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What Is It to Be Inwardly Free?
I don’t know. I can say that for at least 34 years I have struggled with that. Dr. Neil Friedman started my search when he assigned Krishnamurti’s The Flight of the Eagle in his social work class. I recall how I found that book so dense with meaning, so conceptual that I felt for a while as if I was reading Plato as a freshman. Supremely intellectual. I underlined passages as if a freshman; I tried to access the author’s mind and mentation. It was a brilliant work. I went to other works of his, Think on These Things and…
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Pre-Nevada Associations and Other Mental Flossing
I wonder if my son will break through to himself as he struggles to make his way in this world. Striving to find himself artistically, he is aggravated by a job that has a woman medusa as a supervisor. My fantasies and hopes for him are mine alone, for he has to define himself in this world. Come to think of it, other than nature which as a species we have assaulted since our Darwinian birth, there is not much to this earth, other than the few million good people on it. …Since we all return to an inorganic state, while…
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NEVADA BOUND: A PARTING SALVO
I have been involved within the last two weeks with selling Jane’s home, renting mine, garage sales, and collecting cartons from local stores — in Green Valley they break down the cartons within the store itself with a press. In my hey day we walked behind the drug store and picked from the crop. Now I need go to a package store or Office Max. Of course, I am “weeding” out papers and books that are a kind of human lint. I get upset when I see Rochelle’s death certificate and quickly return it to the envelope; I see birthday…
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Fragment from a Story that is not Working Out
I raise my hand in cheder and ask the teacher: “Why are jews good at running?” “Because we are excellent prey and what good is prey if it does not give the hunter a good chase for his money?” “Rabbi, people tell me I am a good student. Why have we been chosen to be such good runners when all the world and all the countries have people who can run as well as we?” “I could sit down on the steps of this very school and explain to you for hours all the whys for your question. You know,…