Catholicism

Randomness is part of nature, but where humans are concerned, I don’t believe in coincidences. I’ve been encountering a lot of Catholic people lately. Since I didn’t begin rising as…

“The mystical stream has always been an important part of the human experience and the source from which belief systems emerge.”

I’m neither Christian nor Buddhist, but while recovering from food poisoning that had brought me within two days of death, I met an old Chinese woman that seemed to commune…

Nature envelops one on a rainy day in spring more than on a sunny one. Even in a narrow strip of municipal parkland, the earth returns and belongs to its…

The ancient Romans had terms for a duality that persists to this day. They referred to ”vita contemplativa” versus ”vita activa” — the contemplative life vs. the active life.

“The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture. At the beginning of the journey to the next world, one’s education and culture…

Thoughts and emotions arise and pass by like leaves and twigs on the water. Watching them without interference, without trying to do anything about them, the mind quiets and the…

“60 Minutes,” one of America’s last remaining bulwarks of the status quo, devoted a full fawning hour to Pope Francis Sunday, between Christmas and New Years. Can this media-canonized pope…