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Re:, Darrell Calkins

A collection of epistolary essays on social and spiritual issues

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“The greatest tragedy in life is our inability to experience and express fascination for the people and events we love while in their presence.”
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More than any body of spiritual or philosophic exposition throughout history grounded in what is so, a functional study of subjective experience within an objective reality, so humble and elementary in its sublime esoterica of wisdom and insight it would not be hubris to have called this volatile mass not Re: but along the lines of Lucretius’ The Way Things Are perhaps How to Live, the definitive embodied elocution of a relentless moment of careening evolutionary prerogative characterized by a profound play with humor and grace…each enlivened thought coming unbidden in response to a capitulation in utter faith to an absolute necessity whose cumulative effect is that of magic, alchemy, delight.

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Posted on December 8, 2015December 8, 2015 Quote

“Perhaps the best we can do is to work to uphold the human virtues and qualities we most value, even in the face of everyone’s cynicism, skepticism and distrust, including our own.”

― Darrell Calkins

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← “Real giving, clean, humble, precise, requires at least some anonymity. You do your job, and you’re not going to be paid for it. That’s the point in a way; you were already paid for it…Greatness, if you want to shoot for that, is the ability to do this and not have resentment or any other dis-ease accumulate.”
“Well-being, or wholeness, implies integrity and harmony between all existing elements, providing freedom for the whole.” →
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