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Sam Mickey

@sammickey.bsky.social
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Philosophy, ecological civilization, climate ethics, teaching at the University of San Francisco, podcasting for the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology

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Sam Mickey @sammickey.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Tulku Pema Rigtsal weaves together personal stories and Buddhist teachings, offering practical guidance on compassion, kindness, and wisdom.
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Sam Mickey @sammickey.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
"When you stop needing others to be different, they change. When you stop needing yourself to be better, you grow. This is the paradox of the spiritual path: We arrive by stopping, not by striving." www.shambhala.com/at-peace-fil...
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At Peace, Filled with Joy
​​What if your deepest struggles were the very ground from which authentic joy could grow? Through 57 carefully-selected verses, Zen master Cuong Lu draws on the ancient wisdom of the Dhammapada to gi...
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Sam Mickey @sammickey.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Ocean Memory A talk by Melody Jue hosted by the Long Now Foundation longnow.org/talks/02026-...
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Melody Jue: Ocean Memory
Launched by Stewart Brand in 02003, Long Now Talks has invited more than 400 leading thinkers to share their civilization-scale ideas.
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Sam Mickey @sammickey.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Animist Poetics: Ancestral Trauma and Regeneration in African Literature by Ryan Topper This book argues that African literature conceptualizes trauma and regeneration as a more-than-human process, offering an animist revision of psychoanalysis. sunypress.edu/Books/A/Anim...
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Animist Poetics
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Sam Mickey @sammickey.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
The International Society for Philosophy as a Way of Life (ISPWL) was founded in 2025 to promote the study, practice, and public dissemination of philosophy understood not merely as a theoretical discipline, but as a way of living and transforming oneself. www.ispwl.com
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Home - INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR PHILOSOPHY AS A WAY OF LIFE © 2026
International Society for Philosophy as a Way of Life Discover more The International Society for Philosophy as a Way of Life (ISPWL) was founded in 2025 to promote the study, practice, and public dis...
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Sam Mickey @sammickey.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Biosphere an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal on ecosystems published quarterly online www.mdpi.com/journal/bios...
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Sam Mickey @sammickey.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
A comprehensive study of D. T. Suzuki's Zen philosophy and philosophical psychology in relation to his Buddhist understanding of the "cosmic Unconscious." sunypress.edu/Books/D/D.-T...
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D. T. Suzuki on the Unconscious in Zen Art, Meditation, and Enlightenment
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Sam Mickey @sammickey.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
This is an incredibly comprehensive bibliography of research on integral ecology iebibliography.org
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Integral Ecology Bibliography – The Laudato Si Institute Bibliography of Integral Ecology
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Sam Mickey @sammickey.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
In States of the Earth: An Ecological and Racial History of Secularization, Mohamed Amer Meziane shows how, in a world where material technology was considered divine, religious and secular forces both tried to achieve Heaven on Earth by destroying Earth itself. www.versobooks.com/products/305...
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The States of the Earth
While industrial states competed to colonize Asia and Africa in the nineteenth century, conversion to Christianity was replaced by a civilizing mission. This new secular impetus strode hand in hand wi...
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Sam Mickey @sammickey.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Lived Experience for Everyone, a podcast created and hosted by Joseph Rivera and Helena Connolly. Talking about how academic studies in theology, philosophy, religion, contemplative practice, poetry or literature can enrich your life. livedexperiencepodcast.podbean.com
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Lived Experience for Everyone | livedexperiencepodcast
<span>Welcome to Lived Experience for Everyone. This podcast seeks to harness academic expertise in a conversational tone. Each episode invites guests from fields such as spirituality, philosophy, poe...
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Sam Mickey @sammickey.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
“Since our mind is not proportionate to the divine substance, God remains beyond our intellect and so is unknown to us. Hence the supreme knowledge which we have of God is to know that we do not know God, insofar as we know that what God is surpasses all that we can understand.” — Thomas Aquinas
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Sam Mickey @sammickey.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
"truth sinks in like rain into very hard earth. The rain is very gentle, and we soften up slowly at our own speed. But when that happens, something has fundamentally changed in us. That hard earth has softened. It doesn’t seem to happen by trying to get it or capture it. It happens by letting go"
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Sam Mickey @sammickey.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Applied Mysticism: Studies of Meditation and Psychedelics in Secular Contexts by Richard H. Jones sunypress.edu/Books/A/Appl...
