tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73724372024-03-14T00:36:24.740-04:00Inspired.Us<b>Old Wisdom for a New World</b>
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<a href="http://www.inspiredus.com/">www.inspiredus.com</a></p>Norilanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04409929111094755006noreply@blogger.comBlogger297125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7372437.post-36484905605194682812013-02-12T01:21:00.000-05:002013-02-12T01:23:03.906-05:00Your StoryOnce upon a time, began the story
of <i>you</i>.<br />
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Many perilous, wonderful,
harrowing, brilliant, delightful, profound things happened.</div>
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And yet—the most exciting twists
and best turns are yet to come. And it absolutely does not matter how old or
young you are.</div>
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<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Like a bright carpet of wonders, enjoy the unrolling
of your story.</span>Norilanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04409929111094755006noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7372437.post-27288295438685256872012-07-04T00:00:00.000-04:002012-07-04T00:00:12.474-04:00Patriotism<br />
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Patriotism is a thing difficult to put
into words. It is neither precisely an emotion nor an opinion, nor a
mandate, but a <i>state of mind</i>—a reflection of our own
personal sense of worth, and respect for our roots. Love of country
plays a part, but it’s not merely love. Neither is it pride,
although pride too is one of the ingredients.</div>
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Patriotism is a commitment to what is
best inside us all. And it’s a recognition of that wondrous common
essence in our greater surroundings—our school, team, city, state,
our immediate society—often ultimately delineated by our ethnic
roots and borders . . . but not always.</div>
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Indeed, these border lines are so
fluid . . . And we do not pay allegiance as much as we
<i>resonate</i> with a shared spirit.</div>
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We all feel an undeniable bond with the
land where we were born. And yet, if we leave it for another, we grow
to feel a similar bond, often of a more complex nature. Both are
forms of patriotism—the first, involuntary, by birth, the second by
choice.</div>
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Neither is less worthy than the other.</div>
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But one is earned.</div>Norilanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04409929111094755006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7372437.post-60159832908995696402012-06-18T00:00:00.000-04:002012-06-18T00:00:06.849-04:00Iced Tea: Meditation Puzzle<br />
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Imagine a delicious glass of summer
iced tea.</div>
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Take a long cool sip. Listen to the ice
crackle and clink.</div>
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Is the glass part full or part empty?</div>
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Take another sip.</div>
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And now?</div>Norilanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04409929111094755006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7372437.post-73721990666435232192012-06-15T00:00:00.000-04:002012-06-15T00:00:10.763-04:00Sun, Moon, and Starry Sky<br />
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Early summer evenings, when the first
stars come out, the warm glow of sunset still stains the rim of the
western sky.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Sometimes, the moon is also visible, a
pale white slice, while the sun tarries.</div>
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Just think—all the celestial lights
are present at the same time!</div>
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These are moments of wonder—<i>see</i>
them and remember.</div>Norilanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04409929111094755006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7372437.post-71727573114742115182012-06-13T00:00:00.000-04:002012-06-13T00:00:00.345-04:00June Gloom<br />
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What a strange thing it is to wake up
to a milk-white overcast June morning! The sun is hidden by a thick
cotton blanket of clouds, and the air is vapor-filled and hazy with a
concentration of blooming scent.</div>
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The world is somnolent and cool, in a
temporary reprieve from the normal heat and radiance.
