The Hollow Lives of Our Holodecks
Sunday, May 18th, 2008 Posted in Culture, Personal Growth, Psychology, Society | 1 Comment »We are the Hollow Men, We are the stuffed men, Leaning together, Headpiece filled with straw. Alas! Our dried voices, when We whisper together Are quiet and meaningless As wind in dry grass Or rats' feet over broken glass In our dry cellar Shape without form, shade without colour, Paralysed force, ...
Just be content with what we have?
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 Posted in Culture, Personal Growth, Psychology | No Comments »Yesterday a friend and reader of this blog made the following comment in response to my post about Love: "I take it you aren't a fan of the old saying 'true happiness means learning to be happy with what you already ...
On Love and Romance, and the Most Important Things In Life
Monday, May 12th, 2008 Posted in Personal Growth, Psychology | No Comments »Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star ...
Systematizing and Losing Humanity
Friday, October 5th, 2007 Posted in Personal Growth, Psychology | 1 Comment »M. Scott Peck, in his book The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace discusses the stages of community as being 1) Pseudocommunity 2) Chaos 3) Emptiness and 4) Community. The transition from Pseudocommunity to Chaos is inevitable whenever differences ...
Book Reviews: The Four Agreements and The Mastery of Love
Sunday, July 22nd, 2007 Posted in Book Review, Personal Growth, Religion | 1 Comment »I will blog more about the Two Party System and the need for election modernization tomorrow, but today I would like to do a brief review of a couple books I have read recently. The books are familiar to ...
The Possibilities of Life
Tuesday, July 10th, 2007 Posted in Personal Growth | 2 Comments »"Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters." -Genesis 1:2At the beginning of every endeavor, and at the beginning of every new stage ...
Pursuing One’s Personal Legend
Sunday, July 1st, 2007 Posted in Personal Growth, Psychology | 1 Comment »For those of you who have read The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo, you will recognize the reference to the title of this blog. The main character in this wonderful work of literature is found reading attempting to read a ...
Bless Those Who Curse You
Thursday, August 10th, 2006 Posted in Personal Growth | No Comments »I'm eating breakfast at an out of town hotel and drinking my morning coffee before I hop on a plane back to Dallas. This week has been an enormous lesson in "bless those who curse you." ...
Manipulating People
Wednesday, August 9th, 2006 Posted in Personal Growth | No Comments »I usually blog sporatically and when I have sat down and given enough thought to write a lengthy post. I will most assuredly continue my long posts, but it is my hope to intersperse them with ...
A Life of Riddles & Rhymes
Wednesday, July 12th, 2006 Posted in Personal Growth | No Comments »by Skinner G. LayneWhen I look outside of my windowI see no grass or trees,I see blades of honeyAnd flowers made out of bees.I look at the roads of pepperAnd doors with candy sealsWhile people go driving aroundTheir horses that ...