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“You could tell the secret of life ten times over, and it would still be safe. After all, the secret is only known when people make it real in their own lives, not when they simply hear it.” — Deng Ming-Dao (a modern Taoist sage) “It is common to overlook what is near by keeping…

The value of perseverance has been recognized by people of every culture and every period. If plants and animals could articulate the key principles they live by, perseverance would be chief among them. The I Ching is the world’s oldest book and the mother source of almost all Eastern thought and culture. Hexagram 32 is…

Journeying is an archetypal human experience. I often feel the call to adventure as Winter turns to Spring, the urge to get out of the house and experience home on the road. Staying in one place for too long so easily and inevitably becomes a stagnant routine. Emerson said: “The problem with traveling is you…

“In every cry of every man, In every infant’s cry of fear, In every voice, in every ban, The mind forged manacles I hear…” — William Blake, Songs of Innocence INFANT SORROW My mother groaned! my father wept. Into the dangerous world I leapt: Helpless, naked, piping loud: Like a fiend hid in a cloud.…

The value of perseverance has been recognized by people of every culture and every period. If plants and animals could articulate the key principles they live by, perseverance would be chief among them. The I Ching is the world’s oldest book and the mother source of almost all Eastern thought and culture. Hexagram 32 is…

Often we are so mesmerized by long term goals, by what is presently unavailable, by the past, by what is out of reach, that we fail to notice or act on things within our reach right now. Each day is like a stream flowing from awakening to bedtime. If we’re not fully awake and engaged,…

One of the most crucial defenses from the many hardships of the Babylon Matrix is the maintaining of inner dignity. Many of us, with the giddy and naive optimism of the disincarnate, chose to incarnate into the human form, never fully realizing the almost infinite array of indignities and inconveniences involved in such a corporeal…

“No fate but what we make.” Terminator 2: Judgment Day Often we tend to think that the answer to what troubles us lies fully formed somewhere, and we need only seek out that fully formed answer through an oracle or some other means. But perhaps we are, as George W. Bush would say, “The Decider.”…

“No fate but what we make.” Terminator 2: Judgment Day Often we tend to think that the answer to what troubles us lies fully formed somewhere, and we need only seek out that fully formed answer through an oracle or some other means. But perhaps we are, as George W. Bush would say, “The Decider.”…