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Applied Mysticism
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Sam Mickey @sammickey.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Reflections on Thomas Tweed’s transformative new history, Religion in the Lands That Became America: A New History (Yale University Press) www.resilience.org/stories/2025...
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What Counts as American Religion?
Whether or not one agrees with Tweed’s definition of religion, his choice to begin his story in ancient Texas toward the end of the last Ice Age in North America, rather than New England or Jamestown ...
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Sam Mickey @sammickey.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
"The study of mystical experiences and Latour’s ontological turn: toward a participatory approach" by Andre van der Braak www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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(PDF) The study of mystical experiences and Latour’s ontological turn: toward a participatory approach
PDF | On May 24, 2025, André van der Braak published The study of mystical experiences and Latour’s ontological turn: toward a participatory approach | Find, read and cite all the research you need on...
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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
y’all remember when adorno said that intolerance of ambiguity is indicative of an authoritarian mindset? i think about that a *lot.*
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Sam Mickey @sammickey.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Symbiotic Posthumanist Ecologies in Western Literature, Philosophy and Art. Towards Theory and Practice An open access volume edited by Professor Peggy Karpouzou and Nikoleta Zampaki www.peterlang.com/document/128...
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Peter Lang Verlag - Symbiotic Posthumanist Ecologies in Western Literature, Philosophy and Art
Through the burgeoning fields of Posthumanities and Environmental Humanities, this edition examines the changing conception of human subjectivity, ...
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Sam Mickey @sammickey.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
"To live together in the world means essentially that a world of things is between those who have it in common, as a table is located between those who sit around it; the world, like every in-between, relates and separates men at the same time." - Hannah Arendt
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Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology @religion-ecology.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
The new Ecozoic Reader is live—guest-edited by Sam King & Sam Mickey with reflections from leaders across religion & ecology. A look back at our roots, and forward to what’s next. Read here → bit.ly/ecozoicreader cc: @sammickey.bsky.social
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Sam Mickey @sammickey.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
A Fire Runs through All Things: Zen Koans for Facing the Climate Crisis www.shambhala.com/a-fire-runs-...
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A Fire Runs through All Things
PubWest 2023 Book Design Award (Silver)At a time of climate emergency, Zen koans show us how crisis itself can reveal the regenerative openness of life, mind, and being.Zen koans are a tradition of ho...
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Wild Women @wildwomen.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
In memoriam, Joanna Macy (May 2, 1929 - July 19, 2025) For more than half a century, scholar, Buddhist, ecologist, and “awake activist” Joanna Macy, PhD, worked tirelessly for personal, social, and planetary transformation. tricycle.org/article/reme...
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Ecodharma Leader Joanna Macy Has Died
For more than half a century, scholar, Buddhist, ecologist, and "awake activist" Joanna Macy, PhD, worked tirelessly for personal, social, and planetary transformation.
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Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology @religion-ecology.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
The latest Spotlights episode is live: Natalia Schwien Scott on healing, kinship, and the sacred threads between science and spirit. Herbalist. Wildlife rehab apprentice. Harvard PhD candidate. Hosted by @sammickey.bsky.social 🎥 Watch: youtube.com/watch?v=eupgQhsZDdA #ReligionAndEcology #Fore
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Sam Mickey @sammickey.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
CETI: a nonprofit organization applying advanced machine learning and state-of-the-art robotics to listen to and translate the communication of sperm whales. www.projectceti.org
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Project CETI •-- Home
CETI is a nonprofit organization applying advanced machine learning and state-of-the-art robotics to listen to and translate the communication of sperm whales.
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Sam Mickey @sammickey.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
A beautiful summer day for the San Francisco Bay.
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Sam Mickey @sammickey.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Researchers Develop an LSD Analogue with Potential for Treating Schizophrenia | UC Davis www.ucdavis.edu/news/researc...
