A magnificent hawk—perhaps an eagle—circled three times high above the stream. Shortly thereafter, a ‘kite’ appeared, fluttering in the distance over the fields to the north, barely visible through the…
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thoughts on life
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A homeless fellow has been encamped across from the meditation spot along Little Chico Creek, which only a few years ago marked the periphery of this town.
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Memory doesn’t just permeate our consciousness; it is our consciousness. And when the movement of psychological memory stops, consciousness has a completely different quality.
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One of the best studies of good and evil by an American writer is Herman Melville’s “Billy Budd.” I highly recommend the novella, as well as an excellent 1962 film…
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The first tool use by hominids—the progenitors of modern humans—has been pushed back from 2.6 million years ago to 3.2 million years. We humans are now living in the pridefully…
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Auschwitz, a name synonymous with evil, was liberated 70 years ago, on January 27, 1945. It’s fitting to reflect not only on the industrialized slaughter of 11 million people under…
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Like many streams flowing into one huge, polluted river, personal and national problems are now merging together as globalization intensifies. Yet the egocentric and nationalistic mentality, to one degree or…
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“We are all Greeks,” the saying goes. It means that the Western mind was stamped in ancient Athens, and we cannot escape our heritage. Only by understanding its present movement…