Commonplace, Ordinary, Everyday Life

Choosing Good Nature

"Life only avails, not the having lived."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The little things are infinitely the most important."
- Sherlock Holmes, "A Case of Identity"

"Weighty upon the earth, naked before the stars" - Robert Jackson

praying Indian

by

Robert Stanley Jackson

A.B., Ed.M., Ed.D., Harvard University

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Awe - What Is Most Familiar Is Most Astonishing
THE PHILOSOPHY OF LIGHTENMENT
Life Only Avails, Not the Having Lived
Mind Is Found Throughout Life
I Am in Nature, Not Apart from It
My Life Is Only My Own, Not Anyone Else's
Anxiety Explained
We Can Take a Stand in Our Own Minds
Goodwill Begins with the Self
THE PRACTICE OF LIGHTENMENT
Does This Moment Matter?
When You Breathe, Just Breathe, and When You Walk, Just Walk

Responding to an Attack of Anxiety
GETTING EVEN
GETTING ALONG
WE ARE MORE THAN WE KNOW
TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE
WE ARE ALL EQUAL
Dear Doctor: When I Was Four Years Old
Dear Doctor: I Awaken with an Anxiety Attack
Dear Doctor: I Have a Long History of Being Rejected
Dear Doctor: I Am Pestered by Bad Thoughts and Feelings from the Past
Dear Doctor: I Am Clumsy, Overweight, and Poor at Sports
Dear Doctor: There Are a Lot of Loose Ends in My Mind
Dear Doctor: I Would Rather Think Pleasant Thoughts Than Unpleasant Thoughts
Dear Doctor: My Wife Wants to Win Every Argument
Useful Sayings
Dimensions of Existence (diagram)

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