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By taking back the responsibility of our words from the Headmasters, by ceasing to live on their bounty, we step away from the “merely provisional” uses of language and toward genuine accountability. We thereby make a small promise to the future, and take a step toward giving those who come after us cleaner earth to till.
Tending the Digital Commons
hedgehogreview.com
All the forces at play within us and without seem to be centrifugal forces, pulling us apart. I remain interested in understanding the nature of these forces. The critical conversation remains important. But I’m increasingly interested in how we might find and deploy alternative ways of being in the world. What are the practices that will sustain us? Silence may be just such a practice, and we may do well to experiment with whatever possibilities are afforded to us to enter into silence and to allow silence to enter into us.
The Thing That Is Silence
The Convivial Society
When we realize our true self is nothing other than present-moment experience, we are free to love whatever is happening, regardless of whether we like it! If our partner rejects us, of course we will grieve his or her absence and do nothing for weeks but watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer in our ratty bathrobe. But we can grieve with the profound understanding that this moment of grieving is life here and now. This is it. This moment is what’s happening now. Must we give in to the hoodwinking desire that tells us to abandon this moment because it is not what we wanted?
Radically Condensed Instructions for Being Just as You Are
J Jennifer Matthews
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