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a poet’s notebook

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Jonathan Haidt

March 6, 2008

A New Earth ~ Week 1

It is customary when writing on spiritual matters to tell stories — parables or koans — to help illuminate the unenlightened. Tolle does this, and these parts of the book, I like. Yesterday I happened across this in an old Readers Digest (March 2006) and it expresses, on so many levels, the difficulties I have… Continue reading

A New Earth

A New Earth, Books, Eckhart Tolle, Jonathan Haidt, New Age, Oprah, psychology, skepticism, spirituality, The Happiness Hypothesis
March 3, 2008

A New Earth, The Happiness Hypothesis, Oprah, and me

Well, although I’m still not sure why I’m doing this (possibly just to set myself a task) I’ve decided on an approach. I have finished The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom, by Jonathan Haidt; and quickly read A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose, by Eckhart Tolle. Quickly, because I’ll be… Continue reading

A New Earth

A New Earth, Books, Eckhart Tolle, Jonathan Haidt, New Age, Oprah, psychology, skepticism, spirituality, The Happiness Hypothesis

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Artificial Intelligence

I do not use AI to write. I believe writing is thinking, and I prefer to do my own. If/when I post anything here that I suspect or know to be AI generated, I will tell you.

Poems

Please do not assume that I am the speaker/ subject of my poems.

In these times of creative nonfiction and fictionalized memoirs, I think of the poem itself as true fiction: it is most likely not factual, but it must be true.

It is likely to be — it is best if it is — a truth I did not know before I wrote, and may not understand even then.

A poem is my way of discovering (dis-covering) what I feel; sometimes, what I think — but it is not necessarily biographical.

Jonathan Haidt

A New Earth ~ Week 1

A New Earth, The Happiness Hypothesis, Oprah, and me