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How I Went From the External to the Internal: My Journey in “Fitness”

June 11, 2017 2 Comments read Fitness
How I Went From the External to the Internal: My Journey in “Fitness”

I’d like to share how I became my own healer and the almost fairy tale way of how the path of fitness brought me from the external to the internal.

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ARE YOU ONE?

May 27, 2017 0 Comments read Fitness, Life
ARE YOU ONE?

Thoughts on walking and disembodiment, electric self-balancing scooters, unicycles, and hoverboards. And a perfect example of absurd marketing.

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Muses Don’t Look Out Airplane Windows

April 10, 2017 3 Comments read Life
Muses Don’t Look Out Airplane Windows

I have to share a recent account of disenchantment, a condition I feel largely borne of disembodiment, and disembodiment endemic of perhaps 99% of the world.

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Year of the Fire Monkey: My Top 10 Biggest Changes of 2016

March 26, 2017 2 Comments read Life
Year of the Fire Monkey: My Top 10 Biggest Changes of 2016

The top ten biggest changes the Fire Monkey brought me back in 2016. Feet awakening, the Tao, Rolfing, minimalism, and more.

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Without Going Outside, You May Know the Whole World

March 19, 2017 0 Comments read Daodejing, Tao
Without Going Outside, You May Know the Whole World

Without going outside, you may know the whole world.
Without looking through the window, you may see the ways of heaven.
The farther you go, the less you know.

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