Discovering the Secret Path to Unleashing Your True Potential

 The Yielding Warrior is about the concept of yielding and how it can be applied to almost any area of life. The book dives into the three main directions of yielding: physical, mental, and emotional. You will learn how to break down and dissect the concept of yielding while learning how to build a set of life skills that can be applied to business, sports, education, music, art and relationships. Yielding has three areas of practice ritual, active, and philosophical based training applications. "The Yielding Warrior" helps you to understand why we use these different areas and how you can use them to create a life practice for yourself. The art of yielding has been practiced for centuries and in reality, everyone does it to some degree. As one of my old instructors once told me "it is easy to get an athlete to 85% of his or her potential the last 15% is always exponentially harder". The true beauty in the arts is always in the last 3-5% of your potential. As you watch someone like Michael Jordan play basketball or listen to music created by Johann Sebastian Bach you can appreciate their magical abilities and feel the energetic emotion emanating when they perform. Yielding helps us to be more aware of, and to nurture these subtleties that allow our passion to shine.

Jeff Paterson's book 

Annie Ernaux's Look at the Lights, My Love about Auchan Hypermarché Cergy

Recording her visits to a store near Paris for over a year, she captures the world that exists within its massive walls. Through Ernaux’s eyes, the superstore emerges as “a great human meeting place, a spectacle”—a flashy, technologically advanced incarnation of the ancient marketplace where capitalism, cultural production, and class converge, dictating our rhythms of desire. With her relentless powers of observation, Ernaux takes the measure of a place we thought we knew, calling us to question the experiences we overlook and to gaze more deeply into ordinary life. 

 

The saying "secrets transform into diamonds" suggests that 

hidden truths or undisclosed information, when brought to light or revealed, can ultimately result in something valuable or powerful.

This metaphor draws parallels between the formation of diamonds under intense pressure and heat, and the process by which concealed information can, through various circumstances, become something precious or impactful.

The exact phrasing "secrets transform into diamonds" is not found in the search results for novel titles containing "diamond" and "secret."

 

However, the quote is likely a metaphorical statement about secrets having value, and being revealed as something precious. The themes of secrets and diamonds are prominent in several works:

• The Famous Five series by Enid Blyton includes the novel Five on a Secret Trail, where the children likely uncover a secret that leads to an adventure involving a treasure hunt. In Five Go Off in a Caravan, the children's mother's past is hinted at, suggesting the possibility of a concealed past and hidden wealth.
• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas involves secrets, hidden treasure, and the theme of delayed gratification. A fellow prisoner, Abbé Faria, educates Edmond Dantès and informs him of a hidden treasure on Monte Cristo. This aligns with the theme of secrets eventually yielding valuable outcomes. After escaping, Dantès finds the treasure and uses his wealth to exact revenge, while also performing acts of generosity, hinting at the potential for secrets to be used for both positive and negative purposes.
• The Diamond of Darkhold by Jeanne DuPrau features a secret discovered by Lina and Doon that could change their lives. This secret, a forgotten technology to harness the power of the sun, highlights the idea that concealed knowledge can lead to breakthroughs and new opportunities.
• The Diamond Secret (Love Inspired Suspense) by Lenora Worth involves a search for a legendary chocolate diamond and a dangerous man. This could potentially connect secrets and diamonds in the context of the story's suspenseful plot. 

In conclusion, while the exact phrase might not be present, the concept it evokes is found within the themes of secrets and diamonds in various novels like The Famous Five, The Count of Monte Cristo, and The Diamond of Darkhold. 

myth of coal into diamond

Coals are just the solidified form of carbon, while diamonds are the crystallized form. All the carbon trapped inside the deepest layers of earth is turned into either coal or diamond.

The quote "secrets transform into luminous stars" appears in the novel 

Black Star Requiem Epilogue: The Final Echo by Jeffery J. Davis. 

This novel is the concluding part of an epic saga exploring themes of survival, power, identity, and the fragility of civilization in a galaxy on the brink of collapse. The main character, Seren Vael, is the last remaining member of an ancient and powerful collective, the Choir, and embarks on a journey to uncover the hidden truths about her people and the fall of their empire. 

an AI way to blog anew?

 

The phrase "He became so good at keeping his life secret, he kept it secret from himself" is a thought-provoking idea exploring self-deception and the lengths to which individuals might go to compartmentalize or deny aspects of their own lives

While this exact wording isn't directly attributed to a specific novel in the search results, it aligns with concepts explored in works like George Orwell's 1984, particularly the quote: "If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself". This quote from 1984 captures the essence of the sentiment in the user's inquiry, highlighting the psychological process of internalizing and suppressing secrets even from one's conscious awareness. 

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August 2

 Was it yesterday's depression and last night's school anxiety dreams that have me thinking I will cave in and subscribe to The NY Times?  Fell into looking up stuff on Compton Wynyates, Ronale Manor and Anselm Hall.  Lots more no seems to pop up online.  Or my personal algorhythms are in tune.  

Finished reading, looking through (at the final few pages) Guyotat's Coma.  Two books by him are enough.  Now I will Google "how to enjoy reading Lobo Antunes" to see if AI can give a hand here.

Ramps.  We bought that fine ramp with handrails in Albuquerque last year.  Now in the garage we have a shiny new foldable ramp, 7 foot long, to use with the new stair climbing chair due to be installed this Wednesday.  The Era of Ramps thrust upon us.  

not bad actually ---  To enjoy reading António Lobo Antunes's books, it's helpful to embrace their unique style, which often features multiple, overlapping narratives, stream-of-consciousness, and a focus on memory and subjective experience.Antunes's writing can be challenging due to its dense prose and shifting perspectives, but understanding his techniques and the context of his work can enhance the reading experience. 

Here's a more detailed guide:

somehow the text would not copy and paste well.  Is that by design?  

Just noticed this blog goes all the way back to 2006 which had 115 entries.  Most for any year.  Three years after Virginia's catastrophic event, in 2003.  So at least the blog has some sort of presence as a chronicle.  When one does is the event automatically reported to Google and the blog removed?  Or can any forensic net nerd find anything forever?  

sent this to Phil earlier ---  wmhuo168 (@William Huo) posted: Milton Friedman didn’t just destroy public education. He rewired how Americans think about everything from housing to health to patriotism.  

to which he replied. 

I think that part of the attraction is the mathematics of a strictly economic view.   It's "econmaththink."  One uses calculus to arrive at the "ideal solution" of any and all economic questions.  I'm very familiar with it and, if not for Exeter and the Peace Corps, might be trapped in it.  Liberalism seems like sloppy thinking to people attracted by econmath's definite goals and answers, which Friedman definitely was.   So were all my fellow econ majors at Brown.   They are still that way.  Which is why I get along best with a Brown classmate who majored in history and later went to law school but whose Jewish decency and background in history enable him to avoid being trapped in the restrictive  lawthink.  Another think mode that I don't like is militarythink.  I find the best generals and admirals are not trapped in militarythink but most generals, colonels, majors, captains, lieutenants and nearly all sergeants are.   P 

Virginia is now going into her second Iris Murdoch novel!!  gasp. her first was The Sea, the Sea, finished a few days ago.  She finished watching Indian Summers yesterday.  

Traveling family returns late tomorrow night and starts Theater Camp bright and early Monday morning. 

Might be that this house demands, commands, writing in this blog as extension, continuation, of "work"---the work we did here for 40 plus years as teachers and scribes and clerks and copyists and scribblers.  Artists, actors, producers.  Content Influencers, content creators.  Whole host of new terms by which to measure lives beyond coffee spoons.  Or was it tea spoons?