Joseph Burgess

Six rooms in an elegant Victorian or Edwardian house built after the earthquake rented for $120.

The only solidarity worth affirming is solidarity characterized by the same helplessness they know and experience.

To be anti-elitist, however, is to stop caring about attention as a metric of quality, because those who already have it will always win. It requires caring about the people who aren’t on magazine covers and don’t have hundreds of thousands of followers. It requires engaging in smaller-scale, more private, and more coherent efforts — the community... See more

And what Zen proposes to do is to give us training in the practice of spontaneous action.

Yes, love is the final goal but ever deeper trust inside of darkness is the path for getting there.

Market research is simply about answering these 3 questions:

• What Powerful Ability do customers want to gain?


• What Desired Outcome do they want to achieve with that ability?


• What kind of Ideal Experience are they hoping to have?

The soul might continue to have qualms about wasting time. She may wonder if it would not be better to be doing something else, since she cannot think or activate anything in prayer. Let her bear these doubts calmly. There is no other way to go to prayer now than to surrender to this sweet ease and breadth of spirit. If the soul tries to engage her... See more

What sets Storm apart from other thinkers who have explored similar intellectual territory—like Claude Lévi-Strauss with his notion of “bricolage” and Jean Piaget with his observations of children and their toys—is his refusal to treat the eolithic mindset as archaic or merely a phase for primitive societies or toddlers.