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Metaphorically, she has to find herself and her true spiritual center. Her journey back home—or back to that essential center place within—is the mythical journey that we all take in life, whether we’re aware of it or not. It’s about the quest for meaning, a sense of purpose, love, and connection. Life is about finding our way to this place and living it energetically on and off the courts, no matter what “storms” may happen.
The Mindful Athlete
George Mumford and Phil Jackson
Seoul fell Wednesday, and the ROK defenders retreated to the Han River. In Long Island’s Stockholm Restaurant that noon, three unlikely diplomats—Trygve Lie, Jacob Malik, and Ernest Gross—met to keep a long-standing luncheon date. Naturally they talked about the war; there was nothing else to talk about. Malik held that Sunday’s Security Council resolution was “illegal” because no Russian delegate had been present and Red China had not been admitted. While Gross waited tensely, Lie met his responsibilities as a scrupulous Secretary General. Forget about Sunday, he advised Malik; come to this afternoon’s Council meeting and hear the new American resolution. “Won’t you join us?” he asked. “The interests of your country would seem to me to call for your presence.” But the Russian shook his head. He said vehemently, “No, I will not go there.” Outside, Gross mopped his brow. He said to Lie, “Think what would have happened if he had accepted your invitation.” What would have happened would have been a Soviet veto of the new U.S. move and then, in all probability, American intervention in Korea unsupported by the U.N.—in short, an earlier Vietnam.
The Glory and the Dream
William Manchester
4. Where do you repeatedly undermine yourself, create harmful replications, produce the same old, same old? Where do you flee from your best, riskest self? None of us begin the day thinking, “Well, today I shall do the same stupid things I have been doing for decades, but it will all turn out better.” Yet, everyday, the complexes, those historically charged energy cluster, operate in their autonomous way, and the same old, same old surfaces. The complexes take over the ego, flood it with their historic scripts, and the familiar, predetermined choices result, even as we believe ourselves free and conscious in any given moment. ~ Why Do Good People Do Bad Things, p. 220
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Logan Jones
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