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how we change
From one perspective, it’s not who we are, but how we change. Who we are at any given time is a factor of how we’ve changed since our birth. If we look back at ourselves from years ago, its likely clear we’ve changed significantly. The world is always changing, and so are we. So, if…
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marathon 2
Sometimes it’s just not your day. I came into this race thinking I was stronger than last year, having put more miles in then before. Sure, I had only done a 14er as my longest run leading up to it, but I did a lot more 8 and 10 milers than before. When I hit…
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messenger pigeon
We’re back! The past two months, I’ve felt in question as to where I’m going and what I should work on in my spirituality and life longings. Wanting to make progress, I would tell myself that I needed to get back into meditation, to go deeper in meditation to find this new direction that I…
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happy new year!
Similar to Christmas, the new year is a rebirth, a new beginning, to start anew in synchronicity with the seasons of our earth. We can leave previous suffering behind and welcome new kinds of suffering, as well as new pleasures and experiences. In the eternal now, nothing is required to stay with us. We could…
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marathon
Off to a strong start. Taking it easy, but it wasn’t too hard to keep it under an 8 minute pace. Dreaming of a 3:25 finish, I was on my way. Completely unwinded, I just needed to maintain and I’d have a spectacular finish for my first ever marathon. All was well, and I was…
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everything and nothing
We are everything, and we are nothing. Incredible, really. This always struck me as inspiring, the idea that the entire universe was within us. And of course the humbling part of also being nothing, like the insignificant flesh and bones that we are, tiny in the grand scheme of the universe. But recently, something came…
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intentional mistakes
In life, we make mistakes. In terms of what we should have done, we might think, “Ah, I should have done this, to not make the mistake.” But actually what it is, is that we were supposed to make that mistake, and learn from it. Because when it really counts is the next time we…
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relax and conquer
My thinking sometimes is that people around me should be working on something. This leads me to think, what should I be working on that I don’t realize I should be working on? I’ve been trying to find that answer, aside from my best guesses of meditation, hard work, and physical training, self observation, prayer,…
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piles
When we clean our home, we may have piles of clutter that form from our day to day lives. So, we take those piles and move each item back to its original location. After cleaning, we are pleased at the look of our place, but eventually everything becomes a cluttered mess again. These clutter piles…
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barrel
Hurricane Franklin, four feet @ thirteen seconds. One and a half times overhead and clean. Fast forward to my last wave.. looks a bit smaller on the takeoff compared to the other bombs that peaked in one spot. It was a long wall, tapering nicely and seeming stable, free of peaks. Dropped in and fired…