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.

A Miserable State of Affairs

I do not want power over men's emotions. I do not want power over men's thoughts. I do not want power over the actions of men. I wan...