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Spiritual Musings by Orest Stocco: June 2015
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Spiritual Musings by Orest Stocco. Orest Stocco - Author. Orest Stocco - Author. Saturday, June 27, 2015. 34: Life Is Inherently Self-correcting. Life Is Inherently Self-correcting. 8220;Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.”. Headlined “Fame, fortune and the fallen,” a thought piece on Evan Solomon, the dashing 47 year old host of CBC’s Power and Politics. It would be so simple to call this inherently self-correcting principle of life. I can’t go into detail on how I ...
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Spiritual Musings by Orest Stocco: May 2014
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Spiritual Musings by Orest Stocco. Orest Stocco - Author. Orest Stocco - Author. Friday, May 30, 2014. 3: Life Is Always In a State of Flux. INTRODUCING SPIRITUAL MUSINGS, VOLUME 4. THE MAGNIFICENCE OF SOUL. Life Is Always In a State of Flux. Is a strange and difficult word to pronounce. It is a Greek word coined by the psychiatrist C. G. Jung out of two Greek words, enantios. Running course). Literally enantiodromia. My first encounter with the word enantiodromia. This “conterpositon” that i...That I ha...
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Spiritual Musings by Orest Stocco: May 2015
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Spiritual Musings by Orest Stocco. Orest Stocco - Author. Orest Stocco - Author. Saturday, May 30, 2015. 30: The Parable of the Packages. The Parable of the Packages. 8216;Through indirections we find directions out.’. A play upon Shakespeare. Hamlet Act 2, Scene 1. I became a truth seeker from the day I read Somerset Maugham’s novel The Razor’s Edge. Online, and I had to watch it again. With such fierce objectivity that it made Larry Darrell’s romantic quest for truth seem shallow, but I enjoyed i...
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Spiritual Musings by Orest Stocco: July 2015
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Spiritual Musings by Orest Stocco. Orest Stocco - Author. Orest Stocco - Author. Friday, July 31, 2015. 38: Character is Fate. I scanned one of my bookcases in my writing den the other day and my eyes fell upon a thick softcover book of short stories, light blue in color: The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction. Fifty North American Stories Since 1970;. I’ve already read my manuscript, which I titled Sparkles in the Mist. 8220;Character is fate, which suggests that if a man can know and then...
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Spiritual Musings by Orest Stocco: June 2014
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Spiritual Musings by Orest Stocco. Orest Stocco - Author. Orest Stocco - Author. Saturday, June 21, 2014. 5: I'm On Facebook, Therefore I Am. I’m On Facebook, Therefore I Am. 8220;This is it, sweetheart; so make the most of it,” says the cynical materialist. But I’ve never bought into this perspective. I’ve always believed that we are made of body and spirit, and when our body dies our spirit lives on. How but by the medium of a world like this? In effect, Rumi is saying that we may appear to be the same...
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Spiritual Musings by Orest Stocco: November 2014
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Spiritual Musings by Orest Stocco. Orest Stocco - Author. Orest Stocco - Author. Saturday, November 1, 2014. 13: You Can't Go Home Again. You Can’t Go Home Again. Actually, Thomas Wolfe can’t take credit for that memorable line, which became the title of his posthumous novel You Can’t Go Home Again. He got it from a woman when he related his experience of going back to his hometown of Ashville, North Carolina after a deliberate eight-year absence because of his first novel Look Homeward, Angel,. But that...
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Spiritual Musings by Orest Stocco: September 2014
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Spiritual Musings by Orest Stocco. Orest Stocco - Author. Orest Stocco - Author. Saturday, September 20, 2014. 11: A Cricket In My Window. A Cricket in My Window. Another Message from the Language of Life. That Our Own Life Is the Way. On the writer James Salter. Profiled by Nick Paumgarten in the April 15, 2013 issue, the article is titled “The Last Book, Why James Salter is not famous,. The dread of ontological doubt. 8220;As a writer, you aren’t anybody until you become somebody,”. By Victor L. Wo...
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Spiritual Musings by Orest Stocco: April 2015
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Spiritual Musings by Orest Stocco. Orest Stocco - Author. Orest Stocco - Author. Saturday, April 25, 2015. 25: The Shadow Personality. In one blinding flash of insight, I saw through my tragic character flaw that was responsible for so much aggravation in my life; and every time I got the urge to correct someone the Good Saint’s words popped into my mind, and I had to bite my tongue. I went to this gifted medium for a spiritual reading, and out of this experience came my novel. Healing with Padre Pio.
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Spiritual Musings by Orest Stocco: February 2015
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Spiritual Musings by Orest Stocco. Orest Stocco - Author. Orest Stocco - Author. Saturday, February 14, 2015. The saddest words in the world are: if only. A few days ago I brought to closure The Pearl of Great Price. And my mind was restless as it always is whenever I finish writing a new book; and to keep the PCBs (post-creative blues) at bay, I went down to the basement to browse through my books in the hope of finding one that would help to fill that empty feeling left by writing a new book. 8220;Word...
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Spiritual Musings by Orest Stocco: August 2014
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Spiritual Musings by Orest Stocco. Orest Stocco - Author. Orest Stocco - Author. Saturday, August 23, 2014. 10: The Mooring of Our Life. The Mooring of Our Life. 8220;The more the outside world spins out of control,. The more your interior world must assume total control.”. To moor something is to anchor it, like mooring a boat. In his iconic poem Invictus. Henley’s poem Invictus. Ever since the explosion of social media I’ve been in a quandary, because for the life of me I fail to see where we are...
