Alex Dobrenko

We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.

— Herman Hesse, Siddhartha

I continue to think it's cool that Rozzi Roomian, a young San Francisco painter, depicted spiritual experience in a way that's clearer to me than like every piece of religious iconography I've ever seen https://t.co/XMySZObxd5

Just because you have a ‘platform’ ( a spurious notion to begin with - I mean, don’t even get me started) does not mean you owe your voice to whoever makes demands of it . You do not have to draw attention to every charitable cause and global disaster equally once you pass some magical follower threshold. You are not a news broadcast station with a... See more

I am talking about holding on to one’s moral and ethical principles while replacing the rhetoric of right versus wrong or good versus evil with an approach known as relational ethics. Theorists like the philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling and the psychologist Carol Gilligan have described relational ethics as situating the self... See more