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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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Eclipse

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

  Sheba's Gifts to Solomon   Queen Sheba loads forty mules with gold bricks as gifts for Solomon. When her envoy and his party reach the wide plain leading to Solomon's palace they see the... More »

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