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I get asked to recommend books from time to time, so I figured I would start by recommending the books I’ve read so far this year: * What is Zen * The Tao of Physics * Bhagavad Gita : A New Translation * The Wisdom of Joseph Campbell * The Dream of Reason: A History
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I'm a spiritual person but I just don’t see the world you do. Don’t fall into a stereotype I’ve experienced too many times. My experience is that Christians and Muslims (in particular) take endless delight in making converts to their religion – usually in inverse proportion
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Researchers today announced that they've identified the area of the brain responsible for sarcasm. In a related story, Congress is applauded for its funding of very important scientific research. Ha! So, what does this have to do with anything? I'm in Connecticut this week staying at
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The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
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O me! O life! of the questions of these recurring. Of the endless trains of the faithless, of cities fill’d with the foolish. Of myself forever reproaching myself, (for who more foolish than I, and who more faithless?) Of eyes that vainly crave the light, of the objects mean,
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I read an amazing article two nights ago about an autistic savant that has the incredible ability to communicate his thought processes.
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Another year, another airport. Well, I tried to be a full time employee for a while and it just didn’t work out. I think I was better off in consulting. The company and I parted ways amicably … as amicably as possible. As in all break ups, there are always
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I'm sitting in Reagan National Airport sipping my Angel Food smoothie from Smoothie King and wondering where the past 3 weeks have gone. I'm getting ready to fly back west to Cali after a long, strange trip. It seems like it was just yesterday that I
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Today I slept in until 4:30 pm. By the time I woke up, It was dark again. Faced with an odd dilemma I couldn't decide whether I was supposed to take a shower, or not. I've been washing my hands with this new soap with