Tag: Meditation
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Love. The spirit of what matters
Are you sangfroid and do you possess neart? Do you have “the ability to stay calm in difficult or dangerous situations” (Merriam Webster) and are you strong-spirited, possessing “inner strength, courage, or fortitude”? (Word Guru) Neart is an Irish word, picked up by Word Guru, but is yet to make it to Merriam Webster as…
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Flow Revisited: Freedom within
One of my favorite books to read is, what I later learned, an anthropology text entitled, Millenium: Tribal Wisdom and the Modern World by David Maybury-Lewis. I didn’t say, “One of the favorite books I have read.” You see, it’s a book you can savor. You can pick it up and learn, and learn, and…
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Beyond Seeing: Feeling what you feel
It was in October of 1921 when Benton MacKaye’s article, An Appalachian Trail: A project in regional planning was published in the Journal of the American Institute of Architects. With the backdrop of socioeconomic detail, MacKaye proposed a trail to extend from Mt. Katahdin, Maine to Mt. Mitchell, North Carolina along the Appalachian mountain range. …
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A World of Possibility: The time is now…
There are some books that I have read that I think others may find extremely informative, moving and perhaps even life-changing. Here are two of them and some ideas contained within: Kelly A. Turner, Ph.D. wrote Radical Remission: Surviving cancer against all odds. She noted in the book that she had asked every physician she…