To a philosopher, a statement like the following is a gold mine: “According to quantum mechanics, particles do not take on formal properties until they are measured or observed in…
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thoughts on life
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Despite the recent floods in southern California that may foretell a hellacious El Nino winter, traveling from a state where water has become scarce to a state where rain is…
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A long line at the security check in the Sacramento airport snaked around the cloth barricades even before the first glint of dawn had appeared. Hundreds of frequent or infrequent…
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Questioner 1: Time is one of the most difficult problems in philosophy, science and psychology. What is time, and why do we live by it, rather than in the present,…
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Sometimes I wonder how anyone inwardly survives in this world without meditating. But when I hear people talk about their ‘practice,’ I realize we’re not talking about the same thing…
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Recently I heard a hospice chaplain, who has counseled many dying people, say that he’s seeing many more “bad deaths.” I used to think that most people came to terms…
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If the universe is infinitely good, and intelligence and love infuse the cosmos, then how did evil arise?
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There have been too many encounters with animals in nature, too many non-coincidental and propitious moments, not to heed them when they occur.