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		<title>Wu-wei @ 12% &#8211; Middle View</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 16:10:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Baby View &#124; The Buddha View &#124; The Adult View ( The Middle Path )]]></description>
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		<title>Alan Watts on Nothingness</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Feb 2011 18:49:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sleep, passivity, rest &#8212; these are all things which are neglected due to a fear of Nothingness. Nothing is more fertile than Emptiness. It&#8217;s not &#8216;You can&#8217;t have Something for Nothing&#8217;, it&#8217;s &#8216;You can&#8217;t have Something without Nothing&#8217;. That which is void is precisely Form. And that which is form is precisely Void.]]></description>
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		<title>Wu-Wei @ 8%</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/eight-percent-wu-wei/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Apr 2010 10:06:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.&#8221; &#8211; Loren Eisley Water is a metaphor for both power and humility, bending around obstacles, seeking the path of least resistance. Water always seeks to lower itself below all else, flowing downhill to appease gravity. It this way it gains power from humility. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wu-Wei @ 5%</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/five-percent-wu-wei/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:14:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thrivenotes.com/?p=2959</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Way that can be experienced is not true; The world that can be constructed is not real. The Way manifests all that happens and may happen; The world represents all that exists and may exist. To experience without abstraction is to sense the world; To experience with abstraction is to know the world. These [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wu-Wei @ 4%</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/four-percent-wu-wei/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 16:33:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thrivenotes.com/?p=2865</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Without going out of your door, you can know the ways of the world. Without peeping through your window, you can see the Way of Heaven. The farther you go, the less you know. Thus, the Sage knows without traveling, sees without looking, and achieves without struggle. — Lao Tse]]></description>
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		<title>Benjamin F. &amp; Siddhārtha G.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 14:43:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[( Individually ) If you would not be forgotten, As soon as you are dead and rotten, Either write things worthy reading, Or do things worth the writing. ( Equitably ) The constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. ~ Benjamin Franklin ~ ( Absolutely ) He [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Four Laws of Robotics</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/the-four-laws-of-robotics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 18:57:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With increasingly subtle moves, the players in Asimov&#8217;s epic Foundation and Earth are confronted with the daunting decision of whether to initiate an all-encompassing ethical framework, one which just might direct humanity into an acceptable future. The agents of change go unnamed for those who have yet to read it. Dr. Isaac Asimov, in his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shinigami Philosophy</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/shinigami/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Dec 2009 20:17:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[More on the Zampakuto Rebellion as it is unfolding.]]></description>
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		<title>Be Happiness Itself</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/be-happiness-itself/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:55:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thrivenotes.com/?p=2314</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Find out for yourself what should go in the blank. Study up on your katakana da ze!]]></description>
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		<title>This Is About the Right Width</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/right-width/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 00:43:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thrivenotes.com/?p=2209</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a deeper level of introspection that is needed for to know oneself, is to know all others and to know oneself completely is to know all others completely too. This space inside is full of willpower and life and it directs your soul-power and influence your soul-power known by many other names, truth belongs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Secret Passages, Waking Life</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/secret-passages-waking-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:48:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my view one of the most freeing and individual human-centered takes on the development and potential of the mind was this dialogue from the movie Waking Life: The main character is what you might call &#8220;the mind&#8221;. It&#8217;s mastery, it&#8217;s capacity to represent. Throughout history, attempts have been made&#8230; to contain those experiences which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Absurd Thrives</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 11:02:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thrivenotes.com/?p=1798</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;In spite of or in defiance of the whole of existence he wills to be himself with it, to take it along, almost defying his torment. For to hope in the possibility of help, not to speak of help by virtue of the absurd, that for God all things are possible — no, that he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U a Fan of Memetics?</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/toxic-ideas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 11:47:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thrivenotes.com/?p=1726</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[1. Which idea is more toxic? A. We should inoculate ourselves against the most toxic ideas. B. It&#8217;s all subjective; we cannot objectively classify ideas. 2. Which belief would be most convenient were you to believe in it? A. Chaos and physical laws rule my life. B. God and fate rule my life. 3. Which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s the past-tense of flow again?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:59:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Herein lie future-wise explanations for why even though nothing I type here is reflected back into my eyes, my fingers still move letters on up to the blanketed electrical opulent sky. And I don&#8217;t have a clue why this has to be written except that it helps me to fill in the space between me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Neglect to Direct When You Act</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/dont-neglect-to-direct/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 04:57:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happiness is a process that you continue to change, in fact, you never use the same process twice. All processes are defined by brain context, which is defined by environmental and metacognitive context. But is this all predefined by something beyond physical determinism? That would be, in a word, mind. Mind determines happiness in relation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Were I This Blank</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/were-i-this-blank/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 04:22:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[☯: I used to be a taoist but couldn&#8217;t feel in black and white ✴: I used to be a buddhist but symbols labeled me at night ☆: I used to be a child but biology chose me not to rest ♥: I used to be a somebody but then of just-about-anyone I thought the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Words of Unsung Songs</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/words-based-on-songs-never-sung/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 06:07:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[unrecognized labor, it&#8217;s like diplomacy failing to reconcile greedy ego speed and compassion filled wishing well deeds, or one too many attempts at subtlety wrapped comically big in philosophical arrangements, tenacious. wishing it would all just coalesce and acquiesce in other words, gel jam, god damn, it must be done just work together, recognize the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Examined Life</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/the-examined-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:46:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Cornel West on the importance of philosophy and the examined life. He says so much in every sentence, I had to watch it at least three times to take it all in. We are being towards death. We have desire in the face of death. We face dogmatism and attempt dialogue within a cultural [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kierkegaard Quotes: Either/Or</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2009 21:46:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Knowledge of the truth I may perhaps have attained to; happiness, certainly not. What shall I do? Accomplish something in the world, men tell me. Shall I then publish my grief to the world, contribute one more proof for the wretchedness and misery of existence, perhaps discover a new flaw in human life, hitherto unnoticed? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just Ghosts</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 08:40:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[JUST GHOSTS To define Reality, we must define Experience, yet we must also define: the Experiencer, Consciousness, Life, the Universe, etc. WHAT IS REAL? In one model of the Universe, 99.999% of all Matter is empty. (Think hydrogen.) A proton&#8217;s mass is mostly Energy. (Look quantum.) Normal Matter fills *only 5%* of the known space [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Old Man, Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:37:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Old man time just keeps on running. You can try to run with him. You can try to run ahead of him, but you&#8217;ll almost definitely trip. You may lag behind him, but he&#8217;s got a chain on your leg, and he&#8217;s unstoppable, so you&#8217;re gonna get dragged through the dirt, and get all bruised [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Habitual Vision of Greatness</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 08:51:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reject the temptations of success, throw back the status symbols, says Dr. West. It takes courage to think for oneself, but is necessary for one&#8217;s own freedom and happiness. Bravery is necessary for greatness, and this is what we should strive for. He said it before, the current generation will have to retrain their minds [...]]]></description>
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