“Whitman and the Breath of the Line”
Verse: from the Latin vertere, to turn. Many poets are great poets, but poor versifiers: they didn't know when to turn the line.
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“The Distinction Between Writer and Author”
A writer writes as his Muse dictates. But an author writes for his self – for wealth and fame.
“Synchronized Breathing”
A very powerful healing procedure is synchronized breathing: when the healer and the sufferer breathe together, as one.
“A Simple, Quiet Meditation”
If there is a purpose in meditation, then it is the Awareness of Guidance. With this in mind, here is a very simple, quiet meditation.
“Chance Encounter With Applied Kinesiology?”
Gandhi said we should no more mourn a death than celebrate a birth. So strong was his belief in Determinism.
“Determinism and Language”
When our society is gotten to accept Other Power instead of self-power, our language, similarly, will be made to change. And this will come to pass, or not, as Determined.
“Writing is Breathing”
Writing is as precious, as wondrous, as breathing. The more so when we are given to realize that all is Other Power.
“The First Time I Took Vitamin E”
It is a strange, deep and at times forbidding river to cross for a doctor to have to admit that he knows nothing whatsoever about nutrition.
“Creativity and Enthusiasm”
For our acts of creativity to be truly therapeutic, they must arise out of a deep desire to conceive them, to incubate them, and then to deliver them into the world.
Painting & Internal Singing
I often find myself singing inside while painting.