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New Tao Posts: The Tao has set all universes free:

Who is to say that what we call the universe is the only universe there is? There will never be a time when knowledge of what we call the universe will be complete. 

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The Tao has set all universes free

The Tao has set all universes free

As many as there are past what we see

There never was a time it was not so

Our singulars imply what we don't know

Gay and dead in Iran

Iran executes three men on homosexuality charges | World news | The Guardian: "Three Iranian men have been executed after being found guilty of charges related to homosexuality, according to a semi-official news agency."

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T.S. Eliot's mother problem

Visions and Revisions: On T.S. Eliot | The Nation: "Nowhere in The Hollow Men does Eliot make reference to the everyday world in which people drink tea, work at banks, write letters, torture their wives; but the presence of Vivien Eliot, the woman through whom Eliot constructed his life as a poet, hovers over every line. “I am sorry I tortured you and drove you mad,” wrote Vivien from a nursing home in 1925. “I had no notion until yesterday afternoon that I had done it. I have been simply raving mad.”"

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Attica better now but still a mixed bag

Attica 40 Years Later: Much Progress, But Much Still Left to Do » Blog of Rights: Official Blog of the American Civil Liberties Union: "Forty years ago the Attica prison was at nearly twice its capacity, housing 2,225 prisoners rather than the 1,200 it was designed for. Prisoners lived in squalid conditions and were denied even the most basic medical care.

Since that time, the NPP has won major victories in the areas of overcrowding, access to medical and mental health care, and First Amendment rights, among many others. However, many prisons are slow to comply with court orders, and new abuses occur every day"

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Delighting in the flow of inner joys.

Abba's Way:

I love the ones whose minds and hearts are fused,
Delighting in the flow of inner joys.
For from their very depths a firelight glows,
Ignited softly by the still small voice.
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I was part of a delegation that went to Ottawa to meet with representatives of Red China

Abba's Way and Confucius (c.551-c. 479 BC) - Associated Content from Yahoo! - associatedcontent.com: "When the U.S. was about to establish diplomatic relations with China, I was part of a delegation that went to Ottawa to meet with representatives of Red China. Most of the people I travelled with were children of missionaries who were very familiar with the China of the past."



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