Joseph Burgess

The contrast with the design mode of instrumental reason could not be more pronounced. Eolithism posits no predefined problems to solve, no fixed goals to pursue. Storm’s Stone Age flâneur stands in stark opposition to the kind of rationality on display in Cold War–era thought experiments like the prisoner’s dilemma—and is only better for it. The... See more

Francis emphasized an imitation and love of the humanity of Jesus, and not just the worshiping of his divinity . That is a major shift.

Sacks may be a billionaire, but even in this transactional town, there’s a more valuable currency: attention.

Meister Eckhart, in the 13th century broadened the meaning and responsibility for this work when he said:

We are all meant to be mothers of God...for God is always needing to be born.

his means forming the sitting posture as if it were happening for the very first time, feeling the actual rate and depth of the breath, bringing attention to where discomfort arises and, perhaps, moving gently and deliberately to relieve it.

This kind of attention isn’t always easy. Sometimes we’re able to be present and sometimes we’re not. Such... See more

“on the edge of the inside,”

if we sacrifice Reality in the basic and universal elements, we end up sacrificing the same Reality in ourselves.

This quote from James L. Farmer is at the front of my journal: “Courage, after all, is not being unafraid, but doing what needs to be done in spite of fear.”