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Living in Time

Posted on 03/20/2025 by Michael Gray
We may have noticed that we only experience what is already past, since it takes time for sensations and perceptions to be recognized, identified...
Time, Space, and Knowledge compassion, experience, time, wisdom

Searching for What We Already Know

Posted on 01/08/2022 by Michael Gray
Here is the first paragraph of an essay of mine that has just been published in the Winter 2020 edition of Kosmos, Journal for...
Companions in Time Birds of the Air, caring, Kosmos Journal, wisdom

Life Imitating Art

Posted on 05/04/2020 by Michael Gray
Last week, I wrote a piece about a cuckoo bird who transcended his predetermined role in life to save his nest mates. I chose...
Companions in Time "Where the Forest Meets the Stars", compassion, flying, wisdom

Why a Bird has two Wings

Posted on 12/12/2017 by Michael Gray
The phrase (“Wisdom and Compassion are like the two wings of a bird”) expresses an important message for our fragmented times. This Buddhist saying...
Companions in Time Balance, behavior, compassion, emotions, the US Senate, wisdom, women in Congress

A Broken System

Posted on 08/02/2016 by Michael Gray
Why do two back-to-back political conventions leave us so exhausted, so doubtful that their gushing enthusiasms amounted to anything more than fantasy? How can...
Companions in Time action, broken criminal justice system, courage, money in politics, politics, silence, speech, suffering, transformation, vision, wisdom, words

Standing on the Shore, Not Lost

Posted on 06/01/2016 by Michael Gray
I increasingly find myself remembering fragments of passages that entered the recesses of my mind years ago, only to discover that the bright fabric...
Timely Aging death, friend, Lost, remembering, wisdom

At Badger’s House.

Posted on 04/12/2016 by Michael Gray
Ralph Waldo Emerson made the observation, in his essay, “Prudence”, that if you don’t repair your roof on a sunny day, you’ll be running...
Companions in Time Ant, appreciation, Autumn, Canada Goose, GMO, Grasshopper, Prudence, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Wind in the Willows, wisdom

Two is the Loneliest Number

Posted on 12/22/2015 by Michael Gray
“When I look inside and see that I am nothing, that is wisdom. When I look outside and see that I am everything, that...
Time, Space, and Knowledge collaboration, Gurdjieff, knowledge, love, reconciliation, space, Tao, time, wisdom, Yang, Yin

Free Will

Posted on 09/01/2015 by Michael Gray
I have a friend who believes that there is no “Free Will”. I’m not sure what that actually means, but I don’t feel that...
Companions in Time forgiveness, free will, freedom, freedom of will, futility, light, predetermined, resentment, spiritual path, wisdom
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