mindfulness
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On Shark-Fins
I have this feeling like I am on the cusp of some greater understanding, and that I need an extended period of rumination to bring it forth. I have collected the story of Christ as it…
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A Personal God
Hands to the sun, Held aloft by one wrist. An invisible thread leading into the sky. A lonely stone idol in a beautiful forest clearing, with cold water running nearby. White cloth and gold trim, a…
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Litany on Potential
Potential is not the metric of a life in this moment. It is always beyond, always ahead. There is no end in sight to my potential, or to anyone’s. My life will not be the end…
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An Exercise on Free Will
Edited from “1/18/23 – An Exercise on Free Will” In his 2012 essay ‘Free Will’, Sam Harris describes the causal nature of impulses (which lead to actions) as a logical argument against the concept of Free…
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On The Soul
1/12/23 – On The Soul One major philosophical concept: that of the Soul. Or rather, what has been described by some as the soul, the self, the “I that I am”: a singular, indivisible, atomic center…
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Flowers for Everyone
9/2/23 Charlie, I wanted to start by thanking you for everything you’ve done for me. Besides the treatment and therapy, you know by now that you’ve been the closest thing to a friend to me for…
Sanctity and Constraint 