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Our “happy” thoughts may be crude or refined, but happy thoughts evolve over a lifetime. In an addictive world like ours, we may like our beer or sex or whatever, but at some point the thought of beer and sex is better than the beer and sex itself. Then weContinue Reading

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When I was nineteen years old I bought myself a copy of the Tao Te Ching. I carried it with me in my backpack, hitch-hiking around the country. I read in it but little. Over the years, moving here and there — Washington DC, Austin, DC, Flagstaff, DC, Boulder, Dallas,Continue Reading

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The Tao Te Ching
 is full of kings
 who left realms vast behind,
Like atoms who
 with tiny qualms
 from molecules unbind.

 — Qualiens