There’s an inverse spiritual and metaphysical relationship between thousands of desperate people piling up at America’s southern border, and thousands of shipping containers of consumer goods piled up on sea…
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“Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.” John Keats It was raining so lightly late this afternoon that you…
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In the past week, I had two long talks over zoom and tea with a librarian at University of California, Davis, a man who has started ‘tea, meditation and dialogue’…
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Renewed vigor and deeper understanding often follow a period of mourning. With the death of America and the collapse of the international order, awakening human beings must move to fill…
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Feeling rather low after staying up past midnight watching the news, I stepped into the backyard to look at the stars before going to bed. There was a stupendously clear…
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These days it’s hard to tell whether a commentator given to exaggeration is speaking with hyperbole. Nothing surprises anymore, and everything seems leveled out by stultifying sameness. Take this sentence…
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There was nary a man-made noise as I listened with delight at streamside to the gently flowing current and various birds. Unseen, passive watchfulness gathered undirected attention. An hour passed…
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Nature abhors a vacuum, and as American culture has degraded beyond recognition and repair, an entire industry of retreat centers, yoga studios, meditation teachers and life coaches has sprung up.…