The word religion comes from Latin relegere , which means to “go over again”, to “carefully observe”. Religion, in its purest sense, is not about dogma, rites, monasticism, or indoctrination; it’s about attention.

We are spiritually malnourished from fast content. Our mistake is thinking that being informed is the same as being smart, or being alive, or being, entirely. So, practicing relegere is not actually about “being a better person”. The point of exercising focus is not perfection, what matters is the daily return and the refusal to let attention... See more

We have whites in our eyes because we care about what other people are looking at. The most universal symbol is the arrow (→) because of how primitive it is: the spear precedes words, alphabets, and compasses. It’s a line with a tip at one end, and it’s enough to imply “LOOK”. Its shape embodies its function—to point, to pierce, to direct. Every... See more

The word religion comes from Latin relegere , which means to “go over again”, to “carefully observe”. Religion, in its purest sense, is not about dogma, rites, monasticism, or indoctrination; it’s about attention.

It’s why the verb that precedes religion is practice . Religion, like the violin or dentistry, is a practice because it isn’t a one-time... See more