You wake from a dream and for a brief, unsettling moment don’t know who you’re meant to be. Both the waking and dream worlds are equally true in that liminal space. The pillow you’re holding and the lover who just left your arms have the same ontological weight. No less real than the room gradually…
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Just heard Grandma let out a rather sudden hiss that cut through the afternoon quiet like a blade through silk. She is sitting alone at the kitchen table, no book before her, no radio playing, no conversation partner to provoke displeasure. Yet something has reached across time to touch her – some fragment of memory…
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Main Article: My Impression: ‣ Happiness, it appears, comes from serving one’s individual needs and wants – even if this personal necessity is met momentarily by helping others or doing good. Meaning appears to come from existential dedication to the service of other people or a greater good, even when this commitment is at the…
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In our human tendency for egocentricity,Teach us to hold others close to heartRemembering that they, just like us, share in this life –Even if different from oursWe have our preoccupations, others have theirs, tooWe are busy, others are, tooWe think ourselves peculiar, others do, tooWe think ourselves sometimes weird,Others have their self-rationalize quirks and foibles,…
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