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		<title>fear, desire, and hope</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’m curious to know where I am going next.  Several timely quotes have presented themselves to me at a time when I am feeling transient.  The first is from Steve Jobs: “Remembering I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.  Remembering that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nakedphilosopher.com/?p=254</link>
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		<title>interview with neil del strother, author of The Flower in the Desert</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(Neil del Strother) Back in January, I posted a short review of The Flower in the Desert, by Neil del Strother. Recently, I had a opportunity to interview Neil about the book and his inspiration for writing it. Clay: What is the book about? Neil: The story is simple. My book is about a boy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nakedphilosopher.com/?p=250</link>
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		<title>Ordon&#8217;s Redoubt</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How the soldiers fall, whose god and faith is the Czar. The Czar is angry:  let us die, and make the Czar happy. &#8211; Adam Mickiewicz]]></description>
		<link>http://nakedphilosopher.com/?p=248</link>
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		<title>all that glitters</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve allowed myself to be seduced by things that glitter along the path, not fully realizing that not all things that glitter are gold.]]></description>
		<link>http://nakedphilosopher.com/?p=246</link>
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		<title>where are you headed?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Where are you headed and how will you get there? And what does it matter in the end, the prince and the pauper travel different roads to reach the same end, buried six feet beneath cold earth, food for the worms and a silent eternity.]]></description>
		<link>http://nakedphilosopher.com/?p=243</link>
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		<title>involutionary path and the evolutionary path</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This hit me smack dead between the eyes this morning.  It’s a passage from a book by a Russian guy named Gurdjieff, who basically dedicated his life to answering the question: “What is the sense and significance of life on earth and human life in particular?” He developed a school of thought called The Fourth Way, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nakedphilosopher.com/?p=231</link>
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		<title>is positive thinking undermining us?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Barbara Ehrenreich has a new book out that addresses this issue called Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America She was compelled to write the book because of the deluge of positive psychology she received after finding out she had breast cancer in 2000. She said all that shiny optimism was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nakedphilosopher.com/?p=227</link>
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		<title>it&#8217;s your life, what are you going to do with it?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was having lunch with a friend the other day and somehow during the course of the meal the topic of death came up.  I think it was because we both realized that we are getting old. I’m 41 and she is 38.  I said to her that if we both live to the average [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nakedphilosopher.com/?p=219</link>
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		<title>career advice from the Tao</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In times of reflection I sometimes turn to the Tao Te Ching (the book of The Way), written by Lao-Tzu, for guidance.  Over these past several days my thinking has taken several synchronistic turns and I realize that the path I chose to walk several years ago is still the path I am on.  It [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nakedphilosopher.com/?p=205</link>
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		<title>i am not a teacher</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am not a teacher only a fellow-traveller of whom you asked the way.  I pointed ahead &#8211; ahead of myself as well as you. &#8211; George Benard Shaw]]></description>
		<link>http://nakedphilosopher.com/?p=157</link>
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