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Teacher Series: Ryan Holiday
I once had the pleasure of seeing Ryan Holiday speak. He is a generational author and teacher of wisdom and still only 36 years old. His mentor Robert Greene was ill, so Ryan spoke with a mediator. I had the privilege of asking him a question after his talk that…
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Eye of the Storm
“Believe me friend hullabaloo! The greatest events are not our noisiest, but our stillest hours.” – Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche ‘Thus Spoke Zarathustra’ In every hurricane there is an eye in the middle where the storm is absent. In every soul there is a center undisturbed by the world. In our…
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Poem: Together
Divided, conquered, scattered, lost,We stick to our own with resentful hearts. Yet all the while,Sensing within,A path to play our parts. The possible lies beyondOur impatient grasp. Yet alone we may find love,And wisdom from the past. In time,We may come together,To build a future to last.
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Carl Jung Series: Human Together
“There would appear to be a sort of conscience in mankind which severely punishes every one who does not somehow and at some time, at whatever cost to his virtuous pride, cease to defend and assert himself, and instead confess himself fallible and human. Until he can do this, an…
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New Beauty
Over the last few decades, new aspects of beauty are taking on new power and status. Looking over all of human history we see beauty as a good and bad thing. Consider beautiful works of art, music, scientific discoveries, philosophical ideas, literature, inventions. Or how about moments of redemption, epiphany,…
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Read & Live
To live is to learn from life. To live is to be with others, in a wide world. To live is to feel time and space. To live is to grow. To live is to fail. To live is a privileged. To live is to die. ———————————————- To read is…
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Stoic Series: I choose to be hurt?
Take away your opinion, and there is taken away the complaint, ‘I have been hurt.’ Take away the complaint, ‘I have been hurt,’ and the hurt is gone. – Marcus Aurelius: Meditations Chapter IV:7 Someone says something mean to you intending to hurt your feelings. They are there to be…
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The Chain of the Old
“If we see far, it is because we stand on the shoulders of giants. If you find my ideas hopeful, uplifting, and useful for creating positive change, it is because I stand on the shoulders of giants. My ideas are built on a foundation of ideas that came before me.…
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Carl Jung Series: Be Convinced
“Be the man through whom you wish to influence others. Mere talk has always been counted hollow, and there is not trick, however artful, by which this simple truth can be evaded in the long run. The fact of being convinced and no the thing we are convinced of —…
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Just do it. (Not sponsored by Nike)
“Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the way to make your soul grow.” – Kurt Vonnegut As a writer, Kurt knows full well taking action is critical. I thought of making this blog countless years ago but took no action. If I’d…
KEEP THE OLD WARM 