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- Julian Maddock
- Stockwell, London, United Kingdom
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Opinion - 21 April 2018 - Andrew Lightbown Theore0 Speaking of being senior The theopolitics of disassociation Gilo Surviving Church Society for the Protection of Bishops - Gilo’s r...18 hours ago
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Saturday Brunch, April 21, 2018 - Hello, friends, and welcome to the weekend. Ready for some brunch? We’ve got some silly stuff, some serious stuff, some sporty stuff. Let’s start with a pu...1 day ago
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Haiku Productivity: The Power of Limits to Increase Our Focus - By Leo Babauta A decade ago, I wrote about “Haiku Productivity” and how limits can make us more productive, more focused, and better able to prioritize and...1 day ago
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Suffering with the Prosperity Gospel: A Review of Everything Happens for a Reason - [image: Article Feature Image] Jason Byassee reviews Kate Bowler’s *Everything Happens for a Reason*, a book he says takes on evil from the inside—and laughs.2 days ago
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Farewell - We never want to let go of them, those we love. How could it be any different than that? We loved them, hold them still in the glimpsed silences between...1 week ago
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Running After Something You Already Have - A Dream About Montreat, Evelyn Underhill, and Learning to Let Go. I had a dream last night — about one of my favorite retreat centers, and one of my favori...1 week ago
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How to Not Take Things So Personally: 6 Helpful Habits - “Nobody can hurt me without my permission.” Mahatma Gandhi “Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned ...1 week ago
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Now available from DLT UK - Silence: A User's Guide vol 2 is now available directly from Darton Longman Todd UK. Enjoy!1 month ago
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Is God hidden? A letter to a friend - A reader in the UK sent me an email recently asking among other things “why God keeps himself hidden from the world?” These were my thoughts in response: W...3 months ago
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A Soundtrack for Hope: A Spotify Playlist for AWAITING THE KING - I'm not sure when it started, but in most of my books I like to note the "soundtrack" that accompanied their production--what I was listening to while writ...5 months ago
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The Quality of Assurance is very strained (indeed) - One of my colleagues is a leading scholar of the work an English poet upon whom he has written some major studies. Partly as a result of a chance personal ...10 months ago
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The Marriage of Souls - *Why we now need a renewed conjugal theology* Equality is politically effective. Its message is immediate and, in a mature democracy, one that most under...1 year ago
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The End of an Era - I started this blog on February 4, 2005; I'm closing it up today, May 8, 2016. The posts here will live on, but all future writing will happen at the new b...1 year ago
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A Routine Call - Whenever I was called to a job involving someone armed with a firearm, machete, or other weapon of lethal force, I used to be fairly relaxed. "Are you w...2 years ago
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A good book... - ... by Pope Francis, about the mercy of God - something we've heard him speak of many times. Perhaps a help for exercitants to come to that 'cry of wonder'...3 years ago
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To Have Peace With The World, First, You Must Have Peace With Yourself - Photo of the day for 11th October 143 years ago
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The New PostSecret Book - See PostSecret videos, discover new PostSecret links, pre-order the new PostSecret book. Visit '*The World of PostSecret*'.3 years ago
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Nine Points Magazine: A Must Read For Enneagram Enthusiasts - Dear Readers, I am rarely posting here on the blog site since I am now writing for Nine Points Magazine, the magazine for the International Enneagram Ass...4 years ago
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FreeNAS 8.3.1-RELEASE-p1 is available - Josh Paetzel has announced FreeNAS 8.3.1-RELEASE-p1: FreeNAS 8.3.1-RELEASE-p1 made it's way to SF Friday of last week. It fixes a couple of small issues ...5 years ago
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Third Sunday of Lent, 3 March 2013 - "Everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and you that have no money , come, buy and eat!" Once upon a time there was an ocean. It was so deep that its d...5 years ago
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Our Blog Has Now Moved........ - We've moved our blog to our new website. Check out and subscribe to the feed here: http://www.theschooloflife.com/blog/ Thanks for following!5 years ago
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James K.A. Smith @ GoodReads - Well, I've been horribly delinquent over here at "What I'm Reading." I have a long shelf of books above my desk here that I've been meaning to blog about, ...7 years ago
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The good man Morton and the scoundrel Cole - For technical reasons to do with Blogger not supporting my kind of website any more, my blog is migrating to my Typepad pages. Read the first one here: The...7 years ago
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Michael Jackson - Michael Jackson is irreplaceable there is no one like him he tried to be the best and became the greatest entertainers of all time we have seen other enter...8 years ago
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- Impact of God
Oh souls created for his greatness and summoned to it - what are you doing?!
