These short reflections and insights range in length from twitter-length to short essays. They’re free, so what’ve you got to lose but a few moments?
We are, each of us, a unique, one-time expression, the whorls on the tip of a finger. What a glorious, untried experiment a person is, each time one is born. And there you are, trying to be like everybody else.
You are a mayfly. You live just one day. And that day shall never be repeated.
Most moments […]
Let’s face it – to believe in God, to believe in anything beyond what our senses tell us, in something that exists beyond the body, that survives death – is a choice. There is ultimately, no proof of it. I can make inferences based on hypotheses like intelligent design, which infers statistically the existence of […]
How great Love is that it creates for Itself not subjects to rule or a master to serve, but its own peers. For just as surely as our children will one day become our equals, so we have been created with a limitless potential.
Most parents want their children to one day equal or exceed them. […]
We are created in God’s image. God is Love, and so we love. That’s what it means to be like God. It means we love and grieve once we lose the object of our love. And rest assured, every thing loved here is lost in the end; the pallet wiped clean. To love is to […]
Each self is a vessel only. Like the channel of a river, I am not the river itself. I am not life, but the course through which life flows. This fact seems tragic. For it points to impermanence and meaninglessness and death. And I strive for a hundred forms of immortality to defend against it, […]
Modern psychology has tended to pathologize that which it doesn’t understand. Take depersonalization and derealization disorders. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th edition (the DSM-5), published by the American Psychiatric Association, recognizes both of these as bona fide mental illnesses. Symptoms of depersonalization can include the sensory experience that objects are shaped […]
We were made because Love was lonely. There has to be a me, because there is a you. Between you and me there must be a difference: a difference in space, in form, in name. Not because the differences are real, but because if two people in a relationship were exactly the same, one of […]
The last words attributed to the Buddha were—
All created things must die. Strive on.
I love, only to lose all that I love. Every creature, whether my cat or my mother, every talent, whether to dance or to draw, to write or to practice law, shall be, must in the end be relinquished. All […]
We fall into the arms of a God because we need deliverance from death. The idea that we can suffer and strive so valiantly on this planet, only to have it all fall to pieces at the moment of our deaths is a frightening prospect. So, some people think we invented God as a wish […]