</div>
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<br /></div>
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But the sensation of illusion is
strong. Because the sun can break through the clouds at any
moment . . .</div>
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What a soft thoughtful time.</div>
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In this illusory gloom, like a
night-blooming flower, let your imagination bloom in a riot of color.</div>Norilanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04409929111094755006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7372437.post-40813752264987260512012-05-01T00:00:00.000-04:002012-05-01T04:40:35.137-04:00May Day!<br />
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In the old days, May 1st was considered
the coming of spring, and celebrated as a new beginning.</div>
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<br /></div>
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At one point, it even became an
official distress call, spoken three times to request help.</div>
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<br /></div>
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In more modern times, it evolved to
become the international day of the working people.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Whether the first day of May is
Beltane, Samhain, Walpurgis Night, Labor Day, International Workers
Day, Lei Day, Loyalty Day, Roodmas, or a bank holiday; whether it
involves a carnival, marching in parades, the crowning of the Queen
of May and circle dancing round the Maypole, be sure to remember that
this day is extraordinary!</div>
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<br /></div>
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What is your May Day like?</div>Norilanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04409929111094755006noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7372437.post-33053750509691488962012-04-15T00:00:00.000-04:002012-04-15T00:00:03.600-04:00The Fern and the Cactus
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The cactus thrives in the desert while
the fern thrives in the wetland.</div>
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The fool will try to plant them in the
same flowerbox.</div>
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The florist will sigh and add a wall
divider and proper soil to both sides.</div>
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<br /></div>
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The grandparent will move the flowerbox
halfway out of the sun.</div>
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The child will turn it around properly
so that the fern is in the shade, and not the cactus.</div>
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The moral of the story?</div>
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Kids are smart.</div>
Norilanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04409929111094755006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7372437.post-65769800601273410702012-04-14T17:05:00.000-04:002012-04-14T17:05:02.011-04:00A Boomerang<br />
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A boomerang returns back to the person
who throws it.</div>
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<br /></div>
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But first, while moving in a circle, it
hits its target.</div>
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So does gossip.</div>Norilanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04409929111094755006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7372437.post-35330996995090806472012-04-12T23:01:00.000-04:002012-04-12T23:02:47.041-04:00Your True Name<br />
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Most of us have nicknames—annoying,
endearing, embarrassing.</div>
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<br /></div>
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But what about your true name?</div>
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<br /></div>
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It is not necessarily your given name.
But it is the one to which you are most <i>eager</i> to respond when
called.</div>
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Ever wonder why?</div>
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Your true name has the secret power to
<i>call you</i>.</div>Norilanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04409929111094755006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7372437.post-73160547413956097512012-03-20T01:37:00.000-04:002012-03-20T01:39:28.618-04:00Save the WorldIt does not take a great supernatural heroine or magical hero to save the world.<br />
<br />
We all save it every day, and we all destroy it -- in our own small ways -- by every choice we make and every tiniest action resulting from that choice.<br />
<br />
The next time you feel useless and impotent, remember what you are in fact doing in <i>this very moment</i>. And then observe your tiny, seemingly meaningless acts and choices coalesce and cascade together into a powerful positive whole.<br />
<br />
The world -- if it could -- will thank you for it.<br />
<br />
And if it does not... well, a true heroine or hero does not require it.Norilanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04409929111094755006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7372437.post-15545669033110100212012-03-18T02:15:00.000-04:002012-03-18T02:15:49.910-04:00Life and StoryThe difference between real life and a story is that life has <i>significance</i>, while a story must have <i>meaning</i>.<br />
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The former is not always apparent, while the latter always has to be, before the end.Norilanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04409929111094755006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7372437.post-44429495385392836732012-03-13T00:00:00.000-04:002012-03-13T00:00:03.932-04:00Strange Dreams<br />
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Strange dreams are better than no
dreams at all.</div>Norilanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04409929111094755006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7372437.post-73054655381802426642012-03-12T14:06:00.000-04:002012-03-12T14:06:23.528-04:00Not So Random<br />
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Luck is not as random as you think.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Before that lottery ticket won the
jackpot, someone had to buy it.</div>
