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J. Paul Lanier's Blog – February 2011 Archive (4)

Recovery Cat 2.26.2011

"Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death."

- Patrick Henry, March 23, 1775.

"Gaddafi is an a**hole."

- Wael Ghonim, Twitter, January 22, 2011…

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Added by J. Paul Lanier on February 26, 2011 at 6:00am — 1 Comment

The function of the human mind is to dream, but we have learned to dream without awareness... the old shamans would use hallucinogenic plants like peyote to distort the perception of the brain.

Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements Companion Book, pp. 71,…

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Added by J. Paul Lanier on February 19, 2011 at 5:00am — 1 Comment

Recovery Cat 2.12.2010

The best way to deal with such anxieties is the usually preferred method of head-on confrontation with the fear, for it is a psychological fact that what we are afraid of and avoid almost always gains more power over us, while that which we face up to and conquer thereby loses its…

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Added by J. Paul Lanier on February 12, 2011 at 6:00am — 1 Comment

Recovery Cat 2.5.2011

For him too there is the comparitively monotonous time of his work, and the time of celebrations and festivals - in short, "festal time"... he obviously experiences a different temporal rhythm from that which he experiences when he is working or bored.

Mirce Eliade, The…

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Added by J. Paul Lanier on February 5, 2011 at 6:00am — 1 Comment