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Everyday I have more clarity
Every day there’s more and more clarity in my life. Every day something that I used to believe falls away. Pointless beliefs, useless attitudes, and unnecessary emotions fall away and are replaced by a greater joy. Every day I drop something that has been chewing up bandwidth and taking my mind away from what’s really…
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Words
I love words. I love learning new words. I love speaking. I love reading the written word. I love hearing the spoken word. I love hearing other people speak I love to read books that are little more than one word stacked upon another and another until a wonderful story has been told. I love…
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Half-Lessons are lives half-lived
A full lesson (truth) is one that is understood as fully emotionally as it is intellectually. It is known not only in the mind but the heart. I am convinced that most of us are brim full of what I call “half-lessons” (you may call these half-truths). Among other things, life is an experiential process. When…
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Existence
Dualism is the concept that matter and consciousness are separate. As hydrogen and oxygen combine to form water, so matter and consciousness combine to form existence–or life. At some point when the body dies, the conscious portion is split away while the body decomposes to a different form of matter. Non-dualism is the notion that…
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My Dear Students
Friends, On this very sad day for our campus, I just wanted to send an email to each of my current and former students. Please forgive me if you receive several copies of this. I am using blackboard to communicate and some of you may have had several classes with me. I just want all…