Is there anything more dangerous
than dissatisfied and irresponsible gods
who don't know what they want?
--Harari in Sapiens, the very last sentence

“Everything is interconnected. Gratitude improves sleep. Sleep reduces pain. Reduced pain improves your mood. Improved mood reduces anxiety, which improves focus and planning. Focus and planning help with decision making. Decision making further reduces anxiety and improves enjoyment. Enjoyment gives you more to be grateful for, which keeps that ( Read more... )

 It is man's pretense that because he has choice, he is free.
--Krishnamurti

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There is no more miserable human being
than one in whom nothing is habitual
except indecision.
--Williams James

Last night while at a Sierra Club meeting involving the effort to hasten decommission of the Columbia Generating Station (nuke at Hanford), I started having all manner of thoughts about my book on homeopathy. I brainstormed my intro and some chapter ideas on the same page where I'd taken a few notes about newly understood seismic activity in the ( Read more... )

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More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads.
One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness,
the other total extinction.
Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
--Woody Allen

When the situation is hopeless,
there's nothing to worry about.
--Edward Abbey

Lately I keep hearing people talk about what they "resonate with". It is how people choose their spiritual paths. "The Lakota (path) is the one I find I resonate best with." And it is how many in complementary medicine decide which modalities to practice. An intelligent and lovely young woman "resonates" with UNDA numbers and believes that ( Read more... )

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