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all change involves betrayal
what will you betray
the past or the future?
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If you look for evidence for a proposition you are invested in, you will find it - the emotional investment precedes the sourcing of "proof"
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Footnote to my WIP: "My life as a footnote" *
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* he bestrode the world stage like a crack between the floorboards
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The main task of parents is to get their children through adolesence and themselves through middle age...I'm not sure which is more important, and which is more difficult
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Comparisons are of the mind
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I seem to enjoy parenting - being a father - particularly to my male patients
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have the courage of your peversions
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If nothing matters then it does not matter that nothing matters
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It seems I can either be
the longing for eternity
or
eternity itself
but not both;
which do I choose?
I'm so busy I don't even have time to die (and this does not rest easily with me)
It seems I can either be
the longing for eternity
or
eternity itself
but not both;
which do I choose?
I'm so busy I don't even have time to die (and this does not rest easily with me)
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Play small
no connection is better that inauthentic "connection"
___________________________In Hebrew the word for building - "binyan" is related to the word for understanding "bina": Wise students build understanding, and understanding builds the wisdom of peace.
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I don't want to die
in the middle of things
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All is extremely well, although its parts often do not know this
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the only way to have your cake is to eat it
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"All that it takes for evil to flourish is for men to think they are good"
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How can I contribute? What piece of the puzzle do I have?
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The mountain of autonomy is reached therough the valley of dependence; the fertile fields of depend dance are reached via the mountain pass of autonomy
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Feeling overwhelmed? Just because you can't do everything doesn't mean you can't do something. And often some-thing, just a single thing, is more than enough. Rest now in that.
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I said “yes” and I keep on saying “yes” – ken bakodesh chaziticha...
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I am to baffled by my own contradictions to ever be an activist for anything other than clarity
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male superiority is a phallusy
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Only the wealthy can afford opinions
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Let go in order to grow
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My indifferent I charge a lot for
but my best I give away for free
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Are skateparks an expression of freedom or human hamster wheels? Nothing is good or bad but thinking makes it so.
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masturbation may make you blind
but not masturbating may make you unkind
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I live to serve
and sometimes being of service looks like
allowing others to serve me
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I have a strong desire to do my duty
although I have no idea what it is
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What Descartes really was trying to say: I think, therefore I am unhappy
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(I know you may think you know what it is, but can you know you are right, just because a lot of other people agree with you)
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Addictions, like weeds, grow in the cracks to which no attention is paid
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One of the hardest things to overcome is the belief that life should be easy
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The PT teacher was not one of those people blessed with self doubt
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Some problems are relative, and some relatives are problems
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I decided that my contribution to easing the suffering of others would be to not add to it with my own
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Some problems require no response - either they go away or you go away, tarti mashma
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I'm like a capacitior - thoughts build up in my head and I have to discharge them by writing them down (typing them down to be more exact)
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Welcome to the blobosphere (you know who we are)
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No more laughing....let's get down to some serious suffering
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A person must keep his word - unless it was not his
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No thought is better than a prayer
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To much humanities is making me inhuman
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The more people don't want something to exist the more it manifests, were they to accept it with love, fully and unreservedly, it would vanish
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Perhaps there is no need to embrace or capture the experience of the other, because when I speak from my truest "I" I also speak to, for and even from your truest "I"
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Things take time and time takes things
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The only way to have your cake is to eat it
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Its never too late to admit it's too late...
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It takes courage to admit you're a coward
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She's pretty and vacuous -
pretty vacuous
The protocols of the elders of celery - the Jewish plot to take over vegetable gardens and make chicken soup
I have been possessed
by The Naughty Dybbuk (use as title for my next book)
of poetry
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On some days my mind has me pinned down
by the short and curlies
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It must be said again and again - the most fundamental, perhaps the only freedom - is freedom from unexamined thoughts, from the belief that what we think is true, or is the only truth. Indeed, we shape our universe thought by thought, and are free to discard, disbelieve and reshape our thoughts at any time.
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My (is it mine, or is it just coming through "me"??) truth telling happens in time, and at its own time, over time, and I will not let my monkey mind dictate to me when that truth telling is "supposed" to happen.
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The desire to fit in has often led to one form or another of murder
When I seek to change others or myself, I inhibit the change that is already happening effortlessly, by itself
I have some students who are too stupid to know that they are stupid
What I've always wanted is immunity from pain, suffering and vulnerability - - not much to ask for, is it?
Daniel Suttner (aged 6)
"can you take a picture of my sunburn so that I can see it"
To his brother aged 8: "You're not the boss of me" Indeed.
(aged 7)
"I think I have an attergy to milk"
Dads are never sad. They are always happy. They do wonderful things for their selfs and to other people. They wear nice close [sic.] every day and they never get late for school each day. Dads are wonderful but [and here comes the punchline] they are not as good as you! We love you so so so much - happy father's day abba
Guy Suttner (aged 8)
"I love my dad because he is generous, artistic and enthusiastic. He is respectful and honourable to others. My dad is funny, willing and caring. He is healthy, happy and excitable. I love my dad."
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Guy (9) to Daniel: "Put my sock back or face the coincidences"
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If I were to do a cartoon of Guy aged 8, one panel would be labelled: Guy with a private adult conversation happening within a 50 meter radius, and would show him at normal size but with ears the size of dinner plats or bigger, ready to pick up every whispered word.
The second panel would be: Guy being asked to clean his room or do his homework or have a bath etc etc, and would show him at normal size but sans ears or only with two tiny lizard ear holes through which sound can hardly penetrate.
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Guy's Friend Nick: because you're a guest you choose what we do
Guy: OK, I choose that you must choose what we do
etc. etc.
To a departed
now that you’re gone
who will I hang
my resentment on?
Blessing on finding my shoes:
Baruch ata Ad-nai elokeynu chai haolamim, asher ayn milim befi letaayr oto
HaShem
if I can ask for anything
let it be
to sit in my armchair
once or twice a week
listening to the cricket's chirp
A secure building is an insecure building
and a man with a gun is expecting attack
in a society where everything is permissible and there are no taboos, then nothing is valuable
taboos are a way of creating drama, tension, excitation
Things take time...and time takes things
Hayom ani mashkiv et beni
veyom echad hu yashkiv oti
It sounds better in the Hebrew but the rough English translation is
"Today I lay my son down [to sleep]
and one day he will lay me down too
Must a killer be true to his killer nature in order to live in integrity???I found a sick pigeon
and gave it some water
when I returned
it had gone (tho its body was still there)
I am, most likely, too focused on people’s resistance to becoming conscious rather than giving some space and attention to the irrestible (ultimately) forces that want to wake them up.
Picture the scene: a germophobic and prissy grandma has to baby sit her two fluey grandchildren – and she does so by keeping an elaborate distance from them, and histrionically shielding her nose and mouth whenever they get anywhere near her….punch line could be her donning a gas mask after they’ve sneezed on her one two many times…and then they run screaming from her in terror, or mom and dad come back home and she opens the door for them in a gas mak, and two their anxious questions responds in a muffled gas mask voice that everything is OK, then shows them the children cowering under their beds in terror
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