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Gratitude

The most powerful understanding

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Borrowing Trouble

I was reading Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maude Montgomery. This is a book I’ve read more than once, and one I highly recommend for its warmth and its many characters. In it, I came across the expres...

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The Culture of Perception

Members of a society or culture share certain beliefs. What these beliefs are and how they change is the subject of Cultural Anthropology. One of its leading lights was Ruth Fulton Benedict (1887-1948...

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Looking Up

How many times a day do we look up?

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Do You Feel Lucky?

Luck is defined as success or failure brought about by chance rather than our actions.

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Good Things

A mantra is an utterance that is considered to have spiritual power. The word comes from Sanskrit, and literally means “instrument of thought”. A mantra is constructed from a sound, a word, or a phras...

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Happy What?

I used to compete in triathlons and the occasional marathon and half marathon. I loved the training more than the actual competitions. I would feel confident as the morning of each race dawned, having...

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Satisfaction

We all want to be satisfied with our lives but achieving that state can be difficult because life never allows us to reach a high point (or even a low point) and then stop. Life has a way of continuin...

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Changing States

If one finds oneself in trouble, beset by problems from every side, and filled with doubts and uncertainties, it is nonetheless possible to do something about the situation.

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Golden Days

We rarely recognize golden days when we are living them. Good can only be evaluated by what we consider bad, and bad by what we consider good. Contrast determines the difference. Habitually, we focus ...

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Useless?

took six years of Latin in Grammar and High School. Even in the 1970s, Latin was considered a useless subject, but for a subject that had so little ‘supposed’ utility, what has surprised me over the y...

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The Many Faces of Joy

Joy has many nuances. There is the joy of standing and looking out on the land, seeing the greenery of nature, the blue of the sky, of feeling the sun on one’s skin, the breeze on one’s face. There is...

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Some Thoughts on Love

Kakuzo Okakura wrote:

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The Mind-Killer

Frank Herbert wrote the novel Dune in 1965. Sales were dismal after its release, and critics didn’t take to it either. The publisher, Chilton Books, eventually wrote off the costs and fired Sterling L...

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Curiosity

When I was growing up, I often heard the saying: “Curiosity killed the cat. Satisfaction brought it back” *. Frankly, I found the satisfaction part rather baffling, but the “killed cat” stuck with me....

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Effort

Swimming is a skill I learned when I was little. I could swim after a fashion. Mostly, it was taught to prevent drowning. Later, as a kid, I swam in the ocean, snorkeled off the coast of Florida, and ...

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Studying to Learn

Many people dislike mathematics, sad but true. I can’t say I blame them. It has taken me an extraordinary amount of mental work and persistence to be conversant with only a small part. The subject is ...

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Intelligence

The greater the available information does not necessarily mean the greater the intelligence.

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Hovering

A modern problem with different solutions

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New Track

A different interpretation can change the road ahead.