Tag: adulthood

A Simple Life

(audio version available for paid subscribers) A monastery strikes me as a place where human children can go to simulate human adulthood. Monks take vows

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Unio Mystica

(audio version available for paid subscribers) Don’t let this get out, but the ugly truth is that I’m a surprisingly shallow person. (Sorry, it came

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The Road Ahead

(audio version available for paid subscribers) The term uncanny valley refers to the downward plunge on a graph where our comfort with artificial humans turns

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On Wisdom

(audio version available for paid subscribers) I’m not gonna bullshit you, not as a rule but just for the moment. I have no idea what

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Negative Buoyancy

(audio version available for paid subscribers) All things want to float. Rainer Maria Rilke The spiritual journey is not a matter of consciousness or goodness

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The Great Equalizer

(audio version available for paid subscribers)   The stale cadaver blocks up the passage,the burial waits no longer. Walt Whitman Thinking isn’t really that hard,

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People I Trust to Lie

(audio version available for paid subscribers) Of course it wasn’t funny; it was tragic.That’s why I had to laugh.  Valentine Michael Smith One of the

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A Cult of One

(audio available for paid subscribers) Reality: It’s all in your head.  It would be nice if you could just reformat your internal hard drive and

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The Open Road

(audio version available for paid subscribers) Henceforth I ask not good-fortune, I myself am good-fortune,Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing,Done with

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Twenty-One Words

(audio version available for paid subscribers) Only two things exist, one of which doesn’t.Awareness is true and does exist.Appearance is untrue and does not exist.

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