Reading Archive
Freewill And Responsbility
Susan Blackmore
Do I have free will? No. I am not separate from the perceptions, thoughts and actions that make up my world. And if I am what seems to be the world, then we are in this together. Me and the world, ...
Sit Under The Tree
Rabbi Ariel Burger
One of the most important things that humanity has to learn for its survival is that the choice between self and other, between particularity and universalism, is a fallacy. It is taken as obvious tha...
My Final Shareholder Letter
Warren Buffett
One perhaps self-serving observation. I’m happy to say I feel better about the second half of my life than the first. My advice: Don’t beat yourself up over past mistakes – learn at ...
My Dreams, My Works, Must Wait Till After Hell
Gwendolyn Brooks
I hold my honey and I store my bread In little jars and cabinets of my will. I label clearly, and each latch and lid I bid, Be firm till I return from hell. I am very hungry. I am incomple...
What Is A Pilgrimage?
Vimala Thakar
What is a pilgrimage? And who is a pilgrim? Life itself is a pilgrimage. The whole lifetime is the time for undertaking a pilgrimage. A willingness to live, a willingness to look at Life when ...
The Day I Learned Giving
Dan Clark
Once when I was a teenager, my father and I were standing in line to buy tickets for the circus. Finally, there was only one other family between us and the ticket counter. This family made a big i...
Who Am I? I Am Thine!
Deitrich Bonhoeffer
Who am I? They often tell me I stepped from my cells confinement Calmly, cheerfully, firmly, Like a Squire from his country house. Who am I? They often tell me I used to speak to my warders Fr...
Mother Earth's Humming
Yuria Celidwen
Now, She still ripples. She still hums, pulses, quivers. She still sighs, murmurs under the Skies. We pay attention, and all we hear is urgency. Waters whirl, winds rise, fires rage, irate. The cha...
Eloquence Of Silence
Thomas Moore
If you have rich empty oases in you, places for refreshment and pause, you can more likely enjoy a happy life. If you see a stunning mountain or lake as you travel, you can stop and take time to do no...
Just This Once
Clay M. Christensen
I’d like to share a story about how I came to understand the potential damage of “just this once” in my own life. I played on the Oxford University varsity basketball team. We worked...
The Face Game
Richard Lang
Learning to play “the Face Game”, as Douglas Harding calls it, is not seen as being a mistake or trap, but actually an important stage of human development which only becomes problematic w...
Bouquets And Brickbats
Gurpreet
Guru Nanak, the first Guru of the Sikhs, shared a message that was radical for his day. He questioned empty rituals, exposed the hypocrisy of the powerful, and encouraged ordinary people to rise above...