<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>AK Dojo de Levittown</title><link>http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/</link><description></description><copyright>Copyright 2009 aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com</copyright><generator></generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:21:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><image><title>AK Dojo de Levittown</title><url>http://server1.blog-city.com/images/bc_v5_logo_small.gif</url><link>http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>The journey.....</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/the_journey_1.htm</guid><link>http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/the_journey_1.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:21:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Fjourney%5F1</comments><dc:creator>Myriam Cedres</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;&quot; When you are on a journey, and the end keeps getting further and further, then you realize that the real end is the journey.&quot;&nbsp; - Karlfried Graf Durkheim]]></description></item><item><title>Stories....</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/stories_2.htm</guid><link>http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/stories_2.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:57:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=stories%5F2</comments><dc:creator>Myriam Cedres</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;Why are stories so important?. What are the stories we say ourselves?. We tell others?. Once again, why is this so important?. Sensei Myriam]]></description></item><item><title>If I say &quot;yes&quot;.... or if I say &quot;no&quot;.....</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/if_i_say_yes_or_if_i_say_no.htm</guid><link>http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/if_i_say_yes_or_if_i_say_no.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=if%5Fi%5Fsay%5Fyes%5For%5Fif%5Fi%5Fsay%5Fno</comments><dc:creator>Myriam Cedres</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;What is it that is important?....&quot;A &quot;No&quot; uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a &quot;Yes&quot; merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.&quot; -Mohandas Gandhi]]></description></item><item><title>Only if I let them..... some words about &quot;influence&quot;</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/only_if_i_let_them_some_words_about_influence.htm</guid><link>http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/only_if_i_let_them_some_words_about_influence.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=only%5Fif%5Fi%5Flet%5Fthem%5Fsome%5Fwords%5Fabout%5Finfluence</comments><dc:creator>Myriam Cedres</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;Here is a little but very important story I received today, This little bird had his wing over his eye and he was crying.&nbsp;The Owl said to the bird, &quot; You are crying.&quot;&quot;Yes&quot;, said the little bird, and he pulled his wing a]]></description><category>influence</category></item><item><title>The games we play......and intimacy</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/the_games_we_play.htm</guid><link>http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/the_games_we_play.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Fgames%5Fwe%5Fplay</comments><dc:creator>Myriam Cedres</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;&quot; Games are a compromise between intimacyand keeping intimacy away.&quot; -Eric Berne]]></description><category>intimacy</category></item><item><title>Forgiveness....</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/forgiveness.htm</guid><link>http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/forgiveness.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=forgiveness</comments><dc:creator>Myriam Cedres</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;&quot; Forgiveness doesn&#39;t change the past ,but it does enlarged the future.&quot; -Paul Boese]]></description><category>forgiveness</category></item><item><title>It&apos;s all about power....</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/its_all_about_power.htm</guid><link>http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/its_all_about_power.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=its%5Fall%5Fabout%5Fpower</comments><dc:creator>Myriam Cedres</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;&quot; Each person designs his own life, freedom gives him the power to carry on his own designs,and power gives the freedom to interfere with the designs of others.&quot;&nbsp; -Eric Berne &nbsp;May we all pay attention of the games we play...]]></description></item><item><title>Too small for me.....</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/too_small_for_me.htm</guid><link>http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/too_small_for_me.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=too%5Fsmall%5Ffor%5Fme</comments><dc:creator>Myriam Cedres</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;&quot;...Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet  confinement of your aloneness to learn anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you.&quot;  -David Whyte]]></description></item><item><title>I know fear......</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/i_know_fear.htm</guid><link>http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/i_know_fear.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:07:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=i%5Fknow%5Ffear</comments><dc:creator>Myriam Cedres</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;&quot;I know fearI have looked into it&#39;s eyesand I found myself&nbsp;looking back.&quot; -mcr &nbsp;]]></description></item><item><title>My life.....</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/what_i_think.htm</guid><link>http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/what_i_think.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:11:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=what%5Fi%5Fthink</comments><dc:creator>Myriam Cedres</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;Hear these words and what they say.Let them stiryour soul.Awake to what they tell,the say&nbsp;and call forth.To live your lifeand no one else&#39;s&nbsp;path.]]></description></item><item><title>We recreate each other....</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/we_recreate_each_other.htm</guid><link>http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/we_recreate_each_other.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=we%5Frecreate%5Feach%5Fother</comments><dc:creator>Myriam Cedres</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;&quot; We are one, after all, you and I. Together we suffer, together exist, and forever will recreate each other.&quot; - Pierre Teilhard De Chardin]]></description></item><item><title>Aikido&apos;s purpose... stands on its own!</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/aikidos_purpose_stands_on_its_own.htm</guid><link>http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/aikidos_purpose_stands_on_its_own.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:03:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=aikidos%5Fpurpose%5Fstands%5Fon%5Fits%5Fown</comments><dc:creator>Myriam Cedres</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;&quot; Aikido is practice that stands on its own. It has its reason d&#39;etre. There are a million people world wide practicing Aikido, more in countries like the US and France than in Japan by all accounts. It would certainly benefit from an]]></description></item><item><title>&quot;.. the wrong idea about me....