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Posted onJanuary 11, 2023January 14, 2023freedom, habit, happiness, James, reality, self, transformation

Facing the New Year: Optimist or Pessimist?

by Dr. Norris Frederick  As you think about the coming year, or your life in general, are you an optimist or a pessimist?  Is it better to be one rather than the other?   Or…

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Posted onNovember 19, 2020December 29, 2020anxiety, awareness, beauty, Buddhism, freedom, habit, James, self, transformation

Not What I Expected

text and photography by Dr. Norris Frederick “The great point is that the possibilities are really here.  The issue is decided nowhere else than here and now.  That is what gives the palpitating reality to…

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Posted onOctober 8, 2020October 28, 2020awareness, beauty, habit, James

Seeing Things Anew

Text and Photos by Dr. Norris Frederick  “My experience is what I agree to attend to.”      — William James[1] As I awake one morning, I lie in bed thinking about the classes I…

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Posted onFebruary 2, 2019August 26, 2020anxiety, Buddhism, Epicurus, James, Zen Buddhism

Fixin’ Things

by Dr. Norris Frederick    My family preferred to deal with challenges and craziness with humor, thus the plaque my sister Virginia gave to me on a recent birthday, “Just remember: as far as everyone…

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Posted onSeptember 8, 2017January 16, 2022anxiety, death, James, religion, worldview

Healthy-Mindedness and the Sick Soul

By Dr. Norris Frederick Third and final in a series on death The recent solar eclipse was almost total here in Charlotte, and a large number of people gathered on the Queens University campus to…

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Posted onDecember 20, 2016September 20, 2022James, pluralism, religion

Still Teaching After All These Years

by Dr. Norris Frederick The fall semester – finally – has come to an end.  And even though I don’t have a real job – like welding, for example – I’m exhausted, just as I…

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