understanding

For some, the Christmas period is tinged with shades of blue, mirroring the Grinch’s mood rather than Santa’s cheer.

When ordinary journeys transmute into extraordinary odysseys, life unfolds in the most unexpected pages of experiences and realizations.

In the early 1980’s, after 15 years of intensive philosophical inquiry into the question of how human disorder could evolve out of the natural order, I had a shattering experience…

The land is bathed in beauty as the sun, giving its last warmth on an ineffably clear and lovely winter’s afternoon, slides toward the horizon.

“Ignorance is not lack of knowledge but of self-knowing.” I read that provocative statement today, and it prompted these questions: What is self-knowing? What is the difference between self-knowing and…

After over 24 hours of hard rain, and despite an ongoing steady downpour, we entered the parkland for a walk, carrying umbrellas and bundled against the chill. Crossing the footbridge,…

I talked with a man recently who is into something called ‘sacred activism.’ The phrase gave me pause, but I gave him the benefit of the doubt. That was a…

It’s easy to make fun of the fools who are working day and night to invent a “technology that enables the transfer of human consciousness to a machine, extending life,…