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Researchers Develop an LSD Analogue with Potential for Treating Schizophrenia
University of California, Davis, researchers have developed a new, neuroplasticity-promoting drug closely related to LSD that harnesses the psychedelic’s therapeutic power with reduced hallucinogenic ...
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Sam Mickey @sammickey.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
I’m Nobody! Who are you? Are you – Nobody – too? Then there’s a pair of us! Don’t tell! they’d advertise – you know! How dreary – to be – Somebody! How public – like a Frog – To tell one’s name – the livelong June – To an admiring Bog! - Emily Dickinson
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Sam Mickey @sammickey.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
"Philosophizing presses on reflectively to the point where thinking becomes the experience of reality itself. … I must think constantly, though without attaining reality in such thinking alone. By way of a provisional, preparatory thinking I experience something more than thought." - Karl Jaspers
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Sam Mickey @sammickey.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
"The Spirit breaks down barriers and tears down the walls of indifference and hatred...." - Pope Leo XIV Homily for Pentecost Sunday, June 8, 2025 www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
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Pentecost Sunday - Holy Mass in the Jubilee of Movements, Associations and New Communities (8 June 2025) | LEO XIV
The Holy Father Leo XIV presides over the Eucharistic Celebration on the Solemnity of Pentecost - Jubilee of Movements, Associations and New Communities, 8 June 202
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Sam Mickey @sammickey.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
This will be a wonderful event, with a focus on the complex relationships between Indigenous traditions and Christianity, honoring the wisdom of the Haudensosaunee and the legacy of Pope Francis.
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Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology @religion-ecology.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
If you're in the New York area, check out "The Doctrine of Christian Discovery, The Jesuits, and Laudato si: Defending Mother Earth," Saturday, June 14, 1:00-4:00pm Free and Open to the Public! Featuring Phillip Arnold, Sandy Bigtree, Kim Carfore, Christiana Zenner, and Chip Callahan
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Sam Mickey @sammickey.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Laughing on the Brink of Humanity: An Exercise in Epihumanism by Jan Miernowski Looking for laughter on the brink of humanity in literature and philosophy, natural science and film, theology and computer science, this book is appropriate to our posthuman age. sunypress.edu/Books/L/Laug...
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Laughing on the Brink of Humanity
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Sam Mickey @sammickey.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
RIP Alphonso Lingis (November 23, 1933 - May 8, 2025), a brilliant philosopher, writer, and photographer. One of my favorite books of his is The Community of Those Who Have Nothing in Common t.co/MpSFMM6E51
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Sam Mickey @sammickey.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Energy Humanities is a hub for new ideas and insights about climate, energy, and culture. Starting in 2026 Energy Humanities will also be a new peer reviewed, open access journal with Open Library of Humanities. www.energyhumanities.ca
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Energy Humanities Official Website | Petrocultures
The Energy Humanities is an emerging field of study that aims to understand how energy shapes society. It uses techniques from the humanities to explore connections between technology, culture, and en...
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Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology @religion-ecology.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go we have come to our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings. - Wendell Berry, "Our Real Work"
Wendell Berry, writing at his desk with his feet up
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Tom Howarth @tomhowarth.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
When you move water from land into the oceans on a global scale, it has some pretty noticeable effects. What's curious, though, is that soil moisture loss goes almost unrecognised compared to other hydrological shifts. Much more work needed in this space. 🧪 🌎 www.sciencefocus.com/news/earths-...
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Something strange is happening to Earth’s rotation. Now we know why
Earth is wobbling more than it should. Scientists say massive water losses are to blame
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Sam Mickey @sammickey.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Bill McKibben reflects on the passing of Pope Francis and his enduring legacy open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...
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Pope Francis and the Sun
Perhaps the world's greatest environmental champion is dead
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Sam Mickey @sammickey.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
"we need to take time to think again about time…" - Ben Ware On Extinction: Beginning Again at the End
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Wild Women @wildwomen.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Mother, Creature, Kin: What We Learn from Nature's Mothers in a Time of Unraveling By Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder www.broadleafbooks.com/store/produc...
