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><channel><title>My Muse ~ Movies, Music &#38; Books &#187; Non-Fiction</title> <atom:link href="http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/category/books/non-fiction/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com</link> <description>     Spiritual journeys and words inspired by the arts...</description> <lastBuildDate>Sat, 21 Aug 2010 23:53:50 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1</generator> <item><title>Before and After ~ Stephen Mitchell&#8217;s Second Book of the Dao</title><link>http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/2010/08/14/before-and-after-stephen-mitchells-second-book-of-the-dao/</link> <comments>http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/2010/08/14/before-and-after-stephen-mitchells-second-book-of-the-dao/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 02:27:42 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Patrick</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Insight]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Poems]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Spirituality]]></category> <category><![CDATA[anger]]></category> <category><![CDATA[courage]]></category> <category><![CDATA[fear]]></category> <category><![CDATA[longing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[love]]></category> <category><![CDATA[pain]]></category> <category><![CDATA[sorrow]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Stephen Mitchell]]></category> <category><![CDATA[suffering]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Second Book of the Tao]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/?p=2221</guid> <description><![CDATA[I was digging into Stephen Mitchell&#8217;s The Second Book of the Dao one day back in January (over a lovely Red Snapper Soup @ Granville Island) when a passage in the second chapter inspired the following poem. Before and After Before sorrow, longing Before longing, anger Before anger, pain Before pain, injury Before injury, fear [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/2010/08/14/before-and-after-stephen-mitchells-second-book-of-the-dao/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>War Prayers ~ Mark Twain and Lao Tse on the artlessness of war</title><link>http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/2010/06/01/war-prayers-mark-twain-and-lao-tse-on-the-artlessness-of-war/</link> <comments>http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/2010/06/01/war-prayers-mark-twain-and-lao-tse-on-the-artlessness-of-war/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 14:00:37 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Patrick</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Insight]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Political]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Social]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Spirituality]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ANZAC Day]]></category> <category><![CDATA[armed conflict]]></category> <category><![CDATA[bravery]]></category> <category><![CDATA[courage]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Dao de Jing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[death]]></category> <category><![CDATA[enemy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[freedom]]></category> <category><![CDATA[heroes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Lao Tse]]></category> <category><![CDATA[liberty]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mark Twain]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Memorial Day]]></category> <category><![CDATA[patriotism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[politics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Remembrance Day]]></category> <category><![CDATA[sacrifice]]></category> <category><![CDATA[security]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Stephen Mitchell]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The War Prayer]]></category> <category><![CDATA[victory]]></category> <category><![CDATA[violence]]></category> <category><![CDATA[war]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/?p=1831</guid> <description><![CDATA[Yesterday the people of The United States of America marked Memorial Day. It&#8217;s a day of baseball, hot dogs and apple pie, of families and communities gathering to celebrate the arrival of summer. It&#8217;s a day of flags and bunting and red, white &#38; blue and national pride, and a day to memorialise the millions [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/2010/06/01/war-prayers-mark-twain-and-lao-tse-on-the-artlessness-of-war/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The second book of The Way ~ Stephen Mitchell illuminates the Tao again.</title><link>http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/2010/05/31/the-second-book-of-the-way-stephen-mitchell-illuminates-the-tao-again/</link> <comments>http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/2010/05/31/the-second-book-of-the-way-stephen-mitchell-illuminates-the-tao-again/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 23:27:34 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Patrick</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[...a quote]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Spirituality]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Chuang-Tze]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Chung Yung]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Dao]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Dao de Jing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[fulfillment]]></category> <category><![CDATA[human nature]]></category> <category><![CDATA[illusion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Lao Tse]]></category> <category><![CDATA[seen]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Stephen Mitchell]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Second Book of the Tao]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Way]]></category> <category><![CDATA[unseen]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/?p=1846</guid> <description><![CDATA[Mmmmm&#8230; a day of cloudy wet so a retreat into a tub of hot water with salsa &#38; tortilla chips and a good book about one of my favourite subjects, Stephen Mitchell&#8217;s The Second Book of the Tao (Dao, Tao, same thing, same pronunciation: Dao). Hmmmm&#8230; the liner notes of this book explain that