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eThoughts : Slouching Towards Thriving?
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid. Heinrich Heine Beware again, now it’s random musing that follows. The ants used to build colonies in the garage. I chased them out many times. Then they came to forage and I was okay. As it turns out, it is not […]
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eThoughts : October 1, 2008 The Lazy Mind
Some days, some weeks, some months, some years, likely some lifetimes, some of us don’t feel like doing anything more energetic than powering our basic respiration. Struggling against the odds may be the stuff of movies, but as a way of life, it can just suck. It’s easy to fall into lazy mind—in fact when […]
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eThoughts : Struggling vs Suffering
Perhaps a helpful evolution for 2007 would be the ability to distinguish between suffering and struggling. Life appears to be a struggle at times and it appears that while we can dodge the struggle on occasion, we cannot avoid it altogether. Any kind of birth, learning, growing, etc. is marked by struggle. A baby chick […]
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- On Jan, 01, 2007
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