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OLD THYME-Y CRYPTICISM #6
Break the word [...]
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I remember it said, by various people, of no more authority or wisdom than I, that people die in threes. Usually, I’ve heard that sort of thing out of the mouth of someone I worked with round about the end of the year after the death of a celebrity of some stripe. And [...]
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Tim Boucher’s got a new micro-post up in regards to the old saw that goes “Power Corrupts. Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely.”
His statement illuminates a different, more positive perspective on these things:
Power doesn’t corrupt. It’s people making stupid choices and letting themselves be lead around by the nose which corrupts them. What’s a stupid choice? Something [...]
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Here’s a footnote from page 223 of the advanced proof of Jeff Warren’s recently released book The Head Trip. To me, it’s one of those huge statements that underscores a lot about the scam that is the legalized drug peddling trade of corporate psychopharmacology. I have, as usual added the emphasis:
“Martin Seligman, former president of [...]
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Two thousand eight:
a snake poised to strike or perhaps it’s in mid-dance,
entranced by an unseen fakir.
it’s serpent head turned away from two voids
two eyes
round and round with no beginning, leading the way for the infinity
behind it.
It’s a good year to strike–that is, to act
and to be poised and ready and alert to act.
Taking a page [...]
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Came across the book Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (say that ten times fast) in the stacks while packing up for my physical move at the end of the week.
This quote seemed very much worth sharing as it sums up one of the main goals of living, if one is to make the most of the [...]
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You can admire the chutzpah and strategic skill of certain groups and individuals without necessarily needing to worship what they *do* with their skill and chutzpah.
There’s a line in The Magus where Conchis (the Mage) says something along the lines of people shouldn’t blame Hitler for having had the balls to play the villain. That’s [...]
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Bad habits are like little kids. If you present an opening, they will run all over you. It’s not malicious. It’s just what they do, they don’t know any better.
But guess what.
It’s up to you to teach them to behave better. You don’t have to be angry about it. In fact, getting angry at them [...]
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Katrina=Water
California=Fire
???= Ice
Pause. Let go of fear. Let go of fatalism. Let go of the way these events are framed, to attach you to negative emotions and debase you. Let all that go. Connect to compassion. Connect to an awareness of the beauty, wonder and fragility of life. Connect to [...]
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