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Mother, Creature, Kin: What We Learn from Nature's Mothers in a Time of Unraveling
What does it mean to be a mother in an era of climate collapse? What do we learn from plants and creatures who mother at the edges of their world's unraveling? In luminous prose, Chelsea Steinauer-Scu...
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Sam Mickey @sammickey.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Phenomenology and Future Generations: Generativity, Justice, and Amor Mundi, edited by Matthias Fritsch, Ferdinando G. Menga, and Rebecca van der Post A conceptual toolkit for anyone concerned with environmental justice and climate ethics. sunypress.edu/Books/P/Phen...
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Phenomenology and Future Generations
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 12/04/2025
"For at least 600 yrs, residents marked the depth of winter by celebrating a natural phenomenon revered as the trail of a wandering god. But ...for the past 7 winters, the Miwatari has failed to appear because the lake didn’t freeze. This has happened only once before, half a millennium ago."
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In Japan, an Iceless Lake and an Absent God Sound an Ancient Warning (Gift Article)
For centuries, residents in central Japan have chronicled a mysterious natural phenomenon in winter. They see its disappearance as a bad omen.
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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
New episode of A Matter of Degrees! We talked with @cadavejones.bsky.social a former Insurance Commissioner about the LA fires. The climate crisis is breaking our insurance system -- but we fix it. Tune in and subscribe! degreespod.com/episodes/climate-crisis-breaking-insurance
"Insurance is the climate crisis canary in the coal mine and the canary is just about dead." - Dave Jones
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Sam Mickey @sammickey.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
“Hope” is the thing with feathers - That perches in the soul - And sings the tune without the words - And never stops - at all - -Emily Dickinson www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42889/...
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“Hope” is the thing with feathers
“Hope” is the thing with feathers - That perches in the soul - And sings the tune without the words - And never stops - at all - And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard - And sore must be the storm - T...
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Sam Mickey @sammickey.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack, a crack in everything That's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen, "Anthem" youtu.be/mX2xIW7Oa9c?...
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Leonard Cohen - Anthem
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Matt Parreira @mattparreira.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Decolonizing systems starts with listening, really listening, to those whose stories have been erased. By integrating these truths into policy, curriculum, and community spaces, we spark meaningful change that uplifts everyone.
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Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology @religion-ecology.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Integral Ecology in Action: A Decade of Laudato Si A conference (online and in person) hosted by the University of San Francisco April 10, 9:00AM-3:00PM Registration is free! www.usfca.edu/event/integr...
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Integral Ecology in Action: A Decade of Laudato Si | University of San FranciscoUniversity of San Francisco Logo
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Sam Mickey @sammickey.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Seems like a good time to remember that there is no such thing as "Western civilization" And the idea that European cultures are mainly Christian is laughable, especially in light of enduring influences from pre-Christian tribes (Nordic, Germanic, Celtic, etc.). www.theguardian.com/world/2016/n...
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There is no such thing as western civilisation | Kwame Anthony Appiah
The Long Read: The values of liberty, tolerance and rational inquiry are not the birthright of a single culture. In fact, the very notion of something called ‘western culture’ is a modern invention
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National Religious Partnership for the Environment @nrpe.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
NRPE statement on Zeldin's move to undo critical EPA clean water protections. There will be public opportunities to comment on these changes and demand #cleanwaterforall in the coming weeks - stay tuned! #Faith4Earth
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Sam Mickey @sammickey.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
One (Un)Like the Other: Rethinking Ethics, Empathy, and Transcendence from Husserl to Derrida Rethinking ethics and transcendence in light of the phenomenology of empathy and social ontology sunypress.edu/Books/O/One-...
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One (Un)Like the Other
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Timothy Harvie @timothyharvie.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
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Sam Mickey @sammickey.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
"Our body and mind are both two and one. We usually think that if something is not one, it is more than one; if it is not singular, it is plural. But in actual experience, ­our life is not only plural, but also singular. Each one of us is both dependent and in­de­pen­dent." - Shunryu Suzuki
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