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		<title>Year end reflections &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:03:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shahana</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Khalil Gibran]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Someone recently wrote to me:
I have read your excellent writings.  Although the Power of Now is a great book for the times, everything that needed to be said (and internalized into practice) has been done since times immemorial, if only (more) people were open to listen. The best such a book can do is serve [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flyingchickadee.wordpress.com&blog=6065017&post=544&subd=flyingchickadee&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Activate thy Verbs!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 05:12:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shahana</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Life is a Verb]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patty Digh]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[


When I first moved to America nearly 13 years ago, I arrived with a formidable fluency in the Queen&#8217;s English peppered with occasional indulgences in the flavors of Ind-lish. Although I didn&#8217;t end my sentences with only for emphasis and knew that prepone was (then) a figment of the Indian imagination (or creativity), I did have to be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flyingchickadee.wordpress.com&blog=6065017&post=605&subd=flyingchickadee&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Simple Living, High Thinking</title>
		<link>http://flyingchickadee.wordpress.com/2009/12/23/simple-living-high-thinking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 23:56:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shahana</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Joanne Heim]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Living Simply]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This holiday season I can&#8217;t help but chuckle again at a conversation a good friend of mine (let&#8217;s call her Devi) and I had earlier this year, comparing notes on our respective upbringings with specific regard to things, stuff, gifts &#8230; you know, materialism. She was telling me how her mother had one very principled and very [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flyingchickadee.wordpress.com&blog=6065017&post=567&subd=flyingchickadee&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Arjuna and the Fish Eye: the fallacy of being over-informed, hyper-busy and multi-tasking</title>
		<link>http://flyingchickadee.wordpress.com/2009/12/15/arjuna-and-the-fish-eye-the-fallacy-of-being-over-informed-hyper-busy-and-multi-tasking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:20:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shahana</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a little story from the Hindu epic Mahabharata, about the renowned archery master Dronacharya training the Pandava brothers in the art and skill of archery. Once, when the five Pandava brothers and Karna were assembled for an archery instruction session with Guru Drona, he tied a wooden fish high on a tree above a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flyingchickadee.wordpress.com&blog=6065017&post=468&subd=flyingchickadee&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Shahana</media:title>
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		<title>Tourist or Traveler?</title>
		<link>http://flyingchickadee.wordpress.com/2009/12/11/tourist-or-traveler/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:51:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shahana</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Thich Nhat Hanh]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After a significant hiatus from writing, perhaps the best excuse I can offer is that &#8230; &#8220;I was traveling.&#8221; Some literally, some metaphorically, for what is life but a journey?
On that note, I have observed that most people, whether on a holiday journey or life journey, adopt one of two roles: tourist or traveler. I don&#8217;t, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flyingchickadee.wordpress.com&blog=6065017&post=394&subd=flyingchickadee&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The cost of being right</title>
		<link>http://flyingchickadee.wordpress.com/2009/09/30/the-cost-of-being-right/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:31:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shahana</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Judy J Johnson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[What's so wrong with being absolutely right]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://flyingchickadee.wordpress.com/?p=421</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Nearly three years ago, when I still worked at a large global design firm, a new employee was assigned to the desk next to me in the open-office system. She was an interior designer with &#8220;several years of experience,&#8221; had come from another well-known, large, local firm, was an inscrutable 60 years of age, pranced around in shimmery ponchos, and held [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flyingchickadee.wordpress.com&blog=6065017&post=421&subd=flyingchickadee&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Shahana</media:title>
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		<title>Creating a life beyond migraines</title>
		<link>http://flyingchickadee.wordpress.com/2009/09/01/creating-a-life-beyond-migraines/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 04:41:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shahana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[health]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Carolyn Bernstein]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Migraine Brain]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Having experienced debilitating migraines for 19 years, the journey from surviving with them to thriving inspite of them has been long, arduous, insightful and ultimately, joyful. I have accessed science, art and spirituality to first understand my migraines, then find acceptance for them, and finally, move towards transcending them.
To share my discoveries, I have created [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flyingchickadee.wordpress.com&blog=6065017&post=392&subd=flyingchickadee&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Shahana</media:title>
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		<title>How the mind interferes with Consciousness</title>
		<link>http://flyingchickadee.wordpress.com/2009/08/14/how-the-mind-interferes-with-consciousness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:49:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shahana</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gary Weber]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Happiness Beyond Thought]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In a previous post &#8211; Future becomes Past without being Present - I shared how the only way to move through a time of intense suffering had been to live two hours at a time &#8211; that is, be fully and uncompromisingly present.
This eventually led to an insight that my suffering was rooted in my concept of linear, sequential time – represented by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flyingchickadee.wordpress.com&blog=6065017&post=352&subd=flyingchickadee&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Power of Now</title>
		<link>http://flyingchickadee.wordpress.com/2009/07/28/the-power-of-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:05:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shahana</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Early this year, I wrote a post titled Future becomes Past without being Present.
Well, I am currently reading Eckhart Tolle&#8217;s book The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment. I had already read his more advanced work A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life&#8217;s Purpose (Oprah&#8217;s Book Club, Selection 61), and I&#8217;m finding that The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flyingchickadee.wordpress.com&blog=6065017&post=342&subd=flyingchickadee&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reaction, Response, or Initiation</title>
		<link>http://flyingchickadee.wordpress.com/2009/07/07/reaction-response-or-initiation/</link>
		<comments>http://flyingchickadee.wordpress.com/2009/07/07/reaction-response-or-initiation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:06:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shahana</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I wrote about distinguishing between decision and choice.  It was while working in a fast-paced, aggressive environment that I had an experience fully illustrating how recognizing and exercising choice could immensely benefit actions and outcomes.
In the summer of 2007, I had been instrumental in helping the global design firm I worked for, win [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flyingchickadee.wordpress.com&blog=6065017&post=313&subd=flyingchickadee&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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