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Meister Eckhart says that “God is the denial of denial.” If politicians are in profound denial about, say climate change, or the insurrection of January
Dear Chief Justice Roberts, I write you as a fellow American and fellow human being concerned about voting rights. Your Court, having endangered American democracy by
Yesterday we meditated on Gandhi’s warning about character building and truth telling and its importance for the very survival of human society. This seems especially
We ended yesterday’s meditation with the fifth and sixth of Gandhi’s “social sins,” that of educating without character building and science without humanity. The latter includes inventions like
I turn first to Otto Rank for an answer as to what role a monarchy plays in the 21st century (though he died in 1939). He says that humanity is
Rumi tells us that “the spark of the soul is not easily lit.” When one hears scientists express ecstasy and cry tears of joy and wonder,
When I see a congressman calling for killing a fellow congressperson and hearing not a peep of protest from the head of the Republicans in
Growing up in the Middle West, my experience of racism was pretty much restricted to stories about Native Americans and African Americans. I don’t remember
As we learned by meditating on 9/11, arrogance can show its deep shadow from government or media, not just in individuals. When I learned that
The arrogance that comes when humans isolate themselves by nationality or religion, race or class, gender or sexual orientation, is evident everywhere in our world.
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