Sep 24, 2019 | Penney's Newsletter, Uncategorized
I invite you to have a look at my new website—it’s still www.penneypeirce.com—but it’s simpler and cleaner, and still offers lots of free stuff! Have a look at the Oracles page! And now, my blog is integrated into the site as well—the latest entry gives you a list of The 10 Books That Have Influenced Me Spiritually—I wonder if any of them were meaningful to you as well? I went back through my old blog and hand-picked the most interesting and useful entries—all the way back to 2006 (!) and reworked them for today.
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Sep 18, 2019 | Uncategorized
These books were highly instrumental in helping me wake up and develop greater wisdom and compassion. The common elements in these—and all the books I’ve integrated into myself over the years—are a quality of deep honesty, resonance with higher truth, and a succinct, personal, direct writing style.
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Sep 16, 2019 | Uncategorized
I hate the word ‘creativity’, because it is a word invented on Madison Avenue by advertisers. It’s clear that the industry needs to renew itself continuously, because otherwise it does not sell. People get bored, generations change and you have to change everything. This is about industry, it’s not about society. Industry needs advertising, and advertising needs creativity because the market needs to renew itself continuously.
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Aug 28, 2019 | Uncategorized
If the leader whose sanction springs from inherent righteousness, such a person will gather a cabinet of “unpurchaseable allies.” Their complete devotion to the public welfare will quicken in turn the public conscience of local leaders and seep down from there to inspire citizens at large. For the process to work, however, rulers must have no personal ambitions, which accounts for the Confucian saying, “Only those are worthy to govern who would rather be excused.”
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Jun 28, 2019 | Uncategorized
As we seek to apply intuition for practical purposes, I can think of few other applications as important as obtaining accurate guidance for ourselves and sharing our well-intentioned insights about others with them.
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May 17, 2019 | Uncategorized
I wrote this in 2008, in regard to the treatment of Obama, but the same thing arises again in 2019, as conservatives haul out those loaded words—Capitalist and Socialist—to try to polarize voters. Those are OLD words that describe fear-based realities like the 5 years of McCarthyism in the early 1950s, or the 3 hot years of Nixon’s Watergate scandal in the early 1970s.
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