the [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/2010/05/31/the-second-book-of-the-way-stephen-mitchell-illuminates-the-tao-again/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>We’re too good to be this political ~ Be the change you want to see in the world</title><link>http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/2010/05/29/were-too-good-to-be-this-political-be-the-change-you-want-to-see-in-the-world/</link> <comments>http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/2010/05/29/were-too-good-to-be-this-political-be-the-change-you-want-to-see-in-the-world/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 29 May 2010 23:45:53 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Patrick</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Insight]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Political]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Social]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Spirituality]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Stories]]></category> <category><![CDATA[change]]></category> <category><![CDATA[courage]]></category> <category><![CDATA[hatred]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mahatma Gandhi]]></category> <category><![CDATA[malice]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mark Steyn]]></category> <category><![CDATA[politics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[revolution]]></category> <category><![CDATA[society]]></category> <category><![CDATA[spiritual path]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Stephen Mitchell]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Second Book of the Tao]]></category> <category><![CDATA[transformation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[truth]]></category> <category><![CDATA[weekly news magazine]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/?p=1810</guid> <description><![CDATA[My first mistake today was climbing into the bathtub and picking up the May 31st, 2010 edition of Canada&#8217;s weekly news magazine, Macleans, rather than the copy of Stephen Mitchell&#8217;s The Second Book of the Tao, in which I&#8217;d thought to have a nice, long spiritual soak along with the hot water, and possibly bubbles. [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/2010/05/29/were-too-good-to-be-this-political-be-the-change-you-want-to-see-in-the-world/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>15</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Get Miles Away to find your way home ~ Gomez, Thomas Moore and Tristan</title><link>http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/2010/04/26/get-miles-away-to-find-your-way-home-gomez-thomas-moore-and-tristan/</link> <comments>http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/2010/04/26/get-miles-away-to-find-your-way-home-gomez-thomas-moore-and-tristan/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 21:35:05 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Patrick</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Music]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Rock]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Spirituality]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Stories]]></category> <category><![CDATA[connection]]></category> <category><![CDATA[epiphany]]></category> <category><![CDATA[fate]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Get Miles]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gomez]]></category> <category><![CDATA[inspiration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[my spirit quest]]></category> <category><![CDATA[profound spiritual experience]]></category> <category><![CDATA[spiritual path]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Thomas Moore]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tristan]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/?p=905</guid> <description><![CDATA[The year 2000 was an extraordinary one. It was the year I wrote and produced my play, Prisoners, which in itself marked several milestones on my spiritual path. And there was this girl. A dark beauty who rekindled my passion for music. Gomez was just one of the bands we caught live that year at [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/2010/04/26/get-miles-away-to-find-your-way-home-gomez-thomas-moore-and-tristan/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>3 Things I Learned About Rejection By Being Accepted ~ A Traveller’s Tale</title><link>http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/2010/04/18/3-things-i-learned-about-rejection-by-being-accepted-a-travellers-tale/</link> <comments>http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/2010/04/18/3-things-i-learned-about-rejection-by-being-accepted-a-travellers-tale/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 01:05:10 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Patrick</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Insight]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[acceptance]]></category> <category><![CDATA[acceptance letter]]></category> <category><![CDATA[learning]]></category> <category><![CDATA[lessons]]></category> <category><![CDATA[rejection]]></category> <category><![CDATA[rejection letters]]></category> <category><![CDATA[travel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Travelers Tales]]></category> <category><![CDATA[writing]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/?p=1513</guid> <description><![CDATA[This post is an expansion of a comment I made on Daryl Sedore&#8217;s article, Why Rejection Letters are Great appearing on Write to Done. Sedore reminds us that in all endeavours we can expect to be rejected one or more times before being accepted. Every rejection is a good thing; we should look at each [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/2010/04/18/3-things-i-learned-about-rejection-by-being-accepted-a-travellers-tale/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The Dao de Jing ~ The transformational quality of seeing the beauty in all things.