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Stop Groundhog Day?
When Chekhov saw the long winter, he saw a winter bleak and dark and bereft of hope. Yet we know that winter is just another step in the...
Feb 38 min read
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Tennessee Wisdom: Beware of Snootiness
Contempt is the sulfuric acid of love . Dr. John Gottman, relationship expert “How did this happen? I just don’t understand.” That’s...
Nov 15, 20248 min read
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Message from a Vet - Be a Hero: Stop the Fight and Start the Quest
There is what I would call the hero journey, the night sea journey, the hero quest, where the individual is going to bring forth in his...
Nov 11, 20248 min read
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Self-Help For Society: We Must Not Be Enemies
"If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of...
Nov 7, 20249 min read
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What Is Theory of Mind? Why Should We And How Can We Develop It?
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk...
Oct 12, 20247 min read
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Healing: True Woo, Placebo, and Kindness
We have been endowed with just enough intelligence to be able to see clearly just how utterly inadequate that intelligence is when...
Sep 4, 20246 min read
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Anti-Aging: Maybe Some Blue Zones AND Mindset
Age is just a number. Embrace every stage of life and never let your dreams fade away. Carol Channing, Broadway star who continued...
Aug 30, 20245 min read
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"Born Bad": Can We Adopt A More Helpful, Accurate, and Life-Giving Story?
"I think there's a natural goodness built into human beings. You know when you've stepped across the line into evil, and it's your life's...
Jul 22, 20247 min read
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Relationships, Flourishing, and Seeing With Our Autobiography
We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are. Anaïs Nin About forty years ago I had a quick conversation with a friend. He...
Jun 22, 20247 min read
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A Bigger Story than from Dust to Dust? Let's Hear from a Raindrop
So say it loud and let it ring We are all a part of everything The future, present and the past Fly on proud bird You're free at last....
Mar 28, 20245 min read
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Impossibilities
“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and...
Mar 25, 20247 min read
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Rose, Thorn, Bud: Self-Regulation Tools for Flourishing
Directing your attention toward the most important object of your choosing - and then sustaining that attention - is the most...
Mar 11, 20244 min read
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Beating Bad to Bits: The Rule of Four and the Negative Golden Rule
"That which is to you hateful do not to your neighbor. This is the whole law; the rest is commentary on it; go, learn!" Hillel, renowned...
Feb 17, 20245 min read
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No More Bad Tricks: Mindfulness and Questioning Everything...Including Aging
The more we realize that most of our views of ourselves, of others, and of presumed limits regarding our talents, our health, and our...
Jan 18, 20245 min read
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Can You See The Water You Swim In?
I don't know who discovered water, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't a fish. Marshall McLuhan, writer My parents were concerned about...
Jan 15, 20246 min read
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Can You See What I See? Questions that Help
“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.” Michelangelo When John read my last blog, he felt sad. First, for him...
Dec 22, 20234 min read
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Is It Alive? And Other Soul Stuff
In the world we everywhere find clear signs of an order in accordance with a determinate purpose, carried out with great wisdom —Immanuel...
Nov 21, 20234 min read
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Where's the Pony? Choosing Useful Mindsets and Mental Filters
The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven. John Milton, Paradise Lost Supposedly President...
Nov 17, 20235 min read
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Your Mindset is...Everything?
“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.” —Frances Hodgson Burnett, novelist and playwright Think...
Nov 14, 20235 min read
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Seeing Rightly, Taming Each Other
“I have always felt that a human being could only be saved by another human being. I am aware that we do not save each other very often....
Dec 11, 20225 min read
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