Category: Articles and Essays
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Of Vipassana, The Trauma of Birth, and Swords of Healing…
Buddhist teacher and vipassana meditation teacher, Thich Nhat Hanh, once said, “To bring about peace we [human individuals] must learn to live with peace.” Agamemnon, brother of Menelaus and wife of Clytemnestra, declares in Homer’s Iliad, “Peace is for the women, and the weak. Empires are forged by war.” While Clytemnestra’s role is unclear in…
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Protected: Of Apologies, Sincerity and Saying What We Actually Mean…
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Of Mark Halperin, Narcissism and The Words We Use…
What happens when what you say or how you say your words takes listeners’ attentions away from the point you are trying to make? Recently on Morning Joe of MSNBC when asked of his opinion concerning President Obama’s response to the GOP not backing down on opposition to higher taxes , Time Magazine’s Editor-at-Large, Mark…
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Of Books, Tension, and The Mind on the Page…
Presently I am reading Anuradha Roy’s novel, An Atlas of Impossible Longing . As with any good novel, interactions between the main characters are strained. Tension abounds, but not in a melodramatic way. The story moves with a nice speed for an opening. I look forward each evening–a hallmark that I have found a jewel…
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Of Arrows, Psyche, and Moments of Empathy, Grace and Redemption…
The outset of the Greek myth of Eros and Psyche, shows Eros leaning over the sleeping mortal, Psyche, and fervently prepared to strike Psyche with one of his arrows and create a wound that will command her to fall in love with a beast. Eros’s mother, Aphrodite sent him on this mission out of her…
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Of Knots, Persephone and Releasing the Seeds of Our Pomegranate…
“When peeling the pomegranate the goal is to release the seeds and discard the membrane surrounding the seeds”. How Do I Peel A Pomegranate by Ann Johnson Human relationships present a challenge much like peeling a pomegranate, or perhaps at time, like unraveling a knot that has formed in the chain of a necklace, a…
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Of Conundrums, Pockets of Time, and Water to Down Our Bread…
I once had a client who said, “We [humans] consist of but pockets of time. Spend time on things that don’t matter-waste time–and you throw away yourself.” As with life and pockets of time, humans also consist of a conglomeration of relationships, none so important as the one we hold with ourselves. Despite all, we…