“Eternal life is a free gift” — is perhaps the most successful marketing ploy in history: A specious claim that offers the one thing that no one could have, at no cost at all.
Read Moreself
On Self Awareness
in Photography, Spiritual
I started having a peculiar experience. While in conversation, I would get a flash of my own semblance as it appears to the other person. It is a profound moment.
Read MoreThe Semblance of a Child
in Psychology, story, Philosophy
In the midst of my daily neurosis, as characterized by incessant thinking, scheming and analyzing, my eyes lay hold of a child. My attention is arrested. This petite human being cradles a found object in her cupped hands.
Read MoreThe meaningless pursuit of authenticity.
in Philosophy
If the self is an illusion, does that mean that authenticity or, to be true-to-oneself is a meaningless concept?
Read MorePeople are like trees.
in story
This past weekend I disappeared into the mountains and lost my sense of self.
It was bliss.
3 Days.
No cellphone. No mirrors. No to-do lists.
Read MoreI am not sure that I exist.
in Philosophy
I am not sure that I exist. I am sure of existence itself, but I… what is I?
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