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July 2010 Reading
(Influences/Influences)
1. No Impact Man: the adventures of a guilty liberal who attempts to save the planet and the discoveries he makes about himself and our way of life in the process, by Colin Beavan This is ...
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Final Summary of Sabbatical Activities
(Sabbatical/Sabbatical)
... on writing memoir. Sponsored by MAD about Words. NOVEMBER November 12-14 > Took a three-day teacher-training workshop with Beryl Bender Birch. November 18-21 > Integral Life ...
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July 2010 State-of-the-Household Letter
(Journal/Journal)
... it to say I’m on the mend, and I’ve learned powerful life lessons from each challenge, albeit, not the lessons I set out to learn. In addition to that good news, the other big news in my world is ...
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Twelve Doors is Leaving Home
(Twelve Doors/Twelve Doors)
... will take some bucking up to get me to send the manuscript out. But a few months ago, I had an idea that this book might have a life online. I’m in the process of learning how to do online tele-conferencing, ...
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Who Is In Charge?
(Journal/Journal)
... struggle with life.” This concept of surrender is one we’ve been struggling with for years as we’ve engaged in our spiritual studies and practice together. The concept is shot through the wisdom ...
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Remorse, TN
(My Writing/Poetry)
no, no, no I will not do it again. I said I would love you forever, but I can’t, I don’t. I am so sorry and deeply regret my too-early commitment to a life of green grass and white ...
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Where Do Prompts Come From?
(Twelve Doors/Twelve Doors)
... “I don't know,” I said, “but they just keep coming.” But of course I do know where writing prompts come from: they come out of my life. Almost all of them. Now I may be revealing more than I should here, ...
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May 2010 Reading
(Influences/Influences)
... Review, Summer 2010 4. Shambhala Sun: Buddhism, Culture, Meditation, Life, July 2010 5. Yoga Sutra, Patanjali 6. Resistance, by Barry Lopes (fiction) “I saw it as a life of ...
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Mahamudra
(Influences/Influences)
... mahamudra points to a way of experiencing the world, our lives, ourselves, that is free of struggle. Whatever you are after in life, or however you choose to define the meaning of life, in the end, satisfaction ...
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Misguided Yogi
(Lessons from the Mat/Lessons from the Mat)
... life, and we enjoyed a few moments sharing our very mixed feelings about living with a physical challenge. We agreed : Deep lessons hide within every difficulty. But as I drove away from the studio ...
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Live Life Beyond Words
(Sabbatical/Sabbatical)
... calm, accepting, happy even. The next day I’m anxious, confused, directionless, filled with doubts. Everyone has a solution. Who to believe? What is right? So after a year (a life time) of trudging ...
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Lean in to the Difficulty
(Influences/Influences)
... ease, relaxation, and spaciousness. These have seemed to be the antidote to a lifetime of hurry and striving and focus and effort. So I thought this year would be a sort of trial run for retirement. ...
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Dispatched
(Sabbatical/Sabbatical)
... I'm paying attention. There are issues in life—our life lessons—that simply will not be dispatched. Pema Chodron says, “Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.” And ...
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Can You Wiggle Your Toes?
(Journal/Journal)
... With those few words, I then move into the practice. Every life is filled with obstacles. I seem to forget that and continue to be shocked when posed with one. I am facing a huge obstacle right ...
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April 2010 Reading
(Influences/Influences)
... 3. The Life All Around Me by Ellen Foster, by Kaye Gibbons. (a novel) 4. Balk Talk: Teaching Lost Selves to Talk, by Joan Weimer (a memoir) (see notes below) Notes from Toward ...
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In This New Space
(Journal/Journal)
After I broke my foot, Marcie called to say she had dreamed about me. She knows more than most how frustrated I am with my shift in life circumstance, and she wanted to offer four questions for ...
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A New Kind of Balance
(Journal/Journal)
... deck and look at the garden, which is beautiful right now. I am confined to this house, and my whole life is pretty much in my head right now. Thinking, pondering, writing, wondering, obsessing: that’s ...
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Precepts for the Evolutionary Teacher
(Sabbatical/Sabbatical)
... significant in life so that they have a broader and more enduring impact on material success. 8. Students learn more from observing the qualities and focus of a teacher’s life than from the content ...
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Devotion to the Practice
(Journal/Journal)
Becky and I met today to talk about the future, our goals and intentions, and our deeper mission. We strive to answer the question, “What are you doing with your life?” We both committed ...
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Pop
(Journal/Journal)
It’s been four days since I fell down the stairs to the landing, sprained my ankle, broke my foot, and changed my life. My life. It was getting to be so nice. The horror of the ...