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Epiphany

Brace yourself. Epiphany does not arrive in slow reveal; long years spent over ancient tomes will like as not have no result. The right idea, when it comes, is more like lightning than the storm: a flash that cracks the … Continue reading

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On Tools

What future use will be our tools for building greater monuments, technologies to reach beyond our yesterday capacity, if all that drives tomorrow’s will is to create for their own sake more grand machines to take the place of what … Continue reading

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Leaving Something Good

The kind of bands that play the music that I write these days seem few and far between; somewhere between grasping the brass ring and the consequences lie some broken dreams. Just for myself, it doesn’t matter much; but without … Continue reading

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The Spell Kit

Why bother to meditate, chanting some mantra for years, servant to some potentate guru’s smoke and mirrors? You’re right to hesitate; what proof describes an answer a fool could appreciate? Only a clever dancer could be seen no hypocrit. Your … Continue reading

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Confucious

The words that rend my soul’s speech are my own; they are not borrowed from another’s lines. From someone else’s field, of their seeds sown, come not the fruits due me at harvest time. To posit otherwise is to admit … Continue reading

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Addled Essence

“The problem,” he said, “with making life so easy, particularly for the young adult, is two-fold. First, a life of leisure without significant responsibility or strife is bound to result in an attitude of mere idolent malaise — which of … Continue reading

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The Ten Percent Solution

Lobotomy perhaps provides the clues: that with what meager portion of the brain society encourages us to use and education bothers us to train, we think, and therefore are, so far reduced from what potential might be in the whole … Continue reading

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