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To Slide or Not to Slide
To Slide or Not to Slide? Keep a firm grasp on what keeps you alive and gives your life meaning. Don’t abandon yourself to anything. We’ve all had lapses of discipline, but it is crucial to learn from them so we don’t perpetuate mistakes. Here are some things I’ve learned from my own struggles with…
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To Slide or Not to Slide
To Slide or Not to Slide? Keep a firm grasp on what keeps you alive and gives your life meaning. Don’t abandon yourself to anything. We’ve all had lapses of discipline, but it is crucial to learn from them so we don’t perpetuate mistakes. Here are some things I’ve learned from my own struggles with…
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Dead End
Some paths are inherently self-defeating. The I Ching very succinctly describes one of the most classic dead-end paths this way: “He who seeks nourishment that does not nourish reels from desire to gratification and in gratification craves desire. Mad pursuit of pleasure for the satisfaction of the senses never brings one to the goal. One…
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Don’t Hate, Discriminate
When we experience some thing, person, situation or whatever that we don’t like it is fine to discriminate — discriminate in the sense of discern — that it is not for us, not something we approve of, want to participate in and so forth. It is quite another thing to actively project hatred toward the…
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Slow Down, You’re Already There
“Where are you rushing to young man? You’re already there.” — Old Venetian Saying We’ve been conditioned to lean forward in time, to chase after the red balloons, the dangling carrots, the golden ring, the hottie, the soul mate, the ideal weight, the image of success. We hurry through time, afraid that we’ll miss it.…
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You’re Already There
“Where are you rushing to young man? You’re already there.” — Old Venetian Saying We’ve been conditioned to lean forward in time, to chase after the red balloons, the dangling carrots, the golden ring, the hottie, the soul mate, the ideal weight, the image of success. We hurry through time, afraid that we’ll miss it.…
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Reality Definitions
“The struggle for definition is veritably the struggle for life itself…In ordinary life, the struggle is [for symbols]…whoever first defines the situation is the victor.” — Thomas Szasz One of the chief factors governing the quality of our lives, perceptions, relationships, and also the power struggles between individuals and groups, are reality definitions. A reality…
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Reality Definitions
“The struggle for definition is veritably the struggle for life itself…In ordinary life, the struggle is [for symbols]…whoever first defines the situation is the victor.” — Thomas Szasz One of the chief factors governing the quality of our lives, perceptions, relationships, and also the power struggles between individuals and groups, are reality definitions. A reality…