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By August Turak on July 29, 2010
When I was an undergraduate at the University of Pittsburgh, I was invited to take a graduate course at a professor’s home with students many years my senior. One day the word “anthropomorphic” came up. Ignorant of its meaning, I fashioned [...]
Posted in Career Success, Transformational Organizations, War Stories | Tagged Audacity, Authenticity, Benefits, Career Improvement, Creativity, Humility, Transparency, War Stories
By August Turak on July 28, 2009
August, truly regret that I have so underestimated you all these years. I never realized the depth of your commitment in this spiritual search. But our dinner the other night, and hearing about your experiences, made me realize how incomplete my understanding of you was. I was just reading an excerpt from “Our Town.” It [...]
Posted in Personal Transformation | Tagged Authenticity, Beauty, Death, Duke, Identity, Illusion, Memory, Our Town, Perspective, Reality, SKS, Thornton Wilder, Zen
By August Turak on March 22, 2009
Are all faiths saying the same thing? Depends on how you look at it. At the level of doctrine religions are very different while at their mystical core they are very similar. However, we should be careful in our tolerance not to reduce religion to a matter of taste. What is most important is being [...]
Posted in Ask Turak, Personal Transformation | Tagged Authenticity, Motive, Purification, Religion, Simplicity, T.S. Eliot, Yoga