Care of One for the Benefit of Many (part 4) I remember a few years back when a friend of mine was carting her young child around attempting to do several errands. At each stop, my friend would unbuckle her child out of his car seat, drag him to the errand, and return him to […]
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Care of the One for the Benefit of the Many (part 3) In one of his books, Kurt Vonnegut writes: “Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you’ve got about a hundred years here. There’s only one
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In a speech Steve Jobs gave at Stanford University, he spoke of a quote that had impacted his life. The quote went something like, “If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you will most certainly be right.” Steve Jobs said that because of this quote, every morning he asked himself,
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I begin with a confession. I am someone who wishes their life could be easier. I long for a computer with less emails, a calendar with less commitments, a life where things were less complex, where work was less demanding, where time off and play were valued, and sitting on my porch reflecting and visiting
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Another great soul has departed this earth. I, along with many others, called her Mataji (beloved mother), and she was my teacher. How do I talk about the depth of love she evoked in me? How do I express her life-changing wisdom that guided my life in the direction of contentment? Where do I find
I have been reading Philip Shepherd’s book New Self New World. Along with many other observations, Shepherd notes that when humans learned how to build houses, the result was they successfully “created a space…that securely shut out the world of nature”. Emphasizing this point, Shepherd adds that the Warumungu of Australia called white men “enclosure
As the New Year approaches it is easy to find ourselves thinking about the things we “should” do next year. Our shortcomings become the guiding frame of our New Year’s focus, and our energy goes into efforts at improvement. What if we did something entirely different this year? What if, instead of imposing improvement on
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We can’t possess anything anyway, so it is funny to me how hard we try. We use things and people to prop our insecurities on. It is like putting chains on these things and demanding them to never move, never change, and be available when we need them to make us exceptionally happy. We attempt
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