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Oneness

What Albert Einstein and the 14th Dalai Lama Have In Common

Two quotes. The first from Einstein, the second from the Dalai Lama. A human being is part of the whole called by us “universe,” a part limited in time and space. We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a [...]

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Edward O. Wilson wrote. . .

It seems that whenever people are given a free choice, they move to open, tree-studded land on prominences overlooking water.

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Notes Toward a New Rhetoric – Francis Christensen – Quote

The end is to enhance life–to give the self (the soul) body by wedding it to the world, to give the world life by wedding it to the self. Or, more simply, to teach to see, for that, as Conrad maintained, is everything.

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What is Environmental Breath and How Does It Help Creativity?

Click here for more information on Wellness and Writing Retreats in Italy Imagine that it is early morning in late summer and you are standing out on a beach watching the sunrise. The wind is calm and there is only the distant sound of slowly-crashing waves. Such a scene is archetypally serene and tranquil. What [...]

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Brilliant Opinion of Creative Flourishing – Csikszentmihalyi’s ‘Creativity’

Here is an excerpt from Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention: … it must be recognized that without previous models and the support of the city, Brunelleschi and Ghiberti could not have done what they did. And that with the favorable conjunction of field and domain, if these two artists had not [...]

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Solastalgia and the Ecological Unconscious

Beautifully-written article in the NY Times on the Ecological Unconscious. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/magazine/31ecopsych-t.html

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Coming to a Feeling of Oneness in Artistic Creation

The world loves to produce. We all love to build things. On Process Creation happens in those instants when you have everything at stake and you risk it all.  After creation, something else begins. Something to be regarded, experienced–an object. Something external with its own life and consequences. Maybe there are three steps to creative [...]

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