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Much of my early years were spent in nature. As a boy I lived in Ghana and spent most of my time on the beach. Most of my vacations were spent in rural New Brunswick. My teen years were spent in rural England. As a teenager I spent a year as a diamond prospector in Botswana. I lived and worked in the bush under canvas exposed to the majesty of how life must have been lived before civilization. The natural world had seeped into my core.

But I left all that behind and had a career. I was the typical institutional person.

But, in my 40’s, I began to feel that something was wrong. Of course I felt that I was the one with the problem, not the system that I had spent my life in. But after much anguish, I woke up. For the last 20 years I have devote ...more

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The Travellers book 4 - The Grey Zone part 5 - Zvi Spiegel, a "Decent Man"

Viktor Frankl made the point that there are really only two races in the world, the decent people and the indecent people. In the Lager, it was almost impossible to be wholly decent. This is a story of a truly a decent man.

The image above is a staged shot taken by the Russians several days after they arrived at Auschwitz on January 27, 1945. The two little girls we see, after the nurse

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“Revolution doesn't have to do with smashing something; it has to do with bringing something forth. If you spend all your time thinking about that which you are attacking, then you are negatively bound to it. You have to find the zeal in yourself and bring that out.”
― Joseph Campbell, Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation

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“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

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“Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.”
― Victor Frankl

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“We spend our life on the edge of death,” the Moor Gurriato added after a while, “but many people do not know that. Only the assen, the wise men, know it.”
― Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Pirates of the Levant

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“There are as many deaths as there are people,” he replied. “No one ever really expects his death, although he may think he does. He merely acccompanies his own death and remains at its disposal.”
― Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Pirates of the Levant

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