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I read this comment on a YouTube video talking about austerity. The video is actually irrelevant, but the comment really struck me. “The obvious solution is to stop being poor. Go get a job and make some money. Live below your means so you can save up and become rich! And get an education so [...] There’s an old joke that asks what someone who can speak x number of languages is called, and goes through (depending on how pedantic the teller is) the various prefixes down through bilingual for someone who speaks two languages. The final question is, of course, what one would call someone who can only speak a [...] I don’t know a whole lot about it, probably barely more than a typical Anglo (and that mostly from the fiction of Tony Hillerman and David & Aimée Thurlo), but something intrigues me about the Navajo Way. It’s more than a religion, it’s a complete lifestyle that extends from the spiritual outward. The whole point [...] It isn’t very often I come out of a dream with an insight that has me going “Oh, wow.” but I did tonight. I fairly vaguely remember most of my dream, but like usual, it was like a movie that held snippets of something like my life and that at different times, I was taking [...] I don’t know exactly what got me thinking about it, but I woke up considering the idea and possible reality of heaven. To me, heaven boils down to one thing. The most basic, bedrock choice is already made. It’s the choice to live without the artificial separations we have on earth. Economic, religious, idealogical… anything [...] Accuracy is something I prize. I’ve actually found a more accurate version of the prayer-poem I posted, and not surprisingly, found that it’s recommended as a labyrinth prayer. I weave a silence upon my lips. I weave a silence into my mind. I weave a silence within my heart. I close my eyes to distractions. [...] This blog, unlike my LiveJournal, which is pretty much just mundanities, will actually be more… philosophical in tone. This will probably mean that it will be updated much less often. One thing that will go here is a journal of my thoughts and meditations from using the finger labyrinth I plan to make. As such, [...] |
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