Rishita Chaudhary

Some folks have difficulty with Peck's definition of love hecause he uses the word "spiritual." He is refering to that dimension of our core reality where mind, body, and spirit are one. An individual does not need to be a believer in a religion to embrace the idea that there is an animating principle in the self—a life force (some of us call it

These Russian conversations import the freedom of dialogues of the dead into everyday life. In some liminal space - “a stinking tavern,” a train compartment, an inn at the crossroads - time seems suspended, and people talk about the depths of their souls as if they were already living outside time.

Notes on Emerson’s Notes

Name your notebooks: the names we give our notebooks designate a relationship—sometimes aspirational—with literature and the world of ideas. I wonder how my relationship to my notebooks might change if I named them “The Wide World.” Would my ideas become more expansive?

Nothing’s truly new, but you should still develop a