Tuesday, January 28, 2020

A Different Point of View

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.--Percy Bysshe Shelley

And so does great art.

The Room with a Balcony by Adolph von Menzel 1845

A Hopeful Case

A child is hope personified.

Tuesday, January 14, 2020

A Masked Truth

When learning to meditate, we need a good teacher because the fraud committed on us is so close to home.

We are so accustomed to disguising ourselves to others that we end up being disguised to ourselves.--Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Saturday, January 4, 2020

A Biased Opinion

True meditation can be described as the ongoing effort to deepen the awareness of our own cognitive biases.

The Watchman

"Some watch others to learn what to do, and some watch to learn what not to do." --Eric Hoffer in The Passionate State of Mind And...