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Engage the World
We have not one drive, but two. A will to self preservation and fear, but also a will to power. Courage. A motivation to engage the world. Some soldiers do actually want to see the battle won, and we in our civilian life are not taught to really back up our desires, our goals, or values.…
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Willingness To Engage
A right level of productivity is measured by having a good feeling of engagement in life. An instinctive sense of “fullness” and a sense of continued willingness to engage. Even rejecting a metaphysical explanation, the body has an awareness of whether or not it’s operating at its full capacity. I’m thinking of times when I…
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Drive To Engage
As a young boy I was very quiet, but when I became a teen I reversed that and became very vocal and encountered disagreement at every turn from my family, from my friends. Everyone just thought me a fool. But for the life of me neither could I agree with them, though it would have…
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Engage The Spirits
I remember reading about how DNA can change inside an organism. It’s not as fixed as people think it is even in a life span. This is an established fact, and an otherwise stable gene may have no physical impact on you, because when the right material bonds to that gene it gets shut off.…
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Engage Anticipation Consciously
Attention is like a bow. Intention is the arrow, and anticipation is the skill of targeting. There is a discipline that works with this archery metaphor. I find it a simple guideline to help me reality check my internal behaviour against my experienced outcomes. In Zen archery, they teach both the skill of archery and a…
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Engage the Higher Powers
Adoration in its original sense was the veneration or even worship of a higher power. We still acknowledge higher powers today. Principles, if not entities, that are seen as absolute in their nature and influence. But for all these things that make us feel so small, is there much of a sense to them, a…
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Okay to Engage
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant. Anne Bradstreet What I’m Hanging Hope On Today: The vitality of life is only experienced in moments that remind us of the vital components of being alive. To really live we must remain continually engaged, not with the most abstract concerns we conjure up…