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It is through seeing the invisible, hearing the inaudible, and feeling the untouchable that humans imagine, predict, and infer. The problem is that humans have weak imaginations, inaccurate predictions, and fallacious reasoning. That’s why humans repeat the same mistakes, get easily excited, are deceived by absurd fictions, and fight over pointless

I believe that welcoming subjectivity into our lives opens the doors to seeing the unseen. Subjectivity offers us a way of seeing from different angles and myriad perspectives. It fuels an examination of a nascent point of view and helps bring clarity to the amorphous, fuzzy concepts and questions we grapple with. It is only when we experiment and

(Perhaps the enduring impulse that drives a life of scholarship is like the enduring impulse that drives a life of art: not asking a question that you don’t know the answer to, but answering a question that you never figure out how to formulate.)

She had never been too tired to paint. She would have to update her will. She hadn’t looked at it since Richard died. “What

According to Buddhist principles, in seeing ourselves, our emotions and thoughts, exactly as they are right now, and in not trying to make them go away or improve or change them, we have the opportunity to befriend ourselves and cease suffering. This no-escape witnessing, when we can do it with “precision and gentleness” (the gentleness is key),

if you’re in conversation with the self, you can be in conversation with the world.

One of the main components of the modern idea of the self is interiority or inwardness, the feeling that there is a personal inner space that we alone have access to.

Sleep was key to thought, and to intellectual development. As man’s thoughts became ever more complex, the longer he needed to sleep. The longer man slept, Bruno said, the more he dreamed, and the more penetrating and wondrous his waking thought became.

Recovering memory is more like picking up shards of your past. But even that can be beautiful, because they can be reassembled as a mosaic, which, as the author Terry Tempest Williams says, is “a conversation between what is broken.”