminutes. Don't be so rude, you areonly the second poet I've ever chosento speak to personally so whyaren't you more attentive? If I couldburn you through the window I wouldto wake you up. I can't hang aroundhere all day." "Sorry, Sun, I stayedup late

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aOne only needs to take a quick glance around to notice that there are very few true gentlemen remaining among us. In times past, a gentleman was much appreciated and being gentlemanly was a noble thing.Alas, things have changed in today's society; some for the better and some for the worse. One thing that particularly irks me is the lack of good taste and etiquette most guys are guilty of at the

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.Buzz and Israelby Charlie Vazquez (Fireking Press 2005).More than anything, Charlie Vazquez's first novel is about a search for a fully realized and worthy Self. Such a quest is typical and de rigueur for all the young, but even more so for disenfranchised gay youth. Vazquez places his title characters, Buzz & Israel, in the context of the marginalized "punk" and underground criminal world

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.a review by Sarah OvenallThe Light and Shadow Tarot is a marvelous example of an all-too-rare occurance: a deck that works on both the artistic and esoteric levels. The deck was created as a series of linoleum block prints by the late German artist Michael Goepford, and originally published in a limited edition as the Contrast Tarot. Goepford's art has been re released as a deck and book set (

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aFirst the question: The client, Paul, asks, “I need to take better care of myself, stop smoking, get fit. How can I go about this so I will be successful?”The cards drawn: 5 wands, King pentacles, Empress, Prince wands, Hanged Man, 3 cups, 2 cups, Fool, 3 pentacles, Ace wands. First impression: Lots of fire (wands), no swords, creativity, love, perspective, letting go, starting at the beginning

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aDestiny Books, division of Inner Traditions in Rochester Vermont, released their newest (1996) Tarot deck and book set this month. The Light & Shadow Tarot is a collaborative effort from the late artist, Michael Goepferd; author, Brian Williams; and poet, Mark Hannan.Michael Goepferd spent much of 1992-94 creating, carving, and printing the 78 linoleum cut block prints that make up this unique,

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aThe Tarot is not an oracle despite what many have attributed to it. It is a deck of cards made of paper and ink. It does not have special powers. The special power comes from the interaction between the person and their thinking as generated in their mind by the images. It is a projective tool. The power is also in the communication between the guide and the reader as they co-research the story

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aEven as scientists all over the world are making concerted efforts to understand the human mind and the human consciousness, a plethora of provocative questions still remain unanswered. As someone said, if we could satisfactorily explain the workings of our minds, our brains would be so simple and underdeveloped that we wouldn't be able to understand anything! This is a definite limitation of

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.“If guilt is about behavior that has harmed others, shame is about not being good enough.”So often guilt and shame are confused, misunderstood, and therefore minimized, repressed, or swept aside completely. The best writing on the topic appeared in the Atlantic Monthly February 1992 in a lengthy article simply titled Shame, by Robert Karen. Much of this writing is a paraphrase of that article

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.The ordinary life is a round of various desires and greeds. As long as one is preoccupied with them, there can be no lasting progress. A way out of the round must be discovered. Take, as an instance, that commonest preoccupation of ordinary life - the constant thinking by people of what they will eat and when they will eat and whether they are eating enough. To conquer the greed for food an

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.Creativity is something that you can access everyday. We all have creative potential, however it is necessary to tap into that potential in order to benefit from it.Creativity occurs when you make it happen.Pick one creative thing that you love to do, and start doing it again this week. It does not matter why you stopped. It only matters that you begin again.You only have one life to live, so it

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[Adopted in Congress 4 July 1776]The Original Version of this Text wasRendered into HTML by Jon Rolandof the Constitution SocietyConverted to PDF by Danny Stoneas a Community Service to the Constitution SocietyDeclaration of IndependenceThe Unanimous Declaration of theThirteen United States of AmericaThen, in the course of human events, it becomesnecessary for one people to dissolve the

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The Dream Re-Entry Process – facilitated by Fred OlsenThe questions posed are the heart of the process.My comments, based on what I remember from the workshop I did with Dr. Olsen are in parentheses ( ).Duggan: How are you feeling today?Bravo: I am really bummed out this morning.Duggan: Why is that?Bravo: I had a nightmare last night that is really bothering me.Dreamtrack: THAT'S GREAT !!!

