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“To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything is t… more →
Tracy Cochran
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tracycochran wrote 8 months ago: “To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to t … more →
The Man With No Story
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tracycochran wrote 1 year ago: On December 2, 2008, Henry Gustav Molaison, who was 82, died in a nursing home in Connecticut. He … more →
Living Ferociously
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tracycochran wrote 1 year ago: On Wednesday, I waited most of the day while my husband had surgery on his spine at Beth Israel in M … more →
Merrily We Roll Along
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tracycochran wrote 1 year ago: In one way or another, human beings have always been involved in scientific search and spiritual sea … more →
A Way To Be Wild
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tracycochran wrote 1 year ago: “‘I think of my territory as that which I have walked in person and know the weather at … more →
What Is This?
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tracycochran wrote 1 year ago: “What is this?” Recently, I’ve learned that koan practice began in sixth-century C … more →
"An Unsolved Mystery Is a Thorn in the Heart"
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tracycochran wrote 1 year ago: The author Joyce Carol Oates uses the above statement as a prompt for students in her creative class … more →
Write Mindfulness
tracycochran wrote 1 year ago: “I have tried to learn in my writing a monastic lesson I could probably not have learned other … more →
Go Down Moses
tracycochran wrote 1 year ago: When Harriet Tubman was 13, her skull was fractured by a 2-pound lead weight in a dispute between an … more →
Making the Sign of the Cross
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tracycochran wrote 1 year ago: Some of us have been questioning what it means to be mechanical or not mechanical. Months ago, in t … more →
What Does It Mean Not To Be Mechanical?
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tracycochran wrote 1 year ago: A reader posed this question as an alternative to “what it means to be mechanical?” He w … more →
The Happiest Place on Earth
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tracycochran wrote 1 year ago: Last week, while visiting my father and sister in Florida, I took what I’m quite sure will be … more →
What Does It Mean To Be Mechanical?
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tracycochran wrote 1 year ago: How naturally the subject of God and what it means to be good flows into the subject of the next Par … more →
stepping back
tracycochran wrote 1 year ago: Christians call it the “recollected heart.” In Sanskrit it is called “smirti,” or “that which is rem … more →
Open and closed (post redux)
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tracycochran wrote 1 year ago: Traveling by car is like watching life on a screen, writes Robert Pirsig in Zen and the Art of Motor … more →
who knew?
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tracycochran wrote 1 year ago: “I should have been born in the Age of Middle Earth,” said my 11-year-old daughter Alexandra as we r … more →
do we need god to be good?
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tracycochran wrote 1 year ago: The editors of Parabola thought it could be fruitful to use this space to chronicle and explore how … more →
