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Walking Meditation 20130205 & Comments
The good is one thing, the gratifying is quite another; their goals are different, both bind a man. Good things await him who picks the good; by choosing the gratifying, one misses one’s goal. Both...
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The Leisure to be Your Own Self
“You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.” ― Eckhart Tolle Aware. Awakened. Enlightened. Mindful. Many ways of describing...
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Already Falling in Love
The deluded among us who confound power with political position and happiness with wealth propagate a great confidence game, a colossal con, a great grift. They believe and would have all else believe...
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Thinking without Professional Recognition
©2013, Shaina Sheaff Photography I work in and around higher education in the United States, but I am not a professor. I sometimes say that I am in the academy but not necessarily of the academy. This...
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Honest Acknowledgment
The habit of employing self-deception to maintain one’s self esteem has often become so ingrained that the first step to developing accurate self-awareness is honest acknowledgment of the existence of...
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The Three Horsemen of the MOOCpocaplypse
A small foray into the political after a few weeks of mostly concentrating on spirituality. But not too far in as my concern is prompted by my contemplation. I want to thank my good brother Lance W....
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Walking Meditation 20130309
“Everybody knows how useful it is to be useful; nobody knows how useful it is to be useless.” -Zhuangzi Contemplating how seeking after the future makes all things but mere tools on the way to success...
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How does Vandana Shiva do it?
Reading Freire‘s Pedagogy of the Oppressed and other works that are transforming my anarchocynicism, my thoughts keep returning to Vandana Shiva. “[How do I do it?] Well, it’s always a mystery, because...
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It’s the actor in the interaction not the internet in the actor
Nice experiment by a gent who left the internet behind for twelve months after being connected in some fashion for thirteen years. I am reminded of how often in a town like Denton or even New York,...
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Pseudo-Modernism
An interesting entry from Alan Kirby at the British magazine Philosophy Now. Very well worth the read, and I hope it will spawn a few thoughts from me on the Society of Control. Let’s see what happens....
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