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.There is basically no difference between the waking state and that of dream, except that one seems more stable than the other. Only after there is awakening in the form of enlightenment is it realized that the waking world itself is indeed nothing but a long dream resulting from mental dis­position - a movement in Consciousness in which what seems a solid body and its sufferings are really an

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.What is the quest? Who guides it? Is there an inner presence that truly guides you from within the inner planes? These are important questions that you do not need to answer, because you already know and have experienced that such a presence really exists within you. This presence leads and unfolds the spiritual dimension of your process from within the inner planes of your being. Indeed, for

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.1. Visualize what life will be like when you accomplish your goal.Make the reality of your accomplishment so real in your mind that you will feel the exhilaration of the accomplishment, even though you haven't touched it physically.The reality of the accomplishment will cause your mind to begin working on the steps you need to take to reach your goal or dream even while you sleep.2. Write how

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.Self-Acceptance is not a way of thinking. It is a way of living that embodies awareness, compassion, and a willingness to enter into experience just as it is in each moment, whether that experience is painful or pleasurable. Ultimately it is the avoidance of pain and the attachment to pleasure that cause all suffering including addictions, mental and emotional distress, violence, and war. (The

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by Mike DeCapite Squatting like an animal on a concrete curb feeding on a quesadilla below the yellow windows on blue dusk of Grandma’s Southside in the San Francisco Mission, I feel the same wonder at her power to inform the night as I did as a kid lying awake in her bed across the street from the Greek carnival as it raced and roared like a remembered dream under the weight of the atmosphere

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.Your diet and exercise plans have taken a detour--and so has your self-esteem. One of the most sure fire ways to turn things around in your life is to focus on your physical being. You needn’t dive right into the mental and/or emotion side of the change process just yet if you are not ready. When your body is healthy and working right your mind will begin to be agile and alert, stronger to deal

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.an interviewYou're a person who has endured much pain in your life. Do you have a sense that at some point when you were young that you accepted the role of victimhood?Lori Rekowski: Absolutely. It was as if I had a contract to be born to be a victim and to carry that energy, not only for my own healing process, but to get the message out to others. I really feel that it was part of my (life)

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.Desiderata.Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrenderbe on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story.Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit. If you compare yourself with others, you

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.Frustration is the feeling that comes when you are being stopped from reaching your goals. It is feeling annoyed at being obstructed or criticised. An example expression arising from frustration will be "What is wrong with me? I should be able to do this."Frustration causes a downward spiral of performance, because it wastes precious energy and attention.There can be many others circumstances

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Visualise in front of you three persons: at the left a good friend, in the middle a stranger, to the right an enemy or someone you cannot stand.- Concentrate on the friend in front and examine your feelings towards him or her.- Now concentrate on the stranger and examine your feelings towards him or her.- Now concentrate on the enemy and examine your feelings towards him or her.- Return to the

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.One of the key elements of happiness is taking control of your thoughts. I call this "Right Thinking" Many people confuse having thoughts with thinking. Having thoughts is passive, letting something happen. While thinking is actively choosing which of our thoughts we will focus on or taking action on.Thinking is critical to our happiness because in a single day 50,000 thoughts pass through the

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.1. SPEND TIME PLANNING AND ORGANIZING. Using time to think and plan is time well-spent. In fact, if you fail to take time for planning, you are, in effect, planning to fail. Organize in a way that makes sense to you. If you need color and pictures, use a lot on your calendar or planning book. Some people need to have papers filed away; others get their creative energy from their piles. So forget

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.1. Spend some time getting to know yourself. This doesn't necessarily mean hours of reflection. You can also learn a lot more about who you are by getting out in the world and doing things. Meet people, take up hobbies, volunteer – you'll discover much about the world and reinforce your own sense of self at the same time. Get involved in your life!2. Act. When you're feeling insecure or doubting

