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Living in the Masters’ House
We live in the masters’ house. You look out the window, and you see exactly what the masters want you to see. A world of fear, full of terror, of scarcity and constant competition for necessities. How do we dismantle it? Continue reading
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Tagged courage, fear, freedom, Johnstone, Lorde, oppression, survival
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What’s Fabulous About the Human Race
Alan is a Lutheran minister who goes to a meditation class with me in San Francisco. He’s about 60 years old but looks 40, tall and straight with sandy hair and a relaxed way with sweaters. He started meditating four … Continue reading
Posted in creativity, miracles
Tagged art, cooking, cooperation, dance, food, Internet, meditation, music, Pollan, sports, survival
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Celebrate Your Variance
On the greater variance side, we find the artists, the change agents, the thinkers, the sexually adventurous, the loonies, all the people who give life some entertainment value. Continue reading
Posted in creativity, Reasons to Live
Tagged being yourself, bell curve, change, climate change, cooperation, evolution, evolutionary psychology, mean, sheep, statistics, survival, variance
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Life and Death are Relative
As we do about once a year, Aisha and I were watching ducks in a small lake in Golden Gate Park, across the road from a stand of redwood trees. The mallards with their gorgeous green heads, the black and … Continue reading
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Tagged Amy Tan, Bob Marley, Buddhism, Chuang-Tzu, Day of the Dead, death, ducks, Golden Gate Park, Heaven, Jill Taylor, Lao Tzu, peace, quantum mechanics, survival, Taoism, Zen
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The Soft Survive
Lao-Tzu wrote: Living people are soft and tender Corpses are hard and stiff The living grass, the trees, are soft and pliant Dead they’re dry and brittle So hardness and stiffness go with death Tenderness, softness go with life And … Continue reading
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Tagged adaptability, Bali, courage, Darwin, Lao Tzu, Native Americans, patience, peace, resistance, survival, Taoism
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Strange Survival Stories
Inspiration is taking the week off. (I think she went skiing at Lake Tahoe with Hope.) Instead, I’ve got two stories of people surviving for unusual reasons. If they’re too quirky for you, come back in a couple of weeks. … Continue reading