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	<description>Overcoming a Dysfunctional Litter</description>
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		<title>Love Is Giving</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 23:19:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You’ve got to give it away to keep it.&#8211;12 Step saying Recently, I heard someone say that if we can’t share, we can’t love. I wish I could remember who said it so I could share it with you, giving credit where credit is due, but I can’t. Suffice to know this wasn’t my original [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Pushes Your Buttons?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 21:45:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kitty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anger and Resentment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rhetorical devices&#8211;defined by Aristotle as logos, ethos, and pathos, or logic, morality, and emotion&#8211;to read more, click here&#8211;are meant to persuade people to change their minds and come around to the speaker’s way of thinking. There is nothing inherently wrong with this. In fact, persuasiveness is a fine quality to have, and everyone has a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why We Don’t Take Better Care of Ourselves</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 20:12:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kitty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[FOO (Family of Origin Issues)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self-love/self-esteem]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“Low self esteem,” “self loathing,” and the like are facile labels for why people sometimes don’t take better care of themselves. And even if they are sometimes true, I think they only hint at the deeper reasons, reasons that are as complex and messy as human nature itself. When I say “taking better care of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Art of Un-Compromise</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 00:34:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kitty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Authenticity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Character/Values]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Critical Thinking]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Compromise: a settlement of differences by mutual concessions; an agreement reached by adjustment of conflicting or opposing claims, principles, etc., by reciprocal modification of demands.&#8211;from Dictionary.com In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit.&#8211;Ayn Rand First off, this is not an article about politics. But politics offers a great [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marks of Mature Thinking</title>
		<link>http://www.bravenewkitty.com/2012/05/marks-of-mature-thinking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 22:15:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kitty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Character/Values]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Forgiveness]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[26. But it is so very hard to be an on-your-own, take-care-of-yourself-cause-there-is-no-one-else-to-do-it-for-you grown-up. (from Sheldon Kopp’s Eschatological Laundry List) One of my earliest posts on this blog, back in November 2007, was The Mark of Mature Thinking. The point of the post is that mature thinking is the ability to hold two contradictory ideas simultaneously&#8211;freedom [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grief Work</title>
		<link>http://www.bravenewkitty.com/2012/05/grief-work/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 17:10:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kitty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Depression]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healing Process]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been writing this blog for almost five years now, and I was shocked to see that I haven’t done a proper post about grief. Because when all is said and done, after all the tears, rage, righteous anger, depression, denial, resistance, fear, addiction, and all the rest, I discovered that what it all comes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One Final Thought on A Guide for the Perplexed</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2012 16:32:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kitty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Critical Thinking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spirituality]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;this state is not something you can bring about. This nondual state, this state of One Taste, is the very nature of every experience before you slice it up. This One Taste is not some experience you bring about through effort; rather it is the actual condition of all experience before you do anything to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Purpose of Art</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 21:51:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kitty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art and Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Authenticity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think the last post I’m going to do about A Guide for the Perplexed is going to be about art. I have never really “understood” art very well, although aside from watching some episodes of Sister Wendy I’ve never really tried. I’ve always intuited, though, that it wasn’t just about pleasing the senses, that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Convergent and Divergent Problems</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 16:27:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kitty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Critical Thinking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spirituality]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most interesting sections in A Guide for the Perplexed is about convergent and divergent problems and how they relate to our perplexing human state. Convergent problems have solutions that are verifiable, repeatable, and stable. The example Mr. Schumacher used in the book was bicycles: after many attempts at a two-wheeled vehicle, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Question Authority</title>
		<link>http://www.bravenewkitty.com/2012/04/question-authority/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 17:18:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kitty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Character/Values]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Guide for the Perplexed starts out talking about maps. The first thing to know about maps is that they are, by their nature, incomplete; that is, it is impossible for a map to contain all the information about the territory they are describing. For this reason, it is very important to select good maps [...]]]></description>
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