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.Responding to a comment....Thanks for your note. It would appear that you are quite self-aware and have a good understanding of how fear and anxiety impact you and your life. We are all fearful and anxious from time to time – we need to be for survival. No fear is not a good thing.I used to wonder “why” about things like fear, sadness, anger, etc. but realized that knowing the “why” wasn’t

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.Some psychologists think that powerful self-insights and transformations of the psyche require psychotherapy and a psychotherapist. Of course, this isn't true. As a matter fact, the business of knowing and healing thyself has been around several thousand years before anyone joined together the words "psyche" and "therapy" - long before there was even the science of psychology or western science

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A Man without passion is a fire without light.A person without passion has no more value than a candle without a flame or fire without light. By passion I mean zeal, enthusiasm, or fervor. It is the force that relentlessly drives one forward. Passion is a burning desire that creates commitment to a person, project, or life. A world without passion is a world without Mother Teresa, Mozart, or

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.It is virtually impossible to have negative thoughts when you have a smile on your face! It lightens your heart and simply feels good.The practice of gratitude is life empowering. It can change the way you feel about yourself and life’s events. With the attitude of gratitude you can change the state of your consciousness. You move out of reactionary emotions and take charge of your personal

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(a grounding poem)The needto goon the N Judah trainto Ocean Beachto stand alonefacing out& to dig long toes insand and waterTake hold, feetroot hereand roll angles roundFlexdig inWith each toetouch past salt chilloceanbeyond downthrough layersof bodyinto bellydeep attention –Now enterenter the darkest pointwith longingfaith will bring lightTake rootreach pastcrabs burrowed therebonesof cormorants

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When you create you lose yourself in your creation. Time seems to stand still and all else is forgotten. You participate in the divine play that is creativity. These moments offer a glimpse of who you really are: a being fashioned in the image and likeness of God. Like the source of all creation, you are a creator, too. It is your divine birthright. The person who says "I'm not creative" is

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Sri Chinmoy tells a story about a pious man who studies the scriptures devotedly, and likes to discuss philosophy with a scholar who comes to visit him. They earnestly discuss the path to spiritual liberation, but deep in his heart, the man knows this endless talk is not bringing him any closer to attaining his goal. Now, it happens that the man has a little caged bird in his room, and he likes

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Question: How to release deep-seated patterns of thought and behavior?My question has to do with a particular aspect of emotional release. I understand the need to become aware of the underlying belief that has created a particular negative emotion but how does a person actually release it? Once I have became aware of the false concept that has been operating in my life and the circumstances that

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a caraway seed stuck in my teethwakes me -unbittenhe is onepollen fluff blown by the storm.clipped toenails swept under the bed...long black hair clogging the drain...shiprecked loveeyes like deck chairs on the TitanicI hold onto Phallosfor survivalneedle jousting night alongthe ripped seamof 3 a.m.that day of his death...alwaysfrom After Many Years Absent & Other Poems©Mark Hannan 1993

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In spite of our conscious desire to love ourselves, we nonetheless are mired emotionally in ways that cause us to doubt, reject, criticize, and even hate ourselves. Before we can truly accept and love ourselves as we are, we need to acknowledge and experience the ways we are identified with a limited and negative sense of ourselves.One major barrier to loving ourselves is our unconscious

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Herodotus, 484?—425? B.C., Greek historian, called the Father of History, b. Halicarnassus, Asia Minor. Only scant knowledge of his life can be gleaned from his writings and from references to him by later writings, notably the Suda. He traveled along the coast of Asia Minor to the northern islands and to the shore of the Black Sea; he also at some time visited Mesopotamia, Babylon, and Egypt. By

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Night lies down, spreads out luxuriously widebehind naked Moon andMoon rests gently against Night's breastmarking their place in Time.Mars moves in close like a chaperonekeeping company with the Stars,sailors of Sky's vast fleet.They watch without envynot like jealous bridesmaids waitingfor their chance to shine as brightly.They are passing cousins.Some making return visits,others getting a first

