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Connected Independence

Posted on Nov 14th, 2009 by Hal : Poet , Author and Essayist Hal

  It is wonderful to move To a new place every day. It is wonderful to flow Without ice and mud Everything my friends, Is gone with yesterday. All the words are gone. Now is... More »

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Moments of Beholding

Posted on Oct 31st, 2009 by Hal : Poet , Author and Essayist Hal

  The hour is striking so close above me, So clear and sharp, That all my senses ring with it. I feel it now: There's a power in me To grasp and give shape to... More »

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The Energy of Life

Posted on Oct 16th, 2009 by Hal : Poet , Author and Essayist Hal

     The conventional self is composed mainly of a history consisting of selected memories, and beginning from the moment of parturition. According to convention, I am not simply what I'm doing now. I am... More »

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Innate Freedom

Posted on Oct 3rd, 2009 by Hal : Poet , Author and Essayist Hal

    But the effect of society is not only to funnel fictions into our consciousness, but also to prevent the awareness of reality. . . Every society, by it own practice of living and... More »

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The Air Between the Bubbles

Posted on Sep 26th, 2009 by Hal : Poet , Author and Essayist Hal

  We are supposedly living in the same world, but who can tell the thing we popularly call a stone lying before this window is the same thing to all of us? According to the... More »

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Dipped in Bliss

Posted on Sep 19th, 2009 by Hal : Poet , Author and Essayist Hal

  No drives, no compulsions No needs, no attractions Then your affairs Are under control You are a free person.   Chuang Tzu wrote those thoughts in Chinese over 2300 years ago. The concept that... More »

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Pure and Perfect

Posted on Sep 12th, 2009 by Hal : Poet , Author and Essayist Hal

  The mind is like a crystal ball with no color of its own. It is pure and perfect as it is. But as soon as it confronts the outside world it takes on all... More »

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A Portion of Completeness

Posted on Sep 5th, 2009 by Hal : Poet , Author and Essayist Hal

  Our faith comes in moments; our vice habitual. Yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences. For this reason,... More »

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Butterflies

Posted on Aug 29th, 2009 by Hal : Poet , Author and Essayist Hal

  If nothing ever changed there would be no butterflies .   That thought has deep roots. Those roots are planted in action which is always constant. I change ever second as my consciousness blinks... More »

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Guided Acts

Posted on Aug 21st, 2009 by Hal : Poet , Author and Essayist Hal

  The diverse response and grades of significance that an object elicits can be illuminated this way: An animal may see an oddly shaped black and white object, a tribal person a rectangular flexible object... More »

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