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Sep 29, 20102 min read

Joanna Macy, “World as Lover, World as Self”

Of course, even when you see the world as a trap and posit a fundamental separation between liberation of self and transformation of...

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Sep 25, 20101 min read

Jeanette Winterson

Do you wake up as I do, having forgotten what it is that hurts or where, until you move? There is a second of consciousness that is clean...

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Sep 17, 20101 min read

I am de-militarizing my mind

I am de-militarizing my mind, taking down the barbed-wire strand by strand. There is or was barely a surface unmined but gently I am...

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Aug 30, 20102 min read

1952, John Cage and the ‘sound of silence’

There were – not one, but two articles on the ‘nada’ sound in this month’s London Review of Books. One, an article by Jenni Diski on...

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Aug 25, 20101 min read

A Rumi quote

This Rumi quote seems to encapsulate how wonderful the mindfulness was on Holy Island last week. Out beyond ideas of wrong doing and...

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