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This Moment of Now
In a moment’s spanlife expands to fill the void;a flower bloomingis a gentle breath of air:earth and sky come together. 04 JUN 2024 Share This:
Random Theory: cyhydedd naw ban
No bright, bleeding edge technology can by itself inspire us to see beyond the limitations that bind us to solutions posed by old minds, gurus and mentors with rigid ways, and coaches still running ancient plays. The revolution cannot be … Continue reading
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Tagged #BookofForms, cyhydedd naw ban, peace, poetic forms, revolution, technology, tools, war, Welsh verse forms
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The Art of Happiness
The question was, “How can I be more compassionate; how can my efforts to be compassionate be more effective?” His answer, politically careful, was that it was an individual question; that each person’s contribution was different, that one’s answer was … Continue reading
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Tagged action, activitism, compassion, Dalai Lama, peace, service, thought
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At the Lakeshore
Thoreau spoke of a quiet desperation: a sad affliction borne by other men, whose lives are filled up, not so much with silence but with a never-ending dulling din, the calling card of progress and its engines, whose pulse and … Continue reading
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Tagged desperation, Henry David Thoreau, idleness, Lake Catherine, peace, Walden, work
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Peace is a Verb
No passive meal, no rare stuff bird, true peace is not a noun, but verb; inaction, apathy and doubt that whisper are not her. She shouts from rooftops, making foul war shake in fear at her approach. Mistake not mewling … Continue reading
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Tagged acceptance, activism, challenges, change, evolution, pacificism, peace, war
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If you asked a Buddhist monk who fled the monastery as it burned down to the ground if he would miss it very much, I think he might reply “Some mornings, in the winter, purple clouds would split the sky … Continue reading
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Tagged acceptance, balance, Buddhism, daily poems, detachment, peace
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