Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.---Søren Aabye Kierkegaard Why this title? Because I've heard that if you divide your life into 7 year chunks looking backwards, you will see patterns or directions during each of the 7-year time periods. It is a way to reflect back and see the … Continue reading 7 Year Chunks
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…or Text Instead of Call?
Photo credit: Dra. Blues, Flickr Don't use the phone.People are never ready to answer it.Use poetry.---Jack Kerouac
Picasso’s Dove and Learning New Things
I am always doing that which I can not do,in order that I may learn how to do it.----Pablo Picasso 1881-1973
Important to Laugh
Real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter. --Alan Watts
Escher and Taoism on One Page
Don't chase after people's approval.Don't depend on your plans.Don't make decisions;let decisions make themselves.Free yourself of concepts;don't believe what you think.Embody the inexhaustible.Wander beyond all paths.Receive what you have been givenand know that it is always enough.The Master's mind is like a mirror:it responds but doesn't store,contains nothing, excludes nothing,and reflects things exactly as they … Continue reading Escher and Taoism on One Page
Worldly Vibes
I pick up my sisal bag. The sand slips softly under my feet. The time for reflection is almost over. The search for outward simplicity, for inner integrity, for fuller relationship--is this not a limited outlook? Of course it is, in one sense. Today a kind of planetal point of view has burst upon mankind. The world is rumbling and erupting in … Continue reading Worldly Vibes
Atoms as Poetry
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images.----Niels Bohr
One Seeker's Story 