Open to Interpretation

Anna-Marie

Senior Research Skills 2

[1.]

The views expressed in this presentation are subject to change and are not meant to offend anyone. I’m confused. And I change my mind a lot.

1. Thing that interests me

People

“Then it was as if I suddenly saw the secret

beauty of their hearts, the depths where neither sin nor desire nor self-knowledge can

reach, the core of their reality, the person that each was in the eyes of the Divine.

If only they could all see themselves as they really are.

If we could see each other that way all the time, there would be no more war, no

more hatred, no more cruelty, no more greed.” -Thomas

Merton

And why?

[2.]

2. Thing that interests me

The Simple Life/ Adventure“A man does not begin to be alive until he has lost

himself; Until he has released the anxious grip which he normally holds

upon his life, his property, his reputation and position. It is the

irreducible truth in monkish idea of “holy

poverty” , of the way of life where there are no strings attached, in which-because all is lost-there is nothing to lose; In which there is a

kind of exhilaration of a kind of freedom that is

poetically likened to the birds and the wind, or the

clouds drifting in the boundless sky.” -Alan

Watts

And why?

[3.]

[4.]

3. Thing that interests me

Philosophy/ Religion

•Perform a Hajj

•Learn Buddhism from Tibetan monks

•Live with a religious order of Catholic nuns

• + more

And why?

[5.]

Where do I want to be next year?

Volunteering(making a positive difference in someone’s life)

•Mental Health Hospital

•Homeless Shelter

•Disaster Relief Effort

•Old-Folk Home

Where do I want to be in 5 years?

On an Adventure!

•National Geographic Journalist

•Follow my favorite band throughout their tour

•Live in a “Tent City”

[6.]

Where do I want to be in 10 years?

Level 5Of the Theory of Positive Dinsintergration

(A theory of personality development discovered by Kazimierz Dabrowski)

“Passing beyond all that can be understood both spiritually and naturally, the soul will desire with all its heart to some to what in this life cannot

be known.” -Saint John of the Cross

[7.]

1st step

Honesty“My understanding of truth can change from day to day

and my commitment must be to truth rather than to

consistency.”-Ram Dass

[8.]

2nd step

Learn (read/write)

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3rd step

Learn (experience)

“How vain it is to sit down and write when you have not stood up to live.”

-Henry David Thoreau

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