<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xml:lang="en"><title>AK Dojo de Levittown</title><rights>Copyright 2009 aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com</rights><subtitle></subtitle><author><name></name></author><updated>2009-11-22T11:21:00Z</updated><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/"/><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/index.rss"/><id>tag:aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com,2009:1</id><entry><id>tag:aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com,2009-11-22:links.412191500</id><title>The journey.....</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/the_journey_1.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/the_journey_1.htm"/><dc:creator>Myriam Cedres</dc:creator><author><name>Myriam Cedres</name></author><updated>2009-11-22T11:21:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-22T11:21:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com,2009-11-21:links.412191486</id><title>Stories....</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/stories_2.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/stories_2.htm"/><dc:creator>Myriam Cedres</dc:creator><author><name>Myriam Cedres</name></author><updated>2009-11-21T11:57:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-21T11:57:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com,2009-11-20:links.412191118</id><title>If I say &quot;yes&quot;.... or if I say &quot;no&quot;.....</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/if_i_say_yes_or_if_i_say_no.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/if_i_say_yes_or_if_i_say_no.htm"/><dc:creator>Myriam Cedres</dc:creator><author><name>Myriam Cedres</name></author><updated>2009-11-20T05:00:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-20T05:00:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com,2009-11-19:links.412191081</id><title>Only if I let them..... some words about &quot;influence&quot;</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/only_if_i_let_them_some_words_about_influence.htm"><![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]]></content><dc:subject>influence</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/only_if_i_let_them_some_words_about_influence.htm"/><dc:creator>Myriam Cedres</dc:creator><author><name>Myriam Cedres</name></author><updated>2009-11-19T05:00:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-19T05:00:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com,2009-11-18:links.412191065</id><title>The games we play......and intimacy</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/the_games_we_play.htm"><![CDATA[&nbsp;&quot; Games are a compromise between intimacyand keeping intimacy away.&quot; -Eric Berne]]></content><dc:subject>intimacy</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/the_games_we_play.htm"/><dc:creator>Myriam Cedres</dc:creator><author><name>Myriam Cedres</name></author><updated>2009-11-18T05:00:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-18T05:00:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com,2009-11-17:links.412190823</id><title>Forgiveness....</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/forgiveness.htm"><![CDATA[&nbsp;&quot; Forgiveness doesn&#39;t change the past ,but it does enlarged the future.&quot; -Paul Boese]]></content><dc:subject>forgiveness</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/forgiveness.htm"/><dc:creator>Myriam Cedres</dc:creator><author><name>Myriam Cedres</name></author><updated>2009-11-17T05:00:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-17T05:00:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com,2009-11-16:links.412190453</id><title>It&apos;s all about power....</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/its_all_about_power.htm"><![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...]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/its_all_about_power.htm"/><dc:creator>Myriam Cedres</dc:creator><author><name>Myriam Cedres</name></author><updated>2009-11-16T05:00:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-16T05:00:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com,2009-11-15:links.412190281</id><title>Too small for me.....</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/too_small_for_me.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/too_small_for_me.htm"/><dc:creator>Myriam Cedres</dc:creator><author><name>Myriam Cedres</name></author><updated>2009-11-15T05:00:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-15T05:00:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com,2009-11-14:links.412190276</id><title>I know fear......</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/i_know_fear.htm"><![CDATA[&nbsp;&quot;I know fearI have looked into it&#39;s eyesand I found myself&nbsp;looking back.&quot; -mcr &nbsp;]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/i_know_fear.htm"/><dc:creator>Myriam Cedres</dc:creator><author><name>Myriam Cedres</name></author><updated>2009-11-14T12:07:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-14T12:07:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com,2009-11-13:links.412190273</id><title>My life.....</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/what_i_think.htm"><![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.]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/what_i_think.htm"/><dc:creator>Myriam Cedres</dc:creator><author><name>Myriam Cedres</name></author><updated>2009-11-13T17:11:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-13T17:11:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com,2009-11-12:links.412190009</id><title>We recreate each other....</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/we_recreate_each_other.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/we_recreate_each_other.htm"/><dc:creator>Myriam Cedres</dc:creator><author><name>Myriam Cedres</name></author><updated>2009-11-12T05:00:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-12T05:00:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com,2009-11-11:links.412189882</id><title>Aikido&apos;s purpose... stands on its own!</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/aikidos_purpose_stands_on_its_own.