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Good and the Work Our Age
I heard a promotion for a workshop on the topic of ‘nonduality’. The gist was that word nonduality was catching fire and people were flocking to the resources and readings regarding that term. Imagine going to the average coffee shop… Continue reading
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Good and Terrible Depths
I pulled this quote from the New York Times in my morning reading. For not entirely explainable reasons a quote from the work of Friedrich Nietzsche struck me as very important for us all in this era of image. UmaSofia… Continue reading
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Good and Spirituality under Tyranny
David Brooks quotes Howard Thurman in his New York Times piece (5/10/24 How to Create a Society That Prizes Decency. The article so precisely illuminates the importance of starting your considerations for future actions or expressions from within. And that… Continue reading
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Good and Real Change
Real change can be traumatic. Change will always be work. Anyone who has ever oared a river raft has had a crash course in this thing called change. The peaceful river can put one to sleep, but in a couple… Continue reading
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Don’t light a match
In this last month, I have traveled through many of the towns in which I have lived over the course of my life thus far. In this journey I have had coffee and conversations with many old friends and delivered… Continue reading
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Goodness and Moral Dissonance
There is a frank and direct discomfort, if not pain, in any action one takes that generates moral dissonance within one’s considerations. When you cross grain what you believe to be good you will feel the ‘soul scratch’. I frequently… Continue reading
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Good and Pleasure
Is “good” pleasant? The short answer for The Good Decision discipline is “no”. “Is integrity easy” might be the more appropriate question and the answer is also more obvious: no, integrity is not easy. The Good Decision will never sell… Continue reading
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Good and Cruelty and the American Tradition
When it comes to the word good, I have long come to the conclusion that cruelty is never good. The enjoyment and mastery of cruelty in ones language and actions is a fatal flaw in the human character. As we… Continue reading
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Wretched Truth & Beautiful Language, intersect with Tragedy
Poetry can take us to places that political and analytical language cannot. Some language slips through the screens of culture, gender, religion, nation, patriotism, vengeance and justice and simply speaks the hard planked heart language of mother, father, elder, infant… Continue reading
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Good, Kind, Nice, and Nonsense
For me this project is an effort to rescue good from its relatives nice and kind. Nice is the form of manners that avoids conflict through the use of faint praise. “Nice car!” one might say to the friend who… Continue reading
“One lives a good life through making good decisions and continually going to that place in you where you find your good.”
The Next Democracy
Given the critical times we are in this Project has proposed a very short, succinct body of language to re-introduce the idea of democracy to the 21st Century. We no longer can afford to compete for points on the scale of mutual hatred. We must find language that addresses the critical stress point of democracy in our world today. Click below, read, comment and do a pre-vote if you see something to which you can commit.
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