This morning we opened A Guide to the I Ching by Carole Anthony at random and found this…
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Advice for Someone Who is Juggling Her Life
Like most people, we often feel like we are juggling way too many things in our life. Although we try to simplify, make choices, edit out the unnecessary, we have not yet mastered the equilibrium of just enough. How startling then to find A Poem for Someone Who is Juggling Her Life and its affirmation of a very counter-intuitive option…
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Things You Can Control, with Caveats + Brian Eno
There is SO much beyond our control these days, that is was a relief to a list of things we CAN control. Then we thought about the idea of trying to control things, which can tighten things up too much, add stress and an impossible ideal. Musician Brian Eno’s words inspired a better way to view it.
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The Best Plan Might Be NOT Having One
So much of what I see on the web are strategies for planning and controlling your life, it was a huge relief to read Kottke’s recent piece about how it can be better NOT to have goals.
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Peace Practice: Viewing the Glass as ‘Already Broken’
At Zen Habits recently, Leo Babauta shows ways to apply a compelling daily practice from Achaan Chah, the Thai meditation master, described by Mark Epstein in Thoughts Without A Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective:
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