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This is the space you give me now, and this is what fills it: a dank subway tunnel echoing with the dripping of water from the culverts above, a couple chattering intently on the opposite landing beside a pair of … Continue reading Journaling: This is the Space
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It’s not wrong thinking that leads us astray so much as thinking too much, which can cause paralysis, helplessness, and confusion. So the next time you’re stuck on the horns of a moral dilemma, climb down off your sacred cow, … Continue reading Journaling: Quit Thinking So Darn Much
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Trying to force creative production is ineffective, as creative forces don’t respond well to external pressure. To begin creative work we need only provide time and space to creativity and to then bid it come. Sometimes we’re at a place … Continue reading Journaling: Baiting Creativity
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How much hurrying is ever really necessary or frutiful? Isn’t hurrying just a way of mindlessly obeying an infantile, clamoring ego, either ours or someone else’s? If hurrying ever does create “extra” time, we hardly know what to do with … Continue reading Journaling: On Hurrying
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When I look out upon this earth and see These breathing things so seemingly self-making (Oh, how they burst and sprout and raise their faces!), These quickened things so solemnly sky-staring (This sky with lights and waters overspilling!), I want … Continue reading Poem: God Seeing
The Mindful Bard 