* Honesty is hot.
* If expectations are properly aligned and understood (not just of another, but if all involved understand their own expectations), much is possible.
* I got the happiest email from my mother who just left this continent for the first time in her life. She's in Austria and was amazed and seemingly in a wonderland. It was maybe the ( Read more... )

The Point is to see how you are involved in a multitude of points, and that there is no one, single Point. The point is to stay connected to as many points as you can, stay engaged, see outside of yourself, and think about not just Your Life but the fact that you are part of something bigger. You are a vertex in a multidimensional object. Think of ( Read more... )

"Teleologists", as I call them, believe in teleology. Anti-teleologists are people who are either (1) angry at and/or opposed to Christianity or (2) are not able to see the temporal stream of "meanings" that lie from past to present to future, the end being just one node in the temporal stream, or (3) unable to feel and participate in "the meaning ( Read more... )