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meaning by design

lucy oliver

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Some traditional ways to dive deep and find principles to guide everyday life:

 

Meditation, properly instructed, is an indispensable foundation for taking the reins of one's own destiny and for designing a life with purpose and depth.

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Seership helps to see more deeply into the nature of everyday life and actions, and investigate the principles of a meaningful philosophy to live by.

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Symbolic Encounters explores personal symbols and metaphors, helping to work through problems, find the inspiration for a new project or reveal new perspective. 

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 My own story began with an introduction to meditation by an inspirational teacher in 1975 during post-graduate work at the University of Oxford.  

Oxford Mystic autobiography
Lucy in Oxford 1975

DIARIES OF A YOUNG MYSTIC

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An extract from the Introduction:

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      "For many, the ‘twenties’ are characteristically turbulent years, full of experiments, experiences, failures and successes in the quest for a firm identity and role in life. I had a clear inner trajectory which could be characterized as searching for ‘Meaning’, ‘ultimate meaning’, or ‘God’ (though I was wary of dogma and received ideas).

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         I was looking for those intimations of experience beyond the personal, like ripples on a pond from some yet invisible subterranean activity. Initially, feeling my way without other guidance, by writing the diaries I had a sounding-board, a dialogue with self, part of a process to fashion a reasonably coherent worldview and identity.

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          I wanted to follow these intimations, but it was still a lightbulb moment when I realised that there was a way of ordering these scattered intimations into a structured whole which allowed for evolution. Order is a creative force. A pile of bricks becomes a house when they are organised, utilising the laws of space and form to realise an aim and design."

     

Young Diaries of Oxford mystic
Patterns of Life and death
Enneagram in twelve sigils
Meditation for creativity
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