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The Human Being’s Responsibility
As William Faulkner wrote, “The past isn’t dead. It isn’t even past.” But blaming others, personally or collectively, for real or imagined injustices, perpetuates dependency. Indeed, prolonging a...
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The Broken Road – Changing Myself & My Surroundings
I was slowly pushing all the negativity away from me and all the people surrounded by drama were exiting stage left in the story of my life. All I needed were people that brought happiness into my...
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The Marrow of Time
A physics professor at M.I.T., Max Tegmark, made an extraordinary claim recently: “It is inappropriate to define our Hot Big Bang as the beginning of time, because we don’t know whether time actually...
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Life and Death Is Good
Sometimes what people call meditation is as far from my understanding of it as a jihadist’s idea of heaven. It sounds more like the continuity of hell to me. Central to meditation is communion with...
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Vita Contemplativa and Vita Activa
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 mistake. It’s a crock. Sacred activism’ is a...
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Disorder from Order In Man’s Evolution
Asking the right question is very important. Given that nature unfolds in wholeness and order, and that the human species evolved from and in nature, how is it that man could become such a force of...
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Don’t Learn, Unlearn!
Autumn is at its peak in northern California, and the normally muted colors in this Mediterranean climate are more intense than usual this year. A path behind the entrance is ablaze with red, gold and...
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Concerning Passing Shadows
There was a trinity of rare natural occurrences yesterday, March 20th 2015—solar eclipse, supermoon and spring equinox. The shadow thrown on the earth by the moon in a total eclipse of the sun is only...
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Radically Changing, Day to Day
The greatest problem facing us as human beings individually and collectively (collectively both as peoples and humanity) is the urgency of radically changing. Nature itself is urgently demanding it,...
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A Theory of Life’s Origins
The greatest unanswered question of biology is still the first one: How did life begin on earth? A corollary of this question is: How common is life in the universe? We are living at a very exciting...
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Diving into Death
When I was in junior high school, bored classmates and I would hold breath-holding contests. Since I could hold my breath for 4 minutes, I usually won. Natalia Molchanova, the greatest freediver in...
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Pity the Walking Dead
A young couple slowly makes their way upstream. They have a big dog and stop often, for no apparent reason. About thirty meters away, the young man, who’s in jeans that are wet above the knees, stops...
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A Good Life, and a Good Death
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 with their lives when they knew the...
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The Human Brain Matters
Life is on the cusp of exploding with spring here. For a few minutes there is nothing except bright, diffuse light, the water flowing by, and long shoots of new grass across the stream so green they...
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The World’s No Beach
A girl of about 9 slowly makes her way downstream from ‘the beach,’ a small spit of sand in the park at the adjacent site. Carrying a walking stick she has found, she’s left her parents and brothers to...
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Living Up To Our Potential
A woodpecker lands across the stream shortly after I arrive. I’ve never seen one drinking at the water’s edge before. Something about the late afternoon light, the rippling water, the thick foliage and...
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Radically Changing, Day to Day
The greatest problem facing us as human beings individually and collectively (collectively both as peoples and humanity) is the urgency of radically changing. Nature itself is urgently demanding it,...
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A Theory of Life’s Origins
The greatest unanswered question of biology is still the first one: How did life begin on earth? A corollary of this question is: How common is life in the universe? We are living at a very exciting...
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Diving into Death
When I was in junior high school, bored classmates and I would hold breath-holding contests. Since I could hold my breath for 4 minutes, I usually won. Natalia Molchanova, the greatest freediver in...
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Pity the Walking Dead
A young couple slowly makes their way upstream. They have a big dog and stop often, for no apparent reason. About thirty meters away, the young man, who’s in jeans that are wet above the knees, stops...
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