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		<title>Attentiveness &#8211; A Seed of Excellence</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[To be or not to beâ€¦that is a famous question. I am convinced that an important way to be is to be attentive. As the monk Thomas Merton wrote, â€œBy being attentive, we can find ourselves engulfed in such happiness that it cannot be explained.â€ 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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		<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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