Numinous Nonsense

The Year of the Goal Follow-Up. Goal #1

At the beginning of the year I set four major goals for this year. In review they were to, Get Straight A’s & Graduate, Meditate 2 Hours Daily, Improvement of Overall Health, and to Learn Basic Thai. My initial plan was to check in with these goals each quarter, but I haven’t done [...]

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Project Diesel

Project Diesel Originally uploaded by vincenthorn. My buddy Lion (formerly Lyon) and I started “lifting” together a few weeks ago. The first couple weeks were spent taking it fairly easy, working out the soreness, and getting used to waking up early and dragging our butts to the gym. After that (roughly a week ago) we [...]

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Summer Reading List

Now that school’s almost over I’ve got a list of books that I actually want to read… Here’s the list so far, which I’ll be adding to and marking out, as the summer progresses. Dzogchen: The Self Perfected State, by Namkhai Norbu Indestructible Truth: The Living Spirituality of Tibetan Buddhism, by Reggie Ray Secret of the Vajra [...]

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Trip to Asia: Suweet!

I decided I’d finally mention a trip that Emily & I have been planning. It’s a post-graduation trip that will take place at the end of 2006 / beginning of 2007. We’ve been saving up for this trip and discussing it for well over a year now, and as of right this moment [...]

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Smart Bombs and Skillful Means

One of my favorite self-development writers, Steve Pavlina, suggested today that one make “bear bombing” a practice. Bears, according to Steve, are people who are only half-way awake in life, semi-hibernating through life. Bear bombing then, is giving intense feedback to people you consider to be “asleep.” Here is an example of [...]

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The Tao of Pong

I just finished five games of ping-pong with the master of synchrony himself, Professor Albaugh. We played an epic series of pong! I’m talking Forest Gump style ping pong, the kind of pong that sows the seed of a retro-romantic longing for a past that can never be re-created… I used to [...]

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