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?
To speak of accurate perceptions points to an immediate problem. The fact that we feel the need to speak of things in terms of ‘accurate’ or ‘inaccurate’ leads to the conclusion that perhaps we cannot really know essential truths. In reality, these terms—accurate and inaccurate, right and wrong —are unnecessary.
The ultimate is not more right, […]
Does my soul drop down into an abyssal sleep, one without dreams, a slumber that lasts forever, once it lays my body down? I had that question in mind when I looked up from my desk and spotted the title on the spine of the movie’s jacket – The Big Sleep. For purposes of confirmation, […]
When someone or some circumstance takes what is mine, I tend to bloat up with justified anger. Yet there’s no reason for anger, no call to injustice. Everything I own is but a borrowing, and a remainder bequeathed when I pass. All that I survey as mine in truth belongs to that which lives its […]
I think the fundamental mistake people make regarding a higher power is that they liken God’s mind to their own minds. The more religious among us assume, for example, that God is in control of the universe. Many of us believe that God has drawn a vast and indescribably complex central plan. We believe that […]
The atom master smashed his club down upon the rock, and worlds he forged from the hearts of stars. He pounded his rod down again, and universes hatched, squeezing through an orifice that had no size. And yet, he fashioned the universes in ignorance. Worlds within worlds he smelted by his surmises. In the infinite […]
Some thoughts about our deepest desires. First off, dreams are often impractical. Let’s not worry about that. If they were practical, they wouldn’t be dreams. Second, when we start to move toward the things we really want, obstacles often pop up. We become afraid of not getting what we desire. We start to convince ourselves […]