One of the lovely things about being a human is that we are called in each moment to bring ourselves to birth.
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Part of the difficulty of our times is that we have reduced the magnificent adventure of being a human being to endless, wearisome projects of self-improvement and self-analysis according to the flattest and most boring maps that could be made
As you may know, Dean is in need of a heart transplant.
Over the past 10 or 15 years, Dean has lived with a degenerative heart condition--congestive heart failure due to idiopathic hypotropic cardiomyopathy. After periods of more-or-less remission, in which his heart was stabilized and improved with the help of medications, the function of his heart has worsened. Now, radically.
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a video by D.J. Dolack of the recent benefit reading for dean Young at the National Arts Club in Manhattan.
Readers include Robert N. Casper, Joe Di Prisco, Matthea Harvey, Edward Hirsch, Mary Karr, Matthew Rohrer, Gerald Stern and Dara Wier.
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...and Dean Young on the telephone.
To make an online donation, please visit Dean Young's pageat the National Foundation for Transplants.
Dionysius the Areopagite called Pseudo - to differentiate him from the Dionysius mentioned by Paul in Acts. He lived in the 6th Century and has had a profound impact on Christian mystics.
Housed in the Quiet...
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I am grateful for the Quiet in this House
that I dwell in...
Immersing me in the Quiet within;
the deep Stillness, with only the whir of the ceiling fan
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questions
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.You want somehow or other to maintain that the world is real. What is the
standard of reality? That alone is real which exists by itself, which
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Albert Einstein - Everything is determined
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"Everything is determined by forces beyond our control.
Everything is determined, for the insect as for the star.
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Ivan M. Granger – First dawn
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First dawn by Ivan M. Granger First dawn. Even the birds in the tallest
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I had a dream recently where Sophia (in her form as a Western yidam/
dakini) appeared and showed me a circle. It emerged in the space between
she and I, b...
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I know. I know. The last post appeared over a year ago. And the post before
that was . . . a year before that. Now it's obvious: this blog has run its
cour...
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Dear Mr. Blue,
I’m a single 51-year-old who’s been enjoying the outdoorsy life in Denver
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