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culture

Shared

Like moths to some narcotic flame…

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culture

Letting Go

The discomfort caused by the dissonance between what (we think) we need to be and what we actually are…

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Philosophy

Through the Looking Glass

What if the world is essentially and fundamentally not what it appears to be ?

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culture

Words: Mistaken Identities

In a world such as this where we all have our guards up most of the time in response to the more bleak realities of life, we would still do well to remember that goodness, sincerity and honesty still exists within others and within ourselves…

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culture

Empty World

Some number of years ago now, I remember witnessing a filmic representation of something written by Charles Bukowski, its title eludes me. This was perhaps characteristically, miserably bizzarre and featured some peculiar and wicked strand of thought concerning a discovery that the narrator was the only real person and everyone else he encountered were soul-less, […]

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poetry

The Compass of Time

This was a brief poem I wrote in 2001. The overall feeling is of loneliness and observing emptiness in others…

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Philosophy

Void

There is so much discussion of mindfulness, what of mind-emptiness ? Lao-Tzu knew the eminent usefulness of that which is not there. Something which is nothing can in fact be absolutely anything…