Posted September 30, 2019 in Monthly News By Joel Bowman, on 30 September 2019 From a poem by American poet, Walt Whitman:
I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain’d, I stand and look at them long and long.
They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, They […]
Posted December 31, 2018 in Monthly News By Joel Bowman, on 31 December 2018 John Lennon is usually given credit for having said, “Life is what happens while you are making other plans.” The origin of the saying, however, pre-dates Lennon. That’s understandable, because it is a universal truth. Robert Browning’s version (expressed in Andrea del Sarto) was “a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, / Or what’s a […]
Posted January 31, 2018 in Monthly News By Debra and Joel, on 31 January 2018 Look around you at those who say no to war, who say that force is not the only way, and see that many of those spokespersons are using force to try to make their point; not force of violence but a force of confrontation that cannot compassionately hear others. Here is where you have […]
Posted August 31, 2016 in Monthly News By Joel Bowman, on 31 August 2016 The song central to Debra’s post this month, “Show Me the Way,” by Dennis DeYoung and Styx, illustrates humanity’s desire for meaning. As is usually the case for the Beyond Mastery Newsletter, Debra wrote her article first, so that I could write something that would fit the theme she selected. When I read her article, […]
Posted July 31, 2015 in Monthly News By Joel Bowman, on 31 July 2015 To the best of my knowledge, the term Spiritual Partnership was coined by Gary Zukav, who used the term initially to refer to his relationship with Linda Francis, his wife. Debra and I read Zukav’s first book, Seat of the Soul, at a time we were doing a lot of fighting. Although we shared many […]
Posted May 31, 2015 in Uncategorized By Joel Bowman, on 31 May 2015 Charles Dickens opens A Tale of Two Cities with one of the best-known lines in all of English literature:
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of […]
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