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July 2010 Reading
(Influences/Influences)
... to convince any reader that the man is on to something. This book is required reading for our incoming first-year students at Rollins, and I’ll be interested to see how they respond to it. In the ...
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July 2010 State-of-the-Household Letter
(Journal/Journal)
... I’ve been trapped in my head for the last twelve months. A few weeks ago, though, I had the strong urge to stop reading and throw all writing instruments in the trash. No more words! I declared. Time ...
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June Reading 2010
(Influences/Influences)
1. Soul of a Dog: Reflections on the Spirits of the Animals of Bedlam Farm, by Jon Katz 2. Emergence: The Shift from Ego to Essence, by Barbara Marx Hubbard 3. ...
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Remorse, TN
(My Writing/Poetry)
... right-- the dishes done, the house clean, the fire blazing, Debussy playing softly on the radio upstairs, you splayed on the couch and reading so intently, like the news in books really matters-- ...
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Where Do Prompts Come From?
(Twelve Doors/Twelve Doors)
... of books I’ve been reading, activities I’ve engaged in, emotions I’ve grappled with, people I’ve adored, disappointments I’ve endured. Life seems like an answer to a whole series of cosmic questions these ...
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May 2010 Reading
(Influences/Influences)
1. Yoga Journal, June 2010. 2. Right Use of Will: Healing and Evolving the Emotional Body “Do not let another person tell you how you should be relating. Instead, let that person ...
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Live Life Beyond Words
(Sabbatical/Sabbatical)
I know of no single thing more conducive to great harm than the unrestrained mind. – the Buddha I’m wondering if I need to stop reading for a while. Every day for the last twenty years or ...
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Lean in to the Difficulty
(Influences/Influences)
... tested my endurance. I would have to be an idiot not to notice the problems. Though I’m trying not to see them as problems, but rather as wake-up calls. So recently I’ve been re-reading Pema Chodron’s ...
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Can You Wiggle Your Toes?
(Journal/Journal)
... all day. In my morning reading today, though, I realized one particular emotion undergirds everything I’ve been feeling about this life event, and that is disappointment. It came to me so ...
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April 2010 Reading
(Influences/Influences)
Morning Reading: 1. Toward a Psychology of Awakening: Buddhism, Psychotherapy, and the Path of Personal and Spiritual Transformation, by John Welwood. (notes below) 2. Shambhala ...
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In This New Space
(Journal/Journal)
... into in this time? Can I really consider something brand new coming out of this? Instead of just biding my time until the foot heals, filling space with movies and reading and visits from kind friends. ...
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March 2010 Reading
(Influences/Influences)
Morning Reading (lectio divina): 1. Radical Acceptance, by Tara Brach 2. Toward a Psychology of Awakening: Buddhism, Psychotherapy, and the Path of Personal and Spiritual Transformation, ...
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What is Your Dharma This Year?
(Sabbatical/Sabbatical)
... But this big question was the thread that Jeffrey wove through every writing session, every yoga practice, every meditation, every discussion or reading: What is your dharma this year? And in so asking, ...
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February 2010 Reading
(Influences/Influences)
Morning Reading (lectio divina): 1. Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha, by Tara Brach 2. Telecourse on Integral Evolution of Consciousness. ...
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I Think I'm Depressed
(Influences/Influences)
... I am prone to quiet periods of reflection, I have rarely, if ever, walked into the fog of depression. But recent reading has led me to think I just might be depressed. I’m reading Jon Katz’s book ...
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January 2010 Reading
(Influences/Influences)
Morning Reading (lectio divina): 1. The Dark Nights of the Soul: A Guide to Finding your Way Through Life’s Ordeals, by Thomas Moore. (notes below) 2. Radical Acceptance: ...
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The Last Issue Of Poets & Writers Magazine
(Sabbatical/Sabbatical)
... room. Then I brought it upstairs to the reading room, and it became buried under a stack of books I’m reading. The other day I pulled it out from under the stack and moved it to my bedside table. Then ...
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December 09 Reading
(Influences/Influences)
Morning Reading: lectio divina 1. Chapters Twenty-Three and Twenty-Four from The Wise Heart: a guide to the universal teaching of Buddhist psychology, by Jack Kornfield. ...
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Best Laid Plans. . .
(Journal/Journal)
... and confidence rocking. Then, Tim Lynch sends me an email on his reading of scientist Paul Dirac. Dirac, commenting on the process of creative discovery, says that this process is riddled with ...
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Two Buddhas in One Day
(Sabbatical/Sabbatical)
... Not much sympathy coming my way. Still, I was holding out for a sign. But then yesterday, I get this email from Tim: L I just finished reading your blog and LOVED it. Loved ...