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/aikidos_purpose_stands_on_its_own.htm"/><dc:creator>Myriam Cedres</dc:creator><author><name>Myriam Cedres</name></author><updated>2009-11-11T16:03:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-11T16:03:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com,2009-11-10:links.412189876</id><title>&quot;.. the wrong idea about me....&quot;</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/_the_wrong_idea_about_me.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/_the_wrong_idea_about_me.htm"/><dc:creator>Myriam Cedres</dc:creator><author><name>Myriam Cedres</name></author><updated>2009-11-10T05:00:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-10T05:00:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com,2009-11-09:links.412189816</id><title>A boot....</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/a_boot.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/a_boot.htm"/><dc:creator>Myriam Cedres</dc:creator><author><name>Myriam Cedres</name></author><updated>2009-11-09T05:00:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-09T05:00:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com,2009-11-08:links.412189771</id><title>Level five leaders.....</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/paradoxes.htm"><![CDATA[&nbsp;&quot;...timid and ferocious,shy and fearless.&quot;]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/paradoxes.htm"/><dc:creator>Myriam Cedres</dc:creator><author><name>Myriam Cedres</name></author><updated>2009-11-08T12:54:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-08T12:54:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com,2009-11-07:links.412189684</id><title>Great!</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/great.htm"><![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;]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/great.htm"/><dc:creator>Myriam Cedres</dc:creator><author><name>Myriam Cedres</name></author><updated>2009-11-07T12:13:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-07T12:13:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com,2009-11-07:links.412189384</id><title>What is it about...?</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/what_is_it_about.htm"><![CDATA[&nbsp;&quot;It is not about what you do...but, about what you are.&quot; -mcr]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/what_is_it_about.htm"/><dc:creator>Myriam Cedres</dc:creator><author><name>Myriam Cedres</name></author><updated>2009-11-07T05:00:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-07T05:00:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com,2009-11-06:links.412189247</id><title>What to say....</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/what_to_say.htm"><![CDATA[&nbsp;&quot; If you must speak.... ask a question.&quot; -Denis Waitley]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/what_to_say.htm"/><dc:creator>Myriam Cedres</dc:creator><author><name>Myriam Cedres</name></author><updated>2009-11-06T05:00:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-06T05:00:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com,2009-11-05:links.412189245</id><title>A stroke of luck...?</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/a_stroke_of_luck.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/a_stroke_of_luck.htm"/><dc:creator>Myriam Cedres</dc:creator><author><name>Myriam Cedres</name></author><updated>2009-11-05T11:29:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-05T11:29:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com,2009-11-04:links.412189108</id><title>A bad place to be....</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/a_bad_place_to_be.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/a_bad_place_to_be.htm"/><dc:creator>Myriam Cedres</dc:creator><author><name>Myriam Cedres</name></author><updated>2009-11-04T05:00:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-04T05:00:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com,2009-11-03:links.412189107</id><title>Basics....</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/basics.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/basics.htm"/><dc:creator>Myriam Cedres</dc:creator><author><name>Myriam Cedres</name></author><updated>2009-11-03T14:48:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-03T14:48:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com,2009-11-02:links.412188864</id><title>The way of the sword.....</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/the_way_of_the_sword.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/the_way_of_the_sword.htm"/><dc:creator>Myriam Cedres</dc:creator><author><name>Myriam Cedres</name></author><updated>2009-11-02T05:00:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-02T05:00:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com,2009-11-01:links.412188805</id><title>A world that no longer exists....</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/a_world_that_no_longer_exists.htm"><![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]]></content><dc:subject>change</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/a_world_that_no_longer_exists.htm"/><dc:creator>Myriam Cedres</dc:creator><author><name>Myriam Cedres</name></author><updated>2009-11-01T05:00:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-01T05:00:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com,2009-10-31:links.412188803</id><title>Waste?....</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/waste.htm"><![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,]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/waste.htm"/><dc:creator>Myriam Cedres</dc:creator><author><name>Myriam Cedres</name></author><updated>2009-10-31T11:06:00Z</updated><published>2009-10-31T11:06:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com,2009-10-30:links.412188731</id><title>Less...</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/less.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://aikidojodelevittown.blog-city.com/less.htm"/><dc:creator>Myriam Cedres</dc:creator><author><name>Myriam Cedres</name></author><updated>2009-10-30T17:48:00Z</updated><published>2009-10-30T17:48:00Z</published></entry></feed>