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Mar 30, 20246 min read
What's a Symbol of Your Religion?
“If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.” Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm, first black woman in congress A...
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Mar 19, 20246 min read
The Amen Effect And Beyond
There is definitely openness to others' suffering that is dealt not with distress but with compassion. Matthieu Ricard A couple of months...
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Jan 1, 20243 min read
A Good Resolution for Us All?
Let our New Year’s resolution be this: We will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word. —...
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Dec 22, 20234 min read
Can You See What I See? Questions that Help
“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.” Michelangelo When John read my last blog, he felt sad. First, for him...
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Dec 20, 20234 min read
Gloria Steinem or Whoever was Wrong: Two Lessons From 50 Years of Marriage
“Look, you want to know what marriage is really like? Fine. You wake up, she's there. You come back from work, she's there. You fall...
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Sep 15, 20235 min read
How Can We Journey Well Toward the Finish Line?
The art of living well and the art of dying well are one. Epicurus Unless there is some time for being together psychologically -...
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Sep 8, 20235 min read
Naikan: Look Inside, A Daring Way To Find Gratitude and The Good Life
The idea is that if you practice the Naikan part of Constructive Living, life becomes a series of small miracles, and you may start to...
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Aug 30, 20236 min read
Stop! Don't Stifle That Gift - Go To Aristotle
“Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency.” Aristotle When we have trouble...
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Aug 22, 20234 min read
Why Did I Do That!? How To Switch That Question And WISE Up
"Know thyself” - well-known philosophical maxim originating in ancient Greece How can we be wiser? Particularly how can we be wiser with...
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Jul 4, 20234 min read
Three Habits, Or Democratic Virtues, of Highly Effective People...Yearning A More Perfect Union
I don't like that man. I must get to know him better. Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States Today on this Fourth of July,...
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Jun 30, 20236 min read
Bias Can't Be Outlawed, Now What?
"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced." James Baldwin, black American writer Our...
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Jun 13, 20233 min read
Freeing Ourselves From Prison... and Expanding Our Circle
“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and...
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Jun 5, 20237 min read
Awkward. The Questions That Lead To Love
With every true friendship, we build more firmly the foundations of which the peace of the whole world rests. Mahatma Gandhi...
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May 22, 20236 min read
THIS Makes You Young
“Everyone Desires Long Life, Not One Old Age” Jonathan Swift, early English satirist My older son, Hoby, is a human performance expert...
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May 10, 20238 min read
Peace, Inner Work, and We're All In This Together
While working on nuclear weapons I became acquainted on intimate terms with my own self-righteousness - the captivating, invigorating...
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Apr 18, 20235 min read
Bee-ing Better - It Cannot Be Otherwise
It is a mistake to think that there are times when you can safely address a person without love. You can work with objects without love –...
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Mar 14, 20235 min read
Everything Everywhere All At Once
You Are Not Unlovable. There Is Always Something To Love. Even In A Stupid, Stupid Universe Where We Have Hot Dogs For Fingers, We Get...
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Mar 7, 20233 min read
Sharing Stories Of The Good For The Good
"We are each other’s harvest. we are each other's business. we are each other's magnitude and bond." —Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000), First...
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Jan 8, 20234 min read
Living Our Values, A Surprising Obstacle
"Beware the barrenness of a busy life." Socrates “Everyone seemed to be in a blind hurry, and there was no relief in sight. Technology...
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Dec 15, 20223 min read
Want World Peace? A Better Relationship Harvest? Try More Farming
"It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn." B. C. Forbes, Scottish-American...
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