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A SURVIVOR’S GUIDE FOR TRYING TIMES: PICK YOUR OWN TITLE (opens the original)
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A SURVIVOR’S GUIDE FOR TRYING TIMES: PICK YOUR OWN TITLEThe Tao TE Ching and Zhuangzi (the two fundamental texts of Tao) were inspired by the observation of the harmony and beauty of the natural world: the ebb and flow of the tides, the phases of the moon which tells us when to sow and when to harvest, the cyclical nature of the seasons, the rivers always flowing to their source.It speaks as rivers flowing effortlessly to the sea, returning to their source, the clouds nourishing all life with pr
A SURVIVOR’S GUIDE FOR WRITING ON SUBSTACK (opens the original)
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RESISTANCE: THIS IS WHERE I STANDA person who has not been completely alienated, who has remained sensitive and able to feel, who has not lost the sense of dignity, who is not yet “for sale”, who can still suffer over the suffering of others, who has not acquired fully the having mode of existence - briefly, a person who has remained a person and not become a thing - cannot help feeling lonely, powerless, isolated in present-day society. He cannot help doubting himself and his own convictions, i
WAKAN TANKAN NICI UN (opens the original)
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WAKAN TANKAN NICI UN: (MAY THE GREAT SPIRIT WALK WITH YOU) Sioux and Lakota language. The Lakota and Cheyenne peoples were part of a larger Sioux First NationI am going to venture that the man who sat on the ground in his tipi meditating on life and its meaning, accepting the kinship of all creatures, and acknowledging unity with the universe of things was infusing into his being the true essence of civilization.The European Settlers colonizing and conquering others have a propensity for this, f
SURVIVOR’S GUIDE FOR TRYING TIMES: COMMUNITY (opens the original)
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BUILD YOUR COMMUNITYOur Blue Planet is but a speck of dust, amongst billions of planets, moons, suns, supernovas and galaxies. We have not yet found signs of life out there in the unfathomable vastness and the emptiness of space. We feel so lost, so cut off, so alone, only really we’re not. You see, in all of our searching, the only thing that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other, is love.’ Carl SaganThe only thing that makes the emptiness bearable. is each other, is love.Many years ago I
SURVIVOR’S GUIDE FOT TRYING TIMES (opens the original)
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Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is... we cannot expect things to be much better in this world... We cannot have peace among men whose hearts delight in killing any living creature. By every act that glorifies or even tolerates such moronic delight in killing we set back the progress of humanity. Rachel CarsonWAKAN TANKAN NICI… Read more
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