There is a black hole at the center of the mind, and the more you tap into it the more you will be ‘at peace.’ You can call this black hole “God,” “emptiness,” “inner peace,” or something else — I just call it “happiness.”
This country was founded on two diametrically-opposed myths, the second coming symbiotically and weirdly out of the first, like a siamese twin struggling to free itself from its host.
As much as I hate assigning a ‘liberal vs. conservative’ spectrum to political beliefs, it can be helpful as a way to start a deeper search. What’s interesting to me isn’t so much what people believe, but why. Just like in any other realm of…
(from a work of fiction, but can be read as non-fiction)
Do you find that most of your life consists of going from room to room, turning on and off lights? This was the value prop that appeared, somewhere, although it could not be said to ‘appear’ because…
Concept Development is Phase 0.1 of a project. Phase 0 is the initial impetus — the seed — that often comes coded, veiled, symbolized as some sort of primer that is subconsciously interpreted by the emotions as ‘important.’ James Joyce called the full extent of this rapture…
The biggest mistake most people make, myself included, when trying to solve a problem is they jump into the ‘additive’ mode — that is, they intuitively grasp onto their instinct about what ‘new’ thing they can add to the system or situation at hand which they think would ‘fix’ it or make…
In the beginning, people lived in tribes comprised solely of their close relatives, due to inbreeding. These tribes were thought to be no bigger than 150 people. There were not many people on earth, but they all lived in a relatively small area, where they had evolved and loosely branched…
I have two sons, an almost-four year old and a two and-a-half year old. We’ve taken them to church a handful of times. Both were Baptized. And yet I wonder — what would…
From Many to One to “Many”
The fun-house mirror of reality is just that — an illusion
In the shockingly astute, provocative, and timely book “The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry” by Portland-based pastor John Mark Comer, there is a passage, hiding in plain sight in the chapter on living simply/minimally, that opens an entire Pandora’s Box of paradox: