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		<title>Attentiveness &#8211; A Seed of Excellence</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[To be or not to be…that is a famous question. I am convinced that an important way to be is to be attentive. As the monk Thomas Merton wrote, “By being attentive, we can find ourselves engulfed in such happiness that it cannot be explained.” We need to be attentive humans for one another and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Faith &#8211; A Seed of Excellence</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;In genuine cultivation of practice, in the end there is just one road: carrying out vows.&#8221;  Master Nan Huau Chin expresses my beliefs about faith well.  A belief system that is not practiced has little value.  My wife and I were talking recently about  marriage.  Like most couples, we wonder [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hope &#8211; A Seed of Excellence</title>
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		<description><![CDATA["Dum spiro, spero.  As long as I breathe, I hope."   That Latin proverb emphasizes the importance of hope.]]></description>
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		<title>Seeds of Excellence &#8211; Thirteen at First</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A packet of cards is used to represent my values.  These values are what I think are necessary for me to sow seeds of excellence professionally and personally.   I selected a dozen, although there are many more.  These had particular meaning when selected and shared with others in 2004.]]></description>
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		<title>Struggle as a Value</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 19:40:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several years ago, I identified values for my life and work.  In a presentation, I called them seeds of excellence.  One I omitted might be struggle.]]></description>
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