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Athletics: The New Asceticism - Reflection #3

Written by:
Michael D. May
Moving Out of My Mind The athlete in championship form has a quiet place within herself. There is a center that must be known and held. Unless this center is found, the turmoil will destroy us. * - Joseph Campbell I am moving. Moving can be a traumatic act. Apart from the advertising creations of […]
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Radical Pedagogy

Written by:
Gene Marshall
Our job as prophets of Reality, as teachers of religion and ethics, as aware persons of our profound humanness is to tell the truth. We just tell the truth as we see it; the truth we genuinely believe has been shown to us by that Final Reality that baffles us as it also informs us. […]
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Athletics: The New Asceticism - Reflection #2

Written by:
Michael D. May
The Danger Zone The Comfort Zone Be always restless, unsatisfied, unconforming. Whenever a habit becomes convenient, smash it! The greatest sin of all is satisfaction. * - Nikos Kazantzakis Is it true that The meaning of life is consumption Are we to believe that at the end of life The one with the most toys […]
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Athletics: The New Asceticism

Written by:
Michael D. May
The Connecting Point Within I understand sport this way. It needs strategy; it needs suffering. * - Rafael Nadal How do I connect most personally with Ultimate Reality Where do I connect most personally with Ultimate Reality Human beings have been exploring this question of personal connection to The-All-That-Is since we first crawled out of […]
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Realistic Living, The Last Resort

Written by:
Gene Marshall
Having tried every other way to live, human beings sometimes become open to the realistic living of their real lives. Most of us, perhaps all of us, have had to discover for ourselves the dead ends of trying to live out our many unrealistic self-fabrications of reality. As a last resort we become open to […]
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One Second to Choose - The Freedom of No Choice

Written by:
S?ren Kierkegaard
A human being is Flow. But what is Flow Flow is the self. But what is the self The self is a relation that relates itself to itself or is the relations relating itself to itself in the relation; the self is not the relation but is the relations relating itself to itself. A human […]
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Story and History

Written by:
Michael D. May
So tell me the story of. What is a story and what is history Does it matter that we understand the difference I am of the perspective that it is important to distinguish one from the other. Jesus was likely an impoverished, illiterate Jewish peasant unable to read or write. Jesus was likely born in […]
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The Death of the Death of God

Written by:
Gene Marshall
If The Death of God meansanythingatall, it means the death of every literalized human-like construction presumed to exist in some universe next door. No human has experienced a universe next door. This is a myth, a human construction used to assist humans to talk about experiences they have had and still have of the ONE. […]
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Quantum Mechanics and Interior Freedom

Written by:
Michael D. May
We all have a human mind, even me! When we exercise the human mind in the practice of understanding and manipulating physical reality, time, and space we call this practice science. Throughout human history, we have practiced science and this is a good thing to do. Sometimes we humans have practiced good science and sometimes […]
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Which Way is Within

Written by:
Michael D. May
I give myself up to whatever the moment brings. I know I am going to die, and I have nothing left to hold on to: no illusions in my mind, no resistances in my body. I do not think about my actions; they flow from the core of my being. I hold nothing back from […]
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