Independence, but from What?
I have to remind myself to feel grateful that I live in a country which has enshrined in its founding documents the ideals of...
Tag: freedom
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:...
Beyond Limitation
“Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.”—Albert Einstein. The limit for which Einstein is probably best known is that the speed of...
Clear Sailing
How easy it is to lose track of all the space that permeates every part of our embodiment and lies within every surface that...
Be the Spider
When Phil (in “Groundhog Day”) tells Rita, “Be the hat” he has already shared with her that he is waking up every morning to...
My Bubble World
“Thoughts may arise like bubbles in a stream of water, but we are intent on entering the thought’s ‘bubble world’. From within that world...
Convening of the Board
I: I am the one who initiates, carries out, and monitors the progress of all decisions. Me: That’s...
Freedom of Mind, Mind of Freedom
I doubt that I’m the only one who has felt like the mouse in Kafka’s “A Little Fable”: “ALAS”, said the mouse, “the world...
The Day has Come
“The recognition of not-understanding is the opening to understanding.” Revelations of Mind, p219 It seems that we all search for a place in the...
Opportunities and Obligations.
It occurred to me this week that the distinction between “opportunity” and “obligation” is largely one of perspective. I awake each morning, and sometimes...