Ever Want to Punch God in the Nose?
The most maddening thing about existence is that you can't just turn it off, can't exit the stage, can't really put an end to any of it. Suicide, you say? Well, sure, that's an option, but given that nobody has yet to blow out their brains and report back I've always thought there was some [...]
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Happiness is to Drop the Search – and the Searcher
Many moons ago a sibling asked me why I was investing so much of my time and energy searching for life's meaning. "It doesn't get you anywhere, it's not making you any happier," or words to that effect. Oh but it will make me happy, I insisted, I just need to work harder at it. [...]
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What Do You Demand of Your Life?
What do you demand of your life? What, more than anything else, do you insist that this life produce for you before you exit the stage? Fame, fortune, longevity, cool new experiences? (We'll return to the question in a moment.) If I am honest I am not one of life's biggest fans. At an early [...]
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People Who Need People
More often than not, if I'm suffering someone else is involved. That's about as straight-forward as I can put it. I suffer because of other people. Put differently, I rarely if ever can recall a time where I was unhappy when I was, say, out for a solo walk in the woods, a hike on [...]
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Knocking on Heaven’s Door
Sometimes I feel like I'm knocking at the door and I need only wipe away the condensation on the glass so that I might at last really and truly see what's going on. That's the thing about constantly inquiring into existence - it starts to reveal little snippets of itself. There are glimpses of, what, [...]
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Teaching Kids to Turn Within
From my son during a recent lengthy car trip: "Dad, what religion are we?" I answered that we are not religious or, more specifically, that I am not. Turns out that some of my son's friends had been poking into his background in that way newly-minted middle schoolers have of interrogating each other in order [...]
When All the Concepts are Killed
For as long as I can remember I've been looking for myself. You know, that fuzzy notion of a 'me' that seems to be experiencing something called 'life' on something called 'planet Earth' in something else called the 'universe.' Yet no matter how hard I look I can't find that dude. And if I'm honest, [...]
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On Being Lived
Comes another day, awakening with no conscious prompting, a momentary pause until the mind reenters and brings with it thoughts of 'me' and 'my life.' Like an early-morning commuter station humming back to life, the eyes open, the lungs draw deeply, and thoughts come streaming in and out of a head not yet lifted from [...]
Regardless of What You Think
This video is well worth the 9 minutes it takes to watch. It is beautiful because in just 9 minutes it challenges all of those silly, stupid little judgments we make about ourselves, about others, about life. It reminds us that regardless of what we think, life happens. Or as the old saw goes, life [...]
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Ever Want to Punch God in the Nose?
The most maddening thing about existence is that you can't just turn it off, can't exit the stage, can't really put an end to any of it. Suicide, you say? Well, sure, that's an option, but given that nobody has yet to blow out their brains and report back I've always thought there was some [...]
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Happiness is to Drop the Search – and the Searcher
Many moons ago a sibling asked me why I was investing so much of my time and energy searching for life's meaning. "It doesn't get you anywhere, it's not making you any happier," or words to that effect. Oh but it will make me happy, I insisted, I just need to work harder at it. [...]
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What Do You Demand of Your Life?
What do you demand of your life? What, more than anything else, do you insist that this life produce for you before you exit the stage? Fame, fortune, longevity, cool new experiences? (We'll return to the question in a moment.) If I am honest I am not one of life's biggest fans. At an early [...]
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People Who Need People
More often than not, if I'm suffering someone else is involved. That's about as straight-forward as I can put it. I suffer because of other people. Put differently, I rarely if ever can recall a time where I was unhappy when I was, say, out for a solo walk in the woods, a hike on [...]
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Knocking on Heaven’s Door
Sometimes I feel like I'm knocking at the door and I need only wipe away the condensation on the glass so that I might at last really and truly see what's going on. That's the thing about constantly inquiring into existence - it starts to reveal little snippets of itself. There are glimpses of, what, [...]
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Teaching Kids to Turn Within
From my son during a recent lengthy car trip: "Dad, what religion are we?" I answered that we are not religious or, more specifically, that I am not. Turns out that some of my son's friends had been poking into his background in that way newly-minted middle schoolers have of interrogating each other in order [...]
When All the Concepts are Killed
For as long as I can remember I've been looking for myself. You know, that fuzzy notion of a 'me' that seems to be experiencing something called 'life' on something called 'planet Earth' in something else called the 'universe.' Yet no matter how hard I look I can't find that dude. And if I'm honest, [...]
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On Being Lived
Comes another day, awakening with no conscious prompting, a momentary pause until the mind reenters and brings with it thoughts of 'me' and 'my life.' Like an early-morning commuter station humming back to life, the eyes open, the lungs draw deeply, and thoughts come streaming in and out of a head not yet lifted from [...]
Regardless of What You Think
This video is well worth the 9 minutes it takes to watch. It is beautiful because in just 9 minutes it challenges all of those silly, stupid little judgments we make about ourselves, about others, about life. It reminds us that regardless of what we think, life happens. Or as the old saw goes, life [...]