that's life

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Being flawsome is not just making peace with your flaws; it’s knowing that without them, you would not be you. It goes beyond surrendering to your flaws; it means owning them, understanding them and knowing that admitting them gives you your power. I

Dumbo Feather

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The Great Way is not difficult If you are easy in your preferences. When grasping and repelling are both absent Everything becomes clear and undisguised. In the slightest resistance, however Heaven and earth are set infinitely apart. The Way is perfe

New Philosopher

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“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one.” Voltaire “If you don’t like the weather, wait a minute.” Anonymous “That’s the thing about life: you can do what you do but in the end, some things remain stubbornly outside your c

New Philosopher

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Consider a few of the things I did during the 24 hours before beginning to write this article. I watched an hour-long episode of a TV drama my friends had recommended, long after it became clear it wasn’t one for me. I spent twenty minutes replying b

Architecture NZ

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Richard Francis-Jones ORO Editions, 2022 Melancholy wouldn’t be most people’s pick for the driving emotion of the architect. Egotistical self-belief might more likely come to mind. But, in his collection of essays, Truth and Lies in Architecture, acc

PEARL

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Observing people today, one could divide them into two groups. Firstly, those who are completely numbed, paralysed or rigid in the swinging of their spirit and can only think in traditional ways. These are on a downward trajectory, of which they rema

Creative Nonfiction

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FROM ISSUE #52: TELLING STORIES THAT MATTER GUTKIND: You are two different people—a physician and, also, a writer. I’m wondering if you had a difficult time balancing those perspectives. FINK: I think there can be advantages and disadvantages of havi

The Guardian

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Jonathan Rauch is among America’s more thoughtful and rigorously honest public intellectuals. In his new book, he addresses the rise of disinformation and its pernicious effects on democratic culture. Through an analogy to the US constitution, he pos

Chicago Tribune

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If someone queried you about truths and values that you hold to be self-evident, would you and your neighbors see eye to eye? That's the question "The American Question" (produced by Guy Seemann and directed by James Kicklighter) is intended to answe

The Atlantic

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Facts Man is less about truth than raising questions. Why can’t Facts Man talk about certain issues in exactly the way he wants to?

PEARL

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In the course of each day everyone has to do many things so that his own life and also the lives of those with whom he lives or works are properly under control and are running as smoothly as possible. There is so much disharmony on earth today, bein

Mindful

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The email seems to offer a solution to a problem you weren’t sure you had but that you’d heard of: Spy Wiper has found a long list of malware, spyware, and other threats on your computer, but if you call the toll-free phone number, a technician—who h

ArtAsiaPacific

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WANG TUO “Madness fascinates because it is knowledge,” observes Michel Foucault in Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason (1961). In his taxonomy of European sociocultural, juridical, and medical attitudes to lunacy, Fou

JOY Magazine

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Priscilla Shirer is warning parents that society’s growing rejection of Biblical truths is going to have a “staggering” effect on future generations. To help children grow in knowledge about their Creator and who they are, one of Shirer’s points of a

PEARL

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THE THREE VOLUMES of In the Light of Truth contain a total of 168 lectures whose contents, building upon one another, give a picture of Creation in entirety. The Author’s all-embracing view is based on well-known natural laws, which reveal the hidden

Literary Hub

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Red Ink is a quarterly series curated and hosted by Michele Filgate at Books are Magic, focusing on women writers, past and present. The next conversation, “Secrets,” will take place on September 26th at 7 pm, and feature Kristen Arnett (Mostly Dead

Womankind

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Consider a few of the things I did during the 24 hours before beginning to write this article. I watched an hour-long episode of a TV drama my friends had recommended, long after it became clear it wasn’t one for me. I spent 20 minutes replying by em

PEARL

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Time stands still. It remains the same, today, yesterday and a thousand years hence! Only the forms change. We plunge into time, to cull from her records for the purpose of enriching our knowledge from what has been collected there! For time has lost

Literary Hub

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The early pages are fragments, cramped lines—“I am alive,” “Breakfast time – 8:00”—and half-dashed phrases: “words and symbols are powerful,” “perception =/= reality.” It’s a plain gray journal, fabric with bound pages—my husband’s favorite, because

Best Self Magazine

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Photograph by Madison Bersuch — It’s hard to make any real progress on the journey of self-discovery, self-realization, self-empowerment and healing without telling the truth. We have to tell the truth to understand what’s going on with us. We have t

The American Scholar

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In Metaphysical Animals, philosophers Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman offer a captivating collective biography of four college friends who went on to become formidable figures in 20th-century moral thought: Elizabeth Anscombe, Mary Midgley (né

Dumbo Feather

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Dear friend, A paradox which I’m fascinated by (and which has never been more apparent than it has this past year) is how in times of uncertainty and change, we are compelled to reach for certitudes. I suppose it’s the comfort we are seeking, of hav

C Magazine

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Erdem Taʂdelen’s work here draws on a line of thinking he began about the veracity of images during several recent public installations of Demagogues in Vienna, Istanbul and Saskatoon. This hand-held version reframes the project and extends its quest

The Critic Magazine

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Human The Future of Big Ideas in an Age of Small Thinking Michael Bhaskar (Hachette, £20) Kit Wilson is a London-based writer AFTER CENTURIES OF acceleration, humanity is stuck. Genuinely world changing innovations — the aeroplane, vaccines, electric

Fast Bikes

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If you’ve been a naughty biker, you need some decent legal advice. Get it from mail@whitedalton.co.uk Q I am very concerned about a case my son is involved in. My son has mild learning difficulties but can cope with his job and lives alone. Basically

The Christian Science Monitor

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Seeing the cynicism about the pursuit of truth that the US Senate impeachment trial has prompted on both sides, one woman reflects on a lesson she has learned in her own life: A willingness to let go of personal agendas and instead seek God’s truth o

Mornings with Jesus

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AS MY HUSBAND DROVE THROUGH heavy traffic on the interstate, I turned to look at the cars behind us. When I turned back around, the side-view mirror caught my eye. Then I looked at the vehicles behind us again. “Well, I’ll be!” I exclaimed. “The obje

New Philosopher

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Until philosophers are Kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom meet in one, and those commoner natures who pursue either to the exclusion of the other are compelled to

WellBeing

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The story of Oscar Wilde did not end happily. Once lauded on the London stage and feted by society, he suffered the fate of languishing in jail after publicly declaring his love for a man—which was, at that time, deemed a crime. His tumble from grace

ArtAsiaPacific

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At one point during our conversation in his studio-warehouse, Mark Justiniani asked: “What is truth?” The Filipino artist was referencing Plato, whom he sees as the “most artistic philosopher” due to his poetic explorations into knowledge and truth.