Tag: loving
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A Man and His Dog
As we breathe in, and out, He is there. When we smile or laugh or cry, He is there. As the sun sets, And world fades into the darkest of nights, He is there. When the bones ache, And the memories have started to fade, In your heart, He will always, be there. – M…
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The Ideal & Anxiety`
The difference between your ideal self, the version of yourself that you aspire to be, and the manifestation that you currently embody, is the amount of room that the devil has to play. This situation provides a certain amount of angst and necessary integration. That is to say, if you are moving toward this ideal…
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Meaning, Value and The Worth of Man
How does one orient themselves in the world? This is one of the great questions of our time. If you’re born into a western country, like myself, you’re all the more likely to have been raised, even if nominally religious, from a secular worldview. This is to say that data and evidence trumps all else,…
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The Bees
My eyes close. I hear them. The bees. They are doing what bees do. The sound is so clear, so concise, its hard to distinguish where it ends, and where I begin. Wait. Perhaps there is no beginning or end. No! Merely sensory input, that insists on being interpreted in such binaries. Such a tragic…
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Rethinking The Pursuit Of Pleasure
We need to rethink how we culturally view pleasure. Look around you. I’m sure you will find most of the cultural value systems align with chasing that juicy little hedonic carrot. Whether it be pleasure in the form of a bottle (alcohol), a pill (take your pick) or a screen (pornography or Instagram), it’s pretty…
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Moments Of Impact
How many different lives could you have lived? In the infinite web of possibilities, how many different versions of yourself do you think may have flourished? I do not know, nor do you. What I do know, is that there are moments throughout our lifetime that have changed our lives irreversibly. They nudge us along…
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Vipassana Meditation – Looking Inward
What is Vipassana Meditation? Vipassana, or Insight Meditation, is the ancient practice of paying close attention to sensation, including thought, in an attempt to better understand the nature of reality and more specifically, one’s own internal perception of reality. It is believed to have been re-discovered by Siddhartha Guatama, more commonly known as “The Buddha”…
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What Is The Self?
So then, what do you think of when you think of your sense of “self”, or if you will, the “I” in which you believe yourself to be? Do you think of yourself as some sort of tiny being, sitting at a control panel behind your eyes, operating this thing you call a body? Or…
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What is Love?
What is love? Is it the emotion that arises as you watch the waves crash onto the soft white sand, smiling to yourself, as the wind sifts through your hair? Maybe its the warm feeling you get when a dog excitedly reacts to you rubbing his chin? Most, I’d guess, would say it’s the emotional…
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Limiting Beliefs
What does it mean to be human? To believe in ideas that can change the society around us, or concepts not yet conceived? To take something from inside our imagination and bring it out into the material world? We all have internal systems through which we interact with the world, built from beliefs and in-turn…
The Growth Philosophy 