A Few Things I’ve Written…
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Ever Wondered What It’s Like To Be a Dog?
Have you ever wondered what it’s like to be a dog? Obviously, you wouldn’t be thinking in English. You would probably have a different experience of smell, time, direction. You would view humans in a way that I would assume is fundamentally different from how we view one another. But there would still be an…
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Courage and Fearlessness
I was walking today through the woods when I started to think about fear and courage. I was wondering why some people are more courageous than others, why something that seems totally neutral to one person might raise enormous anxiety in someone else, why we rise above our fear and take action in one circumstance,…
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Unlimited Creativity
In ancient Greece, there was a belief in the Muses, the idea that creative inspiration comes from somewhere outside of ourselves. We don’t really think in those terms nowadays, and many people don’t believe in a personified God who literally inspires us. But taking personal credit for our creations is a trap. Our ego is…
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Fear, decisions, and the truth about our experience
There was an article I read the other day on the subject of ‘feelings.’ This article told the story of a man who had a type of brain injury that resulted in his being disconnected from emotion. He was like a Vulcan, totally reasonable and objective. The trouble was, he couldn’t make any decisions. Not…
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