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Dec 25 2008
If you find it difficult to be aware, then experiment with writing down every thought and feeling that arises throughout the day; write down your reactions of jealousy, envy, vanity, sensuality, the intentions behind your words, and so on. Spend...
Dec 24 2008
The European Union’s huge digital library Europeana, which crashed last month just hours after its launch, is back online. The website’s server capacity has been quadrupled to cope with demand, European Commission spokesman Martin Selmayr...
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Dec 24 2008
Historian Niall Ferguson argues in a new book that while money may be the root of all evil, it is also the source of the human race’s greatest progress. If you disagree with Professor Ferguson, you may be one of those unrepentant, doctrinaire...
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Dec 24 2008
Best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low stress, non-addictive, gender neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced with the most enjoyable traditions of religious persuasion or secular practices of your...
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Dec 24 2008
How do you balance self-acceptance vs. the drive to grow and improve yourself? On the one hand, it’s a good idea to accept yourself for who you are… faults and all, right? But on the other hand, isn’t it also a good idea to set goals and aim for...
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Dec 24 2008
Some people always think in terms of isolated concepts and straight line thought, or what, in mathematics, is called “linear” thoughts, or equations to the first power. Examples of linear philosophy would be: the universe is limitless and goes...
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Dec 24 2008
Not being anything is the beginning of freedom. So, if you are capable of feeling, of going into this, you will find, as you become aware, that you are not free, that you are bound to very many different things, and that at the same time the mind hopes...
Dec 23 2008
Here in France, it is time to party. A time when friends all crowd into a smallish room and stand around a large table overloaded with wine, cheese and sausage, while they talk, talk, talk. Such events are a strain on my misanthropic nature and my...
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Dec 23 2008
Rene-Thierry Magon de la Villehuchet, a founder of the hedge fund Access International Advisors, was found dead early Tuesday in his office in Manhattan, the French business daily La Tribune reported on its Web site, after losing as much as $1.4 billion...
Dec 23 2008
Cheney conceded during his interview with federal investigators that in drawing attention to Plame’s role in arranging her husband’s Africa trip reporters might also unmask her role as CIA officer.