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<br />
</div>Norilanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04409929111094755006noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7372437.post-29020178340351950072012-03-11T00:00:00.000-05:002012-03-11T00:00:03.100-05:00Wise Marriage<br />
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Wisdom is nothing more than the
marriage of intelligence and compassion.</div>
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<br /></div>
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And, as with all good unions, it takes
much experience and time to reach its widest potential.</div>
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Have you introduced your intellect to
your compassion yet? Be careful; lately, intellect has taken to
eating in front of the TV and compassion has taken in too many cats.</div>Norilanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04409929111094755006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7372437.post-72944787156823378952012-03-10T12:34:00.000-05:002012-03-10T12:34:19.808-05:00Pleasure: The Wind<br />
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Close your eyes and turn your face into
the wind.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Feel it sweep along your skin in an
invisible ocean of exultation.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Suddenly, you <i>know</i> you are
<i>alive.</i></div>Norilanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04409929111094755006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7372437.post-8873796394619276122012-03-08T00:00:00.000-05:002012-03-08T00:00:07.165-05:00Woman: Meditation Puzzle<br />
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A woman is human.</div>
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She is not better, wiser, stronger,
more intelligent, more creative, or more responsible than a man.</div>
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Likewise, she is never less.</div>
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Equality is a given.</div>
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A woman is human.</div>Norilanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04409929111094755006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7372437.post-14869303491426369762012-03-02T16:57:00.000-05:002012-03-02T17:00:40.685-05:00Act of Creation<br />
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One of the strangest things is the act
of creation.</div>
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<br /></div>
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You are faced with a blank slate—a
page, a canvas, a block of stone or wood, a silent musical
instrument.</div>
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<br /></div>
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You then look inside yourself. You pull
and tug and squeeze and fish around for slippery raw shapeless <i>things</i> that swim like fish made of cloud vapor and fill you with living
clamor. You latch onto something. And you bring it forth out of your
head like Zeus giving birth to Athena.</div>
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And as it comes out, it takes shape and
tangible form.</div>
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It drips on the canvas, and slides
through your pen, it springs forth and resonates into the musical
strings, and slips along the edge of the sculptor’s tool onto the
surface of the wood or marble.</div>
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You have given it cohesion. You have
brought forth something ordered and beautiful out of nothing.</div>
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<br />
You have glimpsed the divine.</div>Norilanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04409929111094755006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7372437.post-43887903471817996142012-02-29T00:00:00.000-05:002012-02-29T00:00:09.148-05:00Quantum Ghost<br />
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Today is an ephemeral ghost . . .</div>
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A strange amazing day that comes only
once every four years. For the rest of the time it does not “exist.”</div>
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In mundane terms, it marks a “leap”
in time, when the calendar is adjusted to make up for extra seconds
accumulated over the preceding three years due to the rotation of the
earth. A day of temporal tune up!</div>
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<br /></div>
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But this day holds another secret—it
contains one of those truly rare moments of delightful transience and
light uncertainty that only exist on the razor edge of things, along
a buzzing plane of quantum probability . . .</div>
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A day of unlocked potential.</div>
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Will you or won’t you? Should you or
shouldn’t you?
</div>
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<br /></div>
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Use this day to do something daring,
extraordinary and unlike yourself. Take a chance and shape a
<i>different pattern</i> in your personal cloud of probability!</div>
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<br /></div>Norilanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04409929111094755006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7372437.post-82131212880897242052012-02-24T00:01:00.000-05:002012-02-24T00:01:00.174-05:00Magical<br />
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Incidentally, the world <i>is</i>
magical.</div>
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Magic is simply what’s off our human
scale . . . at the moment.</div>Norilanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04409929111094755006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7372437.post-37013102966591854982012-02-23T02:34:00.000-05:002012-02-23T02:34:47.616-05:00Secret Ignorance<br />
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It’s a fact—<i>everyone</i> is
ignorant in some way or another.</div>
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Ignorance is our deepest secret.</div>
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And it is one of the scariest things
out there, because those of us who are <i>most</i> ignorant are also
the ones who often don’t know it or don’t want to admit it.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Here is a quick test:</div>
