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Happiness
The Sun Interview
Running: Face To Face With Yourself
An Interview With Peter And Martha Klopfer
Everybody can win in a race, you see, if they’ve all improved their personal records. You’ve seen this in track meet after track meet, there’s the guy who comes in last but it’s a personal record for him. He gets as much applause from his buddies as the guy who won.
March 1978Essays, Memoirs & True Stories
Opened Flesh, Naked Spirit
It was Mara who spoke to the child first, her eyes large and full of her own young comprehension, breaking the silence with one soft word out of her hundred word vocabulary: baby.
November 1977Essays, Memoirs & True Stories
Shadow Dancing
Although the world frequently gives me “gifts” that I do not consciously want, the choice becomes mine as to what I do with these gifts. I am learning to appreciate the inevitable burdens and pain of being alive.
September 1977Essays, Memoirs & True Stories
In Joy
Joy is a spark, an energy of newness that lives in the moment. Joy moves me out of myself, out of that part of the universe I am identifying with and calling me.
July 1977Essays, Memoirs & True Stories
Channel One
Power is neither good nor bad. Power is focused ego producing or preventing change. We are children of America: power is our creed.
July 1976
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