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<div><h3>Tanka of trials and tribulations for spiritual growth</h3></div>
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</div><blockquote id="84da"><p>Incarnate handsome
Book-smart wealthy privileged
Behind these 8-balls
Face yours and others’ demons
Emerge confident and Light</p></blockquote><p id="5e51">The term archetypes in the second line refers to <a href="https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-the-collective-unconscious-2671571">Carl Jung’s work and his beliefs regarding the collective unconscious</a>.</p><p id="5268">The third line evokes my work on the concepts of acceptance and “it is what it is.”</p><div id="d7b4" class="link-block">
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<h2>My Selection — Alcoholics Anonymous (Colloquially Known as “The Big Book”)</h2>
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<h2>Who Decides What is Fair?</h2>
<div><h3>Perhaps it isn't that life isn’t fair to some and too fair to others — rather, life just is?</h3></div>
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</div><p id="2dd3">The third line also understands that in life, as in many card games, we are not stuck with the original hand — we can discard and try our luck with what comes next. “Know when to hold ’em and know when to fold em” also comes to mind.</p>
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<h2>We Don’t Want Your White Charity</h2>
<div><h3>My first personal experience with racism, my childhood ignorance, and cognitive dissonance</h3></div>
<div><p>hollykellums.medium.com</p></div>
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</div><blockquote id="8d6c"><p><i>And if we want to get rid of racism because it is wrong, we have to be careful how we think. You understand, don’t you, Holly, that we are all created equally?</i></p></blockquote><blockquote id="8d6b"><p>“Yes, I do, Granny”, I said, with a smile.</p></blockquote><p id="28e3">The fifth line of the tanka reflects this summation of the meaning of life:</p><blockquote id="fe9d"><p>the meaning of life is to learn — <b><i>for the soul to learn how to make a human act like a better human</i></b>.</p></blockquote><p id="f1ea" type="7">“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.” — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin</p><p id="8588"><a href="undefined">White Feather</a> conducted the deepest exploration of reincarnation and the concept of time that I have encountered here:</p><div id="7ad9" class="link-block">
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<h2>Simultaneous Selves</h2>
<div><h3>Thinking differently about reincarnation</h3></div>
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</div><p id="4f7c">In Rama I create,</p><p id="29de"><a href="https://marcus17043.medium.com"><b>Marcus</b></a></p></article></body>
