Meghan, Duchess of Sussex has revealed that she had thoughts of loneliness and suicide amidst her big royal family brouhaha. No doubt Harry did all…
The monastery—the citadel built as refuge from the world, the flesh, the devil. The monk pronounces Noli me tangere (‘touch me not’)—Christ’s words to Mary Magdalene…
O Shariputra [who listens to the teachings of the Buddha], form is not separate from boundlessness; boundlessness is not separate from form. Form is boundlessness;…
1 Ananke – impersonal cosmic necessitystands behind and above the will of both humans and even the gods. Related idea Inevitability. 2 Moira – fate…
In Stranger from Abroad: Hanna Arendt, Martin Heidegger, Friendship and Forgiveness by Daniel Maier-Katkin, I found remarkable words about ‘love, despair and emerging,’ which I…
“A world of secret passions is perverting the men who make your laws.” — Frank Zappa Part 1 Can imprisonment of people for profit ever…
Chapter 1 The December 2013 Smithsonian has Ron Rosenbaum’s interview of stage and film director Julie Taymore—she of the glorious staging of The Lion King…
“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.” —Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard’s Almanac This is a taxonomy of types of secrets and…
THE MONK’S WALK / Paul Laurence Dunbar In this somber garden closeWhat has come and passed, who knows?What red passion, what white painHaunted this dim…
People often call both human wickedness and natural disaster by the same word—evil. In actuality only human malevolence qualifies as evil. Floods, tornados and earthquakes…