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We’re excited that you’ve joined the conversation! At HMU, we want to continue the great authors’ conversations in a contemporary context, and this blog will help us do that. We look back to Aristotle and the early philosophers who used reason and discourse to gain wisdom and now we endeavor to do the same every day.

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June 17, 2016 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. “To be, or not to be: that is the question.” – Shakespeare, Hamlet Last week, we discussed the practice of being fully present within an actual moment, whereas today we will discover what a number of authors say about the mind’s ability to …

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October 9, 2015 “there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so” Our modern calender lists two basic reference points: BCE and AD. If we were to create a new calendar for the modern era, perhaps we could write it as before and after Shakespeare. A playwright whose works influenced every author …

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