Living in Time
We may have noticed that we only experience what is already past, since it takes time for sensations and perceptions to be recognized, identified...
Category: Time, Space, and Knowledge
That Feeling
Of being strung out on the rack of the actual, Like well-worn garments hung out to dry. Are those shirts and jeans the ones...
Remembering the Past
I have to confess that I don’t really remember the past. Of course, images and whole scenes that pretend to be of past experiences...
Dancing with the World
“Without rhythms, there would be no experience, but rhythms do not have to do with experience unfolding in time. The movement goes deeper. It’s...
Feeling Connected
A thought that was also a feeling just arrived, unbidden, which immediately felt at home in my mind: Sometimes a particular activity—which like all...
Into the Light
The question on everyone’s lips is: “Did I run into the light or did the light run into me?” This question takes different forms...
When Two or More Gather
I’m on the outside looking in when it comes to practicing any religious orthodoxy. I suppose I picked that up from my mother, who...
Knowledge of Freedom
“We may notice changes in ourselves, our children, and in people around us, but the deeper meaning of these changes escapes us.”—Knowledge of Freedom:...
All the Math we Need to Know
Don’t we all sometimes look in a direction that is not a point on any compass? Don’t we keep drawing the measure of a...
Waving to the Bullet Train
It’s not every day that I learn something new; even less often do I understand something familiar in a fresh way. But a few...