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I Think Therefore
I think; therefore I am whatever in here gives a damn and whatever lays inside the lines that separate me from my mind. I think; therefore I am, at least for that brief moment’s span until I stop and think … Continue reading
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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The Know of Unclouding: descort
What if I thought for just a moment of some mitigating circumstance that might prove beyond a shadow of doubt the single truth behind all appearances, and in that fleeting instant, found instead of solid rock, just cloud, and what … Continue reading
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Tagged daily poems, descort, French verse forms, ignorance, illusion, knowledge, paradox, poetic forms, thought
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Outside the Box
The next idea, the one that rocks, will be born “outside of the box”, beyond the thinker’s comfort zone, where daring, they have gone alone into the dark and scary mists to reap the untold benefits. But once they get … Continue reading
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Tagged change, comfort, genius, ideas, innovation, revolution, status quo, thought
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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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Tagged daily poems, education, experimentation, exploration, genius, ideas, thought
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The spheres of thought that tangents bring
The spheres of thought that tangents bring in touch with mine are lessening, perhaps in spite of my attempts to cross each bridge, and burn each fence so that the world seems more to me a web of connectivity. It … Continue reading
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Tagged creativity, expression, ignorance, limitations, tangents, thought
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