Revisioning: Ambiguities in the Language
Vision Dictionary Definitions: Latin: Videre: To see Some of its derivatives: Visible: Can be seen with the eye or evident to the mind; on hand. Vision: [...]
Individualism: Quotations
“Normal comes from normaliter, meaning in a straight line, directly. The 16th and 17th century meaning of ‘normal’ was rectangular, perpendicular, standing at a [...]
Compassion: Quotations
"People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway. If you do good, people may accuse you of selfish motives. Do good anyway. If you [...]
Dependent Arising, A Quotation
Quotation by Thomas J. McFarlane from Process and Emptiness: A Comparison of Whitehead’s Process Philosophy and Mahayana Buddhist Philosophy “…One of the core doctrines in [...]
Authenticity
"You wander from room to room hunting for the diamond necklace That is already around your neck!” Sufi Mystic Rumi [...]
A New Year, Thoughts by Glenda Taylor
A new year. But what’s new about it? The same old fretful dithering, over health, politics, family issues repeated over generations. Why bother to [...]
Take Heart, an Essay
Take heart! Although the news each day seems more and more alarming, the political divisions and unrest, at home and abroad, seem more and more [...]
“Either-Or” and “Yes-And”
When I was eight years old my mother and my stepfather married, my biological father having been dead since I was a baby. We moved temporarily [...]
“Ageing,” a poem by Glenda Taylor
I’m slowly dissolving into the Void. While others are spending years sitting upright on hard cushions, striving not to strive to achieve mindlessness, I’m getting [...]
Prayer for the Perpetrators
My dearly beloved friends and family, Like you, I am sure, this week, including as it has the events in Boston, Washington, and now the [...]
