Living Close To Life

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Living Close To Life

The pandemic has forced many of us to short our attention away from the outer world and thrust into our own inner world. The concepts of achievement and success that drive us in the outer world do not apply in the inner world. This leaves many of us lost, confused, and frightened. Now the we are reduced to the essentials, we have a chance to re-imagine our relationship with ourselves, with life, and therefore, with the world. In other words, it has stripped away some of what came between us and life. What brings you closer to life?

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Letter to April 12, 2020: Easter A Rising

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Letter to April 12, 2020: Easter A Rising

For me, Easter is not a question of faith. It is the acknowledgment of the awakened spirit, a kind of rising up to animate, or re-animate, the inert body, or to restore spirit to the inertia of one's life. And in this time of isolation, sheltered in our homes, we have a chance to re-animate our ives and the world in which we live. What new spirit do you wish to bring to life?

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For Your Eyes Only

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For Your Eyes Only

The world as we know it is filtered through our beliefs and expectations. This makes the world predictable but also unremarkable. This idea is best expressed in the quote: “We do not see things as they are, but as we are.” This is both good and bad news: It is bad news because we limit the world to our own limitations. It is good news because we can change the world we live in by broadening our perception of it. What is your background expectation of life? Of the world? of others?

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