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<br /></div>
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If you have <i>never</i> changed your
mind about some fundamental tenet of your belief, if you have never
<i>questioned</i> the basics, and if you have <i>no wish</i> to do
so, then you are likely ignorant.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
Before it is too late, go out there and
find someone who, <i>in your opinion,</i> believes, assumes, or
considers certain things very strongly and very differently from you,
and just have a basic honest conversation.</div>
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<br /></div>
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It will do <i>both</i> of you good.</div>Norilanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04409929111094755006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7372437.post-19335710206825604882012-02-19T00:40:00.000-05:002012-02-19T00:40:11.805-05:00Wisdom and Beauty<br />
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Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so
wise?</div>
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<br /></div>
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Because all else is temporary, while
beauty and wisdom are the only real and constant aspects of truth
that can be perceived by human means.</div>
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<br /></div>
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And I don’t mean the kind of surface
beauty that fades with age, or the sort of shallow wisdom that gets
lost in platitudes.</div>
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<br /></div>
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True beauty grips your gut and squeezes
your lungs, and makes you <i>see</i> with utmost clarity exactly <i>what</i>
is before you.</div>
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<br /></div>
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True wisdom then steps in, to
interpret, illuminate, and form a life-altering insight.</div>
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<br /></div>Norilanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04409929111094755006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7372437.post-34095305968424963232012-02-14T00:00:00.000-05:002012-02-14T00:00:07.433-05:00Love<br />
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Love—not dim and blind but so
far-seeing that it can glimpse around corners, around bends and
twists and illusion; instead of overlooking faults love sees <i>through</i>
them to the secret inside.</div>
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— <span style="font-size: x-small;">from <a href="http://www.fantasy-magazine.com/non-fiction/articles/the-story-of-love-by-vera-nazarian/">“The Story of Love”</a> by Vera Nazarian</span></div>Norilanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04409929111094755006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7372437.post-79055800900301954042012-02-13T00:00:00.000-05:002012-02-13T00:00:02.001-05:00Personal Justice<br />
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You cannot be fair to others without
first being fair to yourself.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Know that a well-honed sense of justice
is a measure of personal experience, and all experience is a measure
of self.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Know that the highest expression of
justice is mercy.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Thus, as the supreme judge in your own
court, you must have compassion for yourself.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Otherwise, cede your gavel.</div>Norilanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04409929111094755006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7372437.post-14236969012793539262012-02-12T02:02:00.000-05:002012-02-12T02:02:04.533-05:00Use Your Relief<br />
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Relief is a great feeling.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
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It’s the emotional and physical
reward we receive from our bodies upon alleviation of pain, pressure
and struggle. A time to bask in the <i>lack</i> of the negative.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
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And yet, think about it—relief is
really the <i>status quo,</i> a negation of the suffering, a <i>nothing</i>
in itself. It is the way things <i>were</i> before the pressure and
struggle began.</div>
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So, is it a step back? A regression?</div>
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Or is it an opportunity to regroup,
start over, and move in a different direction?</div>
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Use your moment of relief well.</div>
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<br /></div>Norilanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04409929111094755006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7372437.post-47073430942101141302012-02-10T01:49:00.000-05:002012-02-10T01:51:52.238-05:00Karma Smackdown<br />
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<i>Karma</i> has been a pop culture
term for ages. But really, what the heck is it?</div>
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Karma is not an inviolate engine of
cosmic punishment. Rather, it is a neutral sequence of acts, results,
and consequences.</div>
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Receiving misfortune does not
<i>necessarily</i> indicate that one has committed evil. But it is a
<i>sufficient</i> indicator of something else.</div>
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And that something else can be
<i>anything,</i> as long as it is a logical consequence of what has
come before.<br />
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Consider: if you fall into a well, you
are not a bad person who deserves to suffer—you are merely someone
who took a wrong step. Or someone who had one drink too many. Or got
a head rush due to poor circulation. Or forgot to wear your glasses.
Or—</div>
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The reasons are plentiful, and all
plausible. But the chain of cause and effect goes way, way back into
the deepest hoariest recesses of your personal past.</div>
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So never rule out retribution. But
never expect it.</div>Norilanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04409929111094755006noreply@blogger.com0