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Mike Hind's avatar

You describe some intuitions I sometimes forget to live by. And when that happens the creep of dissatisfaction is insidious.

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Ed Brenegar's avatar

Be kind to yourself. We live in a world that doesn’t want you to live by your wits. Becoming aware is a good first step in restoring our sense of self-sufficiency.

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Kathleen Devanney. A human.'s avatar

Lovely. I enjoyed that and nodded in agreement throughout.

Also, one of my favorite all time books is Christopher Alexander's The Timeless Way of Building. Thank you!

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Ed Brenegar's avatar

Yeah. Brilliant man who never gave up trying discover the world as it is.

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Havakuk's avatar

This is deep! I suspect several elements of this essay need further contemplation and development as a result. Thanks to the author for raising this perspective.

I’m a proponent of wholeness in my own life and philosophy : integrity — from integer , meaning one, a single unit. When wholeness is damaged, treatment of symptoms can quickly become counter productive.

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Ed Brenegar's avatar

Thanks, Doc. I appreciate it very much. This post is sort of a summary of some of the stuff I wrote last year. The links are where those ideas have some development. I would love to know more of what you think.

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Havakuk's avatar

I think I sensed some of where you were going, almost between the lines, as it were. I’d be happy to have a chat maybe over Telegram or WhatsApp, if you thought it would be valuable, Ed?

I’ve just launched writethevision.substack.com, the focus of which will be personal, cultural regeneration, wherein I intend to share some of my ideas about regeneration, wholeness, spiritual renewal and so forth.

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Ed Brenegar's avatar

Yes. Let's do that. We can do it on Zoom so we can be more than disembodied voices. Here's my email ed(at)edbrenegar(dot)com. Let's connect there, and go forward. In the mean time, I'll subscribed to your Stack.

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Havakuk's avatar

Did you ever receive my email response to this, Ed? I’ll try again.

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Ed Brenegar's avatar

Please send again.

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Havakuk's avatar

Done

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