Popular wisdom often admonishes us to live in the moment, to allow each breath we draw into our lungs to be a potential crucible of change ( Read more... )

To the young, Santa Claus and Christmas morning are like the mystery religions of old. As the secret followers of Dionysus or Mithras looked into darkness with blindfolded eyes trying to see a light that did not reveal itself in their own shadowed world, so too do children wait with grasping eyes for Santa Claus' wake ( Read more... )

It was driving back from my sister's birthday celebration that I decided to turn left rather than right ( Read more... )

Why does an artist paint, or a musician play, or a writer write? What is it about the paroxysm of creation that in its name some choose to bleed life and hope, desperation and delusion ( Read more... )

There is a quote that haunts me: The things we tell another are not the experience, but the story of the experience.Stories are far more than just words on a page. Stories are the reality we react to, the reality we base our sense of worth and accomplishment upon, and the reality that we are remembered for ( Read more... )

A few weeks ago, I wrote an entry called Conversational Analysis that strove to understand how the patterns of everyday conversations formed, reinforced and, sometimes, degenerated existing interpersonal relationships ( Read more... )

We think of ourselves as of a singular mind, yet in truth we are fractured in the middle; right brain on the one side, left brain upon the other ( Read more... )

"Self-ignorance is a form of self-destruction."
The ultimate definition of any tradition or ideology - religious or not - lies in the orthodoxy (set of beliefs) and the orthopraxy (set of practices) of that ideology ( Read more... )

"An experience can never be communicated whole to another. What we tell to another is not the experience itself, but only the story of the experience."
In the memorial service to a great man or woman, the epitaph speaks of those accomplishments as the work of a lifetime. The legacy of their children is called forth to witness in the light of day; ( Read more... )

"Never try to substitute saying the right thing to yourself in place of saying the true thing."