</title><link>http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/2010/04/16/the-dao-de-jing-the-transformational-quality-of-seeing-the-beauty-in-all-things/</link> <comments>http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/2010/04/16/the-dao-de-jing-the-transformational-quality-of-seeing-the-beauty-in-all-things/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 18:50:43 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Patrick</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Insight]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Spirituality]]></category> <category><![CDATA[beauty]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Dao de Jing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Daoism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Lao Tse]]></category> <category><![CDATA[transformation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ugliness]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/?p=1496</guid> <description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t remember when I first encountered The Dao de Jing (also Tao te Ching, pronounced the same), which surprises me since it quickly grew to become my favourite written text. It&#8217;s brief (just 81 chapters of verse, a page or so each) yet richly nuanced. I&#8217;ve read all or parts of it dozens of [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/2010/04/16/the-dao-de-jing-the-transformational-quality-of-seeing-the-beauty-in-all-things/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The Fool’s day in April</title><link>http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/2010/04/01/the-fools-day-in-april/</link> <comments>http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/2010/04/01/the-fools-day-in-april/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 08:52:51 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Patrick</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[...a quote]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Insight]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Spirituality]]></category> <category><![CDATA[april fool's day]]></category> <category><![CDATA[tarot cards]]></category> <category><![CDATA[the fool]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Tarot]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/?p=1335</guid> <description><![CDATA[April is my month of the extraordinary. In April 1991, I took the first job I was offered after having been unceremoniously fired by my previous employer. A year later, I&#8217;d had enough of the computing industry and was poised to quit that job&#8230;when Microsoft bought the company I was working for and made me [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/2010/04/01/the-fools-day-in-april/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The Tao of Love and Light: Riffing on physics and faith</title><link>http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/2010/03/09/the-tao-of-love-and-light-riffing-on-physics-and-faith/</link> <comments>http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/2010/03/09/the-tao-of-love-and-light-riffing-on-physics-and-faith/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:24:48 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Patrick</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Insight]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Science]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Spirituality]]></category> <category><![CDATA[beauty]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Daoism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[empiricism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[faith]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fritjof Capra]]></category> <category><![CDATA[knowledge]]></category> <category><![CDATA[light]]></category> <category><![CDATA[love]]></category> <category><![CDATA[reason]]></category> <category><![CDATA[religion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[science]]></category> <category><![CDATA[scientific method]]></category> <category><![CDATA[the divine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Tao of Physics]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/?p=814</guid> <description><![CDATA[The following is a comment storm that blew out of a seemingly innocent status message I posted on Facebook. It got a few of us thinking, and I think the thinking in it, on all sides, is interesting. Note that the quote, by Stephen Edwards, is not taken from the book, The Tao of Physics, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/2010/03/09/the-tao-of-love-and-light-riffing-on-physics-and-faith/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Winnie the Pooh and the Vinegar Tasters</title><link>http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/2010/02/04/winnie-the-pooh-and-the-vinegar-tasters/</link> <comments>http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/2010/02/04/winnie-the-pooh-and-the-vinegar-tasters/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:24:22 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Patrick</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[...a quote]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Insight]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Spirituality]]></category> <category><![CDATA[beauty]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Benjamin Hoff]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Buddha]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Buddhism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Confucianism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Confucius]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Daoism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[duty]]></category> <category><![CDATA[eastern philosophy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[happiness]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Lao Tse]]></category> <category><![CDATA[suffering]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Tao of Pooh]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Vinegar Tasters]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Winnie the Pooh]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://critical-hit.com/?p=381</guid> <description><![CDATA[The Vinegar tasters is among my favourite allegories and provides an excellent introduction to the three philosophies that dominated China through thousands of years: Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism. For me, the most important of these is Taoism, a gentle, soulful and luminous philosophy. I&#8217;m going to be lazy and let someone else explain it all. [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/2010/02/04/winnie-the-pooh-and-the-vinegar-tasters/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>4</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
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