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Best In Life
I will open with a question. What is best in life? Peace. Variety. There are no wrong answers to this question. It’s the question itself that matters. I have a strong urge to give Conan’s answer. To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentation of de wimmens (in a thick…
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Why Give?
It can be an uneasy feeling when someone showers you with gifts. Indeed it can, for a variety of reasons. So shall we question giving in general? Why do we ever give anything? What has ever moved one of you to give something or some time to anyone at all? Even space? Why give space?…
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Virtue Forgotten
Everyone familiar with hypnosis? The principle of suggestion? Simple repetition is the root of it and is why even the most mind numbing and annoying commercials still lodge themselves in your memory and still come up in your thinking. Hypnosis itself is just the induction of trance, but people tend to identify the operations practiced…
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Giving and Getting
We do all give, often despite ourselves. Does it always go well? This is why we get caught up in the nightmare prison of getting, acquisition, objects and inventories, score keeping and budgeting. I only got out of that prison by a harsh breakdown. I’ve been doing the career thing but ten years ago I got…
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Bah Humbug!
Bah humbug! Bah humbug is a popular idea these days. The word humbug was a slang term meaning nonsense. We declare everything these days nonsense. It’s a very popular attitude, no? There are so many people who speak untruths. What of your personal life and attitude do you know for certain is an absolute fact? Do you…
Category: Giving
Everything is dependent on things it receives and the world endures through a variety of balances. The world itself recognizes two states of being, hunger or want, and peace or compassion. We give of ourselves according to how we see the world, and we see the world how we see ourselves.
You have to pretend before you will allow. So if we allow the dream to at first be a fantasy, we find it easier to keep with it, to give it our attention and company. There is no getting, only giving, no trying, only doing. Receiving is just giving space and time to experience.
“You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.” Kahlil Gibran (Lebanese born American philosophical Essayist, Novelist and Poet. 1883-1931)
“If you have much, give of your wealth; If you have little, give of your heart” Arab Proverb