Because there is no design and Designer in the universe does not mean the universe is a machine. Because atoms exist does not mean the universe is composed of discrete…
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thoughts on life
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The elites of society are not inherently corrupt and incompetent. They could have told the American people the truth after their complicity with the Bush Administration’s evils in invading Iraq,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.