Posts Tagged ‘blog’
Selfishness: Self-centered V. Ego-centered
“A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.” ~ Oscar Wilde Selfishness, the way we are taught it, seems pretty straightforward: it is about acting or doing out…
Read MoreLet’s Hear It For The Boy.
“Within the masculine psyche, there is a creature, an unwounded man, who believes in the good, who has no doubts about life, who is not only wise but who also is not afraid to die.” Clarissa Pinkola-Estes, Women Who Run With The Wolves Ahhh Alan Garner (Zach Galifianakas’ character in The Hangover, above) … Just kidding. Or…
Read MoreIntroducing: On Being Confused
Introducing: On Being Confused. Or Conversations Between Me, Me, and You. I am overjoyed to announce that these vignettes, or tête-à-têtes, or ‘conversations between me, me, and you,’ are no longer waiting for me to get to you! Well, that’s not entirely true, a number of them are still waiting. But these two are ready!…
Read MoreNon-resistance
“Nothing on Earth can resist an absolutely non-resistant person.” It’s true. Think about air. Think about water. Think about being like that. Now by ‘that’ I don’t mean passive, or complacent, or inactive; not necessarily anyway. This isn’t a blanket statement to, in the face of injustice for example, just stand by and watch. This…
Read MoreWelcome.
Welcome to ‘my blog’. It’s remarkable that despite being a writer, or maybe precisely because I am ‘a writer’, in the more traditional sense (of essays, articles and books), I was really averse to adding a ‘blog’ to my website. But I did want to give readers broader access to myself, so I did what…
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