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Once again, the Washington Post has published the winning submissions to its yearly contest, in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings for common words.And the winners are:1. Coffee (n.), the person upon whom one coughs.2. Flabbergasted (adj.), appalled over how much weight you have gained.3. Abdicate (v.), to give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.4. Esplanade (v.), to

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This excellent site provides concise synopsi of the following views of self.Copyright, 2000-05 by Terrence A. Doyle, PhDPragmatic View of SelfThe self is a complex process of gaining self awareness. We develop a concept of who we are through our interactions with others. This view is expressed in pragmatic philosophy in the works of Willliam James and George Herbert Mead, among others.Dramatism

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The Greek GodWho was Hermes? The great 19th century German mythographer, W.H.Roscher, identified Hermes as the wind, subsuming under this basic identity all of his other roles and attributes - Hermes as servant and messenger of the sky god Zeus, Hermes as swift and winged, Hermes as thief and bandit, Hermes as inventor of the pipes and lyre, Hermes as guide of souls and as god of dreams and sleep

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I love these cards. I feel that Michael Goepferd had no idea just how much he had accomplished with this beautiful deck before he passed. Brian Williams, historian, artist, and tarot deck creator certainly knew, as is conveyed in his sensitive text in the book that accompanies the deck. The book is written in equally artistic prose, which is a tribute to the fabulous linoleum blockprint cards.The

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Ernest Hemingway once confided to George Plimpton during an interview that he rewrote the ending to "A Farewell to Arms" 39 times before he was satisfied.Why so many rewrites? Plimpton asked.Because, Hemingway responded, he wanted to get the words right.Would that newspapers had more Hemingways. We ink-stained wretches can't rewrite every story ending 39 times and still make deadline. But for

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The White House at Night - June 1890 (Auvers);Oil on canvas, 59 x 72.5 cm (23 1/4 x 28 1/2")Gogh, Vincent (Willem) van (b. March 30, 1853, Zundert, Neth.--d. July 29, 1890, Auvers-sur-Oise, France).After Many Years AbsentSingle bits of many houses clumped togethergreen shingled eves, a patched chimneycracked, layered slate roofing, and attic dormersthe pale sky almost violet, fading inthis

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Copyright Hank Wesselman, 2002.It is no news to anyone in the Western World that increasing numbers of people are leaving our mainstream religions in droves.What is news is that this is not an atheistic movement. Quite the contrary. A wide-spread spiritual reawakening is taking place--one that is cutting across socioeconomic levels of achievement and status, one that is transcending cultural,

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Recently, a close friend of mine made the remark that our emotions for the most part are basic, primal, immature and unevolved.Ever since then, I have been ruminating on the veracity of this statement. Like most "truths," this seems to be equally true and untrue -- and therefore, possibly a half truth. In nature's scheme, nothing is wasted. The universe is a big jigsaw puzzle where everything

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A General Theory of Love by Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, Richard Lannon I highly recommend this book…….. A General Theory of Love, by San Francisco psychiatrists Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, and Richard Lannon, is a powerfully humanistic look at the natural history of our deepest feelings, and why a simple hug is often more important than a portfolio full of stock options. Their grasp

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by David Garrett IzzoReviewed by Toby JohnsonDavid Izzo's biography of Isherwood is part bio, part summary of the author's work, part in-depth literary anaylsis, and part spiritual philosophy. It's an impressive and interesting book. This is because Izzo's style manages to weave together so many themes and so many sources and because his subject had done precisely the same thing with his own

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The Common Thread is found in the philosophy contained within each religious doctrine, overlaid by myths, local histories and particularistic doctrine, it is the philosophical commonality that unifies all religions.1. The Divine principle in Hinduism this is the Brahman, in Buddhism it is the Mind, for Christian and Protestant mystics, it is the concepts of Godhead. Within the Mohammedan

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