- Narcissus and Goldmund
- It is not up to you to think about whether God hears your prayers, or whether the God you may imagine even exists. Nor is it up to you to think about whether our efforts are childish. In comparison with the One to whom our prayers are addressed, all our actions are childish. ... While one is singing one does not think about whether or not the singing is useful. One simply sings. You must pray like that too.
- Into the Silent Land
- “The specific focus [is] the practical struggle many of us face when trying to be silent — the inner chaos going on inside our heads, like some wild cocktail party of which we find ourselves the embarrassed host. ... [T]he foundational assumption [is] that union with God is not something we are trying to acquire; God is already the ground of our being.”
- “The bottom line is this: minimise time given over to chasing thoughts, dramatising them in grand videos, and believing these videos to be your identity. Otherwise life will pass you by.”
- Matter
- “We have found that the underdisciplined child will bump up against life eventually and learn their lessons that way - albeit all the harder for their parents’ earlier lack of courage and concern. The overdisciplined child lives all its life in a self-made cage, or bursts from it so wild and profligate with untutored energy they harm all about them, and always themselves. We prefer to underdiscipline, reckoning it better in the long drift, though it may seem harsher at the time.”
- The Maytrees
The Maytrees were young long ago. They lived on what still seems antiquity's very surface.
Listening
- Four Last Songs
- Und die Seele unbewacht
Will in freien Flügen schweben,
Um im Zauberkreis der Nacht
Tief und tausendfach zu leben.
- Triste Plaisir
- String Quintet
Films seen recently
- Babel
If You Want to be Understood...Listen
- Deception
It's intimacy without intricacy.
- Sex in the City
The good ones screw you, the bad ones screw you, and the rest don't know how to screw you.
- Little Miss Sunshine
There's two kinds of people in this world, there's winners and there's losers. Okay, you know what the difference is? Winners don't give up.
- The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
You get treated like a dumb animal long enough, that's what you become. You may find Narnia a more savage place than you remember.
- Kung Fu Panda
There is no secret ingredient ...
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- “You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.”
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- On Religion
- When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible be found in us.
- For the Time Being
- The Primal Wound
It is [the] wounded sense of self, [the] sense of emptiness and isolation, which underlies the violence, addiction and greed disrupting our live.
Part of the tremendous power of addictions is that they offer ways of avoiding the threat of nonbeing.
- The Miracle of Mindfulness
- The Cloud of Unknowing
- “Lift your heart up to the Lord, with a gentle stirring of love desiring him for his own sake and not for his gifts.”
- Lack and Transcendence: The Problem of Death and Life in Psychotherapy, Existentialism, and Buddhism
- Silence and Honey Cakes
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- The Beatles [White Album]
- I look at you all see the love there that's sleeping,
While my guitar gently weeps
- Naturally
- After midnight, we're going to let it all hang out
- Furious Angels
- Cause love, like an invisible bullet has shot me down and I'm bleeding
- Blood on the Tracks
- Time is a jet plane, it moves too fast
- Cape Town Flowers
- Astral Weeks
- If I ventured in the slipstream,
Between the viaducts of your dream
- The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle
- Sparks fly on E Street when the boy prophets walk it handsome and hot
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While My Guitar Gently Weeps
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2 comments:
is it buy one get one free?
As an American, can I trade you a Cheney or a Wolfowitz for one of your Tories? Anyway, I read through your blog. Wow! I would love to be able to add you to a friends list, if I could, because your thoughts are similar to mine, even though your posts are much clearer and more succinct than mine. Too much schooling . . .
Anyway, just wanted to let you know I think your blog is awsome and I WILL be back.
Geoffrey Kruse-Safford
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