Tag: peace
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Protected: Of Female Pilots, Peace and Being Seen (continued from … Of Trimester Grades, My Grandmother and Time) …
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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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Of Avataric Moments, Desire, and Change
Symbols link yearning and desire with the change and transformation required for the central character to achieve her or his goal. To the extent that you can attach a physical object to the goal your central character fights to attain, the more you solidify, in the mind of the reader, the experience of your protagonist…