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DEVELOPING PRESENCE (Another IPS)

DEVELOPING PRESENCE (Another IPS)

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Another IPS (Inner Peace Symptom):  a growing awareness that all phenomena are empty and illusory and the only meaning and mana in any situation is what the people involved bring to it.  [It’s a cool thing to realize that we humans are the arbiters of the meaning and mana in our own lives.] The search for meaning and mana is a very human thing.  It’s been going on for centuries now.  The words themselves are so nebulous that it’s hard…

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DOING VS MAKING

DOING VS MAKING

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Tobin Hart, in his book THE FOUR VIRTUES, defines “creation” as “harnessing the capacity to take action.”  Everything can “do” stuff….it’s why we’re here on the planet, apparently.  (Even rocks and dirt can “do” stuff.) What turns doing into creating is what Making is all about:  a purposeful directing of energies that brings something new into existence.