Erich Fromm in his work The Art of Listening (p.45) repeats the ancient Delphic truth to "Know Thyself". Fromm seems to believe that there is some kind of connection between the internal and external world. I am not clear on the extent to which this is true. Nonetheless exploring this truth has made all the difference. How [...]
(click Image to see video) Yo La Tengo or Ellos Me Tienen I found Yo La Tengo (or they found me) when I was in a season in my life of travelling. That season was full of all kinds of new experiences and discoveries. Yo La Tengo was one of them. I am [...]
https://youtu.be/Eh44QPT1mPE The following is a letter I wrote to the church I was a member of when I was trying to take my membership seriously. It was September 14th 2009. I was 23 at the time and had just started my junior year in college. I became a member of this church when I [...]
Source: Ancient of Days, William Blake "...religious beliefs are illusions... in the sense that they are not pure products of experience or end results of thinking but fulfilments of the oldest, strongest, and most urgent wishes of mankind. An illusion is not a mistake...An illusion is not necessarily false, that is, incapable of realization [...]
Source: Donato, Amber Prison Have you ever found yourself just looking at your hands? Marveling at the beauty, simplicity, utility, and the fleshly humanity of them? You take your hands through your entire life. The hand that touched your mothers breast while nursing is the same hand that you hold a cigarette with, is [...]
Image Source: The Flight Into Egypt Seneca shares with us in this quote his own perspective of Good and Evil. Seneca shifts how we define good and evil, but his definition doesn't really embrace the experience of pain. "But why," you ask, "does God sometimes allow evil to befall good men?" Assuredly he does not. [...]
I wish I could explain to you how the beauty of this world is a sign of something greater deeper and holy. I wish I could tell you the world of my heart and how the blood is more then just flowing pumping and bubbling through this body. I wish I could let you in [...]
I spoke with my father on the phone the other day. He was in Colombia at the time. I don’t call my father unless it’s important, but what I consider to be important is not what he considers to be important. And vice versa. My father told me on the phone that a linguist knew [...]
As an athlete I learned that anticipation was vital. And I was good at it. But somewhere along the way I just stopped. Somewhere in High School I think,. I just moved on to Theatre. In Theatre I learned that enunciation was vital. And I was good at it. But somewhere along the way [...]
Oh to be young again! I remember the days when I would fall asleep in my bed afraid of the dark. I remember sitting in detention because my parents couldn’t get me to school on time. I remember the tragic realization that my older sister would never be able to catch me in a game [...]