Meditations

At the little creek at the edge of town, the wind blew and the clouds flew, but there was hardly a flutter of thought. Some days, like this one, meditation…

I said in a recent column that if Bernie Sanders had spoken of the urgent necessity of psychological revolution rather than incessantly calling for a political revolution, he would be…

On the same day I wrote my last column about an experience I had in Russia 27 years ago, a young Russian couple, born around that time, came up as…

The most difficult things in the world are to understand oneself, one’s intimates, and one’s country, in that order. This concerns my country, the United States of America, which is…

The London Bridge mayhem, coming on the heels of the Manchester murders, sicken the heart and pain the soul. Is there an adequate response in the individual? Yes, though it…

It still surprises, after many years meditating, how doing nothing but simply quieting and emptying the mind in nature is the most fruitful and important thing one can do.

With regard to Trump and his toadies, we are now in the 9th circle of hell, where Virgil bade Dante: Non ragionam di lor, ma guarde e passa—“Let us think…

It’s funny listening to a theoretical physicist muse on death. Perhaps it’s like listening to a religious philosopher ponder quarks and bosons. The difference being that the physicist’s special knowledge…