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		<title>Walking to work in  Spring</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have the pleasure of commuting to work on foot.  It takes me fifteen minutes through the Northern California Sierra Nevada mining town where I live.  My standard-size, red poodle accompanies me. I leave the house this brisk Spring morning with the intention of inwardly repeating a suggestion like:  “I am a child of G*d” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Answers and Questions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Asking questions is an essential quality of a healthy mind. Children ask questions constantly, not, it would seem, to know things so much as to be a part of things. What those around them have and share, they want as well. For similar reasons we often question not in negation, but rather in wanting to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://livingpresence.com/blog/2010/10/answers-and-questions/</link>
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		<title>How can I interrupt the flow of thought?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every moment is an invitation to be present. Every moment, even in the midst of activity, there is an opportunity to drop all the ‘I’s, the whirling thoughts, and be part of the stillness within. That stillness is you. Useless mind activity is what separates us from really living, feeling, tasting, loving. Useless thoughts separate [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://livingpresence.com/blog/2010/09/how-can-i-interrupt-the-flow-of-thought/</link>
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		<title>Joining a Fourth Way School</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At Antioch College in Ohio, a teacher introduced me to In Search of the Miraculous.  It took me three days to read the table of contents: each phrase was significant.  I returned the book, “I’m not ready.” Reading Casteneda, I found my hands in a dream. Peyote helped me verify the existence of states in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://livingpresence.com/blog/2010/09/joining-a-fourth-way-school/</link>
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		<title>What Keeps Us from Being Present?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My arrival at our agreed venue was at 7:30 in the morning after an overnight bus trip. Every time I make the trip using the overnight bus, I promise myself that I will never do it again. Of course, those groups of thoughts do not know the other group who monitor the mundane affairs of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://livingpresence.com/blog/2010/08/what-keeps-us-from-being-present/</link>
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		<title>Self-Observation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Until we understand ourselves, it is not really possible to understand much about anything around us. To make an observation and create a memory of it, one needs to be a bit more awake, and we wake up at times when things are not happening completely mechanically, times when our usual mechanical patterns have been [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://livingpresence.com/blog/2010/08/self-observation/</link>
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		<title>Fourth Way Schools</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How is one able to ascertain if a School is authentic and that the teacher is conscious? There are no ready-made formulas to determine immediately if one has found an authentic School, or if the teacher is awake.  This is a matter of trial and error over a period of time. Upon joining a teaching, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://livingpresence.com/blog/2010/08/fourth-way-schools/</link>
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		<title>The Many I&#8217;s</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Because we are asleep and do not see that the ‘I’s are merely a response to external stimuli, we can imagine that they are speaking for us, that they are “doing.” But the ‘I’s are not actually making decisions; they are not actually what is living one’s life. They are just running along behind, commenting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://livingpresence.com/blog/2010/07/the-many-is/</link>
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		<title>Being Invited to a Real School</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Finding a School or being guided to a School is the moment where one gets a better understanding why one&#8217;s life before has been as it has been. Personally I never looked for a School. My childhood was alright, nice, with caring and loving parents, safe upbringing, friends in school. Still, since the age of 12-13 I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://livingpresence.com/blog/2010/07/being-invited-to-a-real-school/</link>
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		<title>The Lower Self, The Spark, And The Beloved</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The fundamental premise of spiritual Teachings is that man is composed of two bodies: a physical body created through sexual union, henceforth known as the ‘lower self,’ and an ethereal body composed of a Divine spark, henceforth known as the &#8216;Beloved&#8217; or the &#8216;Higher Self.&#8217; Spiritual Traditions teach that while man is not born with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://livingpresence.com/blog/2010/07/the-lower-self-the-spark-and-the-beloved/</link>
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