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April 5, 2015
5 Keys to Maintaining Your Personal Authenticity *** As t...
5 Keys to Maintaining Your Personal Authenticity *** As the rather recent saying goes: “Be yourself. Everyone else is taken.” Authenticity is the practice of being truly yourself. Isn’t it odd that this should be so hard to do? After all, you are yourself, no? Yet the word “authenticity” seems to point to a certain way of being yourself, a ... Read More
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March 31, 2015
Do the Right Thing
When it comes to the Himalayas, is it possible to hike, or must one always trek?
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March 30, 2015
What Paintings are Great to YOU?
If I had never taken an art appreciation course and had never heard other people’s opinions, I wonder what works of art I would select as my favorites.
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March 24, 2015
How to Dodder
I’ve always thought it wonderful the way that some animals are born into this world with highly developed innate abilities, such as, for example, the way a baby bird just knows how to fly. Amazingly, I noticed the same about myself: the very moment I became old I instantly manifested the ability to dodder! And this without a single moment ... Read More
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March 22, 2015
But Children Are Starving
Dare I treat myself to a steam bath even though, at this very moment, there are countless tragedies occurring in the world?
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March 9, 2015
Working Title for my Next Book
I am not a People Person or, Would You Please Die a Little Later? I’m Watching the Ball Game
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March 7, 2015
February 28, 2015
How I Came to Write Jersey Yogi
My then wife, Janine, saw that I had a story in me that needed to come out. I’d been writing other stuff – mostly philosophical essays and things I call Short Pieces, but she noticed that I was still in great awe of the changes I had experienced when I first encountered Rolfing, and Muktananda. At a party, or any ... Read More
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February 11, 2015
A Fish Out of Water
Can deepwater fish who have never been to the surface conceive of space that is not water? To them, space is water. The air at the surface would be a totally different kind of space to a deepwater fish – a freer, lighter space. What would it be like for us to experience a freer, lighter space?
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February 5, 2015
200 Billion Stars
The term mind-blowing can be used in different ways: The concert was mind-blowing… It blows my mind that he tried to get away with it… I’m using it here in the sense of exceeding the mind’s capacity. Some astronomers estimate that there are 200 billion stars in our galaxy. This blows my mind. I can relate to the number 200 ... Read More
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