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College Essay Boot Camp: Don’t Give Your Mind a Cramp!

February 20, 2014 by Sara Nolan

College Essay Boot Camp is all the rage right now: go ahead, Google it. "Boot camp" prevalence implies that your admissions essay, like world domination, is not going to happen if you don't get all militaristic about it. But get this: Essay Intensive brings you a nouveau college essay boot camp model: with us, you figure out ways to respect and maximize what you've already got going on so intensely that you wind up with a product (an essay!) only love could have made. Make love, they say after all, not war.  We buy that trade-off. Because the following is not where you thought you'd turn for essay-writing, is it?  Continue Reading …

Filed Under: Integrity, Practice, State of Mind Tagged With: Boot camp, college essay, love

On Destiny and Saying YES in Your Essay

October 8, 2013 by Martha Oatis

In Taoist philosophy, it is understood that each of us is born into the world with a curriculum. This curriculum is a set of challenges and themes and things our souls are here to learn. We do this kind of learning simply by moving through our lives. Just being yourself is following this curriculum. It is said that our souls are a piece of the sky scooped out by the big dipper.  Continue Reading …

Filed Under: Destiny, Integrity, Practice, Questions, State of Mind, Wisdom Tagged With: Destiny, Listening, Philosophy, State of Mind, Taosism, Writing

Because I Myself Was Still Eating Sugar

September 27, 2013 by Sara Nolan

Integrity among monkeys

A mother brought her young son to Mahatma Gandhi.  Please, Gandhiji, she begged.  My son eats so much sugar.  I cannot get him to stop.  Please, tell my son to stop eating sugar.  Gandhi nodded.  The truly wise ones usually take a substantial pause before responding to go within for a reality check.  Then he said: OK, come back in a month.  And that was a solution? Because you have to listen to what you’re told when you ask Gandhi for advice, or so I imagine—it’s not like asking a question on a forum on Yahoo groups—the mother left with her son, a bit baffled. One month later she dragged him back in.  There was powdered sugar on the boy’s chin, frosting on the sleeve of his shirt, and chocolate stain near his belly button.  Clearly her techniques were ineffective—the boy was wearing his rebuff as a military decoration.  She stood the boy in front of Gandhi’s chair.  Gandhiji, she said, desperately.  I brought my son back, just like you told me to.  Please tell him to stop eating so much sugar.  Continue Reading …

Filed Under: Integrity, Practice, State of Mind, Teachers, Wisdom Tagged With: advice, gandhi, hypocrisy, integrity, practice, teachers

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