Struggle, gifts, trains and delight
I doubt that you've noticed, but I certainly have - I haven't written to you in two weeks. I'm finding it hard to write at the moment. I'm not sure why, but I can't find the place from where the
Love, and do as you please
These words have been present in me today. Over and over again they arise, a gentle repetitive rhythm … love, and do as you please.
How Much Land Does a Man Need?
“Our only trouble,” thought Pahóm, “is that we haven’t land enough. If I had plenty of land, I shouldn’t fear the Devil himself.”
How can we know the Good?
Like many of us, I want to be good and wise and happy. But would we recognise those things if we were given them?
The holidays are done
I have had two weeks off, and the world has seemed to join me in taking a break. Empty streets and shuttered shops, fathers playing with their children in the woods, houses glowing lightly against the falling darkness. Freedom from the usual round of obligations, from the rhythms of the
Someone I love is suffering
Someone I love is suffering, wrote a friend. What can philosophy tell me about my responsibilities to help them?
How's life?
This morning, I had what I like to dignify by calling a minor epiphany (you could also just call it "a thought", but where's the fun in that?). The epiphany arrived in a cafe. I sipped my double espresso and stared at my notebook. “I am
Stillness
Alles ist gut wie es ist, said the stillness. Everything is good as it is.
Experiences of Racism
I experience myself as living in a racist society.
Magic
Every moment of my life, I am carried by magic.
One Thought Too Many
Should the man save the stranger or his wife?
Philosophy and Ordinary Life
The actual world had asked something of him. But he lived in the true world and had failed to answer the call.