&quot;</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/_the_wrong_idea_about_me.htm</guid><link>http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/_the_wrong_idea_about_me.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=%5Fthe%5Fwrong%5Fidea%5Fabout%5Fme</comments><dc:creator>Myriam Cedres</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;We all have ideas about things, events and persons. In one way or another we make evaluations and or judgment according to our own particular perspective. Point of view or standpoint, would be similar places to interpret this we know as our rea]]></description></item><item><title>A boot....</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/a_boot.htm</guid><link>http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/a_boot.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=a%5Fboot</comments><dc:creator>Myriam Cedres</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;&nbsp;Sometimes more times than notthings happen with a cause.Not planned, not searchedand uninvitedgrace visits us in the more unexpected of forms. In this case...a boot! -mcr]]></description></item><item><title>Level five leaders.....</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/paradoxes.htm</guid><link>http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/paradoxes.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:54:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=paradoxes</comments><dc:creator>Myriam Cedres</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;&quot;...timid and ferocious,shy and fearless.&quot;]]></description></item><item><title>Great!</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/great.htm</guid><link>http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/great.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:13:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=great</comments><dc:creator>Myriam Cedres</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;&quot;How great to see...really see.Beyond what I feelbeyond I fear.This space in frontthe small behindmoving alonga new kind of &quot;]]></description></item><item><title>What is it about...?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/what_is_it_about.htm</guid><link>http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/what_is_it_about.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=what%5Fis%5Fit%5Fabout</comments><dc:creator>Myriam Cedres</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;&quot;It is not about what you do...but, about what you are.&quot; -mcr]]></description></item><item><title>What to say....</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/what_to_say.htm</guid><link>http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/what_to_say.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=what%5Fto%5Fsay</comments><dc:creator>Myriam Cedres</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;&quot; If you must speak.... ask a question.&quot; -Denis Waitley]]></description></item><item><title>A stroke of luck...?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/a_stroke_of_luck.htm</guid><link>http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/a_stroke_of_luck.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:29:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=a%5Fstroke%5Fof%5Fluck</comments><dc:creator>Myriam Cedres</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;&quot;In the 1920, when Ernest Hemingway was working hard to perfect his craft, he lost a suitcase containing all his manuscripts.&nbsp; The devastated Hemingway couldn&#39;t conceive of redoing his work. He could think only of the months he&#3]]></description></item><item><title>A bad place to be....</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/a_bad_place_to_be.htm</guid><link>http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/a_bad_place_to_be.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=a%5Fbad%5Fplace%5Fto%5Fbe</comments><dc:creator>Myriam Cedres</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;&quot; When you see yourself doing something badly and nobody&#39;s bothering to tell you anymore, that&#39;s a bad place to be. You may not want to hear it, but your critics are often the ones telling you they still love you and care about you]]></description></item><item><title>Basics....</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/basics.htm</guid><link>http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/basics.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:48:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=basics</comments><dc:creator>Myriam Cedres</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;&quot;Fundamentals, fundamentals, fundamentals.You&#39;ve got to get the fundamentals down because otherwise the fancy stuff isn&#39;t going to work.&quot;-Randy Pausch This is another way to say,Basics, basics, basics. You&#39;ve got to get th]]></description></item><item><title>The way of the sword.....</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/the_way_of_the_sword.htm</guid><link>http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/the_way_of_the_sword.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Fway%5Fof%5Fthe%5Fsword</comments><dc:creator>Myriam Cedres</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;What is it today?. For what use is it today in the presence of firepower and guns all around us?. Let&#39;s see some words from the book The Art of Japanese Swordsmanship,&nbsp; A Manual of Eishin-Ryu Iaido:&quot; Iai does not enable one to kil]]></description></item><item><title>A world that no longer exists....</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/a_world_that_no_longer_exists.htm</guid><link>http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/a_world_that_no_longer_exists.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=a%5Fworld%5Fthat%5Fno%5Flonger%5Fexists</comments><dc:creator>Myriam Cedres</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;&quot;In times of change learners inherit the earth,while the learned find themselves beautifullyequipped to deal&nbsp; with a world that no longer exists.&quot;-Eric Hoffer]]></description><category>change</category></item><item><title>Waste?....</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/waste.htm</guid><link>http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/waste.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:06:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=waste</comments><dc:creator>Myriam Cedres</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;&quot; Nothing is a waste of time if you use your experience wisely.&quot; - Auguste Rodin &nbsp;Simple truth. Isn&#39;t it?. So hard to grasp and make it real sometimes. Everything.... EVERYTHING, is useful.&nbsp; There&#39;s no waste of time,]]></description></item><item><title>Less...</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/less.htm</guid><link>http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/less.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:48:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=less</comments><dc:creator>Myriam Cedres</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;Sometimes it&#39;s not what we have what completes or makes us whole, but what we do not have. And now I find myself with less and less and the mystery has space to walk up forth. &quot; A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when ther]]></description></item></channel></rss>