Marcus aka Gregory Maidman
1 min readFeb 14, 2023

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I agree with one caveat. I have learned that excitement can lead me to make not the best decisions if I act too quickly. I have been appropriately cautioned to practice discernment over resonance. If the excitement lasts while I sit with the decision long enough to make sure it's not just an emotional reaction as opposed to an unadulterated feeling, then that is a good direction for me to take.

I couple of years ago I responded to the prompt "The keys to discovering the answers you seek" with this tanka:

"Transformative signs

Spiritual decoding

Impulse resonates

Discernment confirmation

Alignment defeats bias"

My thoughts behind the poem are here: https://medium.com/know-thyself-heal-thyself/your-soul-is-the-whole-world-7a149c7602ad The subtitle is "Two tanka poems evoking that quote from Siddhartha by my favorite and most life-influencing author, Hermann Hesse"

That emotions differ from feelings and that the heart is the broadcaster and receiver of feelings, is a concept I read recently in this White Feather piece: https://medium.com/grab-a-slice/we-are-broadcasters-35b357da93ad

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Marcus aka Gregory Maidman
Marcus aka Gregory Maidman

Written by Marcus aka Gregory Maidman

Living 17,043rd human life. I am Marcus (universal name) or you may call me Greg; a deep thinker; an explorer of ideas and the mind.

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