New Year 2006

02 January 2006 |permalink | email article

Political pundits make their predictions; people of good faith agree or disagree; the search for justice, peace and happiness remains unrequited. Consider the value of mindfulness in a turbulent world:

And now let us believe in the long year that is given to us, new, untouched, full of things that have never been.

óThe poet Rainer Maria Rilke

To return to the present is to be in contact with life. Life can be found only in the present moment, because ëthe past no longer isí and ëthe future has not yet come.í

óThe Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh

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Life and Death

01 January 2006 |permalink | email article

A somber W. continues to liberate the “way forward” in Iraq, apparently still believing a military solution in Baghdad will snatch victory from defeat despite the grim conditions on the ground.

But the real news, as 2006 ended,… read full story

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