There are certain experiences that shatter the eggshell of the self and spill the yolk of the unconscious, slippery and fertile, aglow with potential ...

“Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it. They feed ...

The great paradox of personhood is that the sum is simpler than its parts. We move through the world as a totality, fragmentary but indivisible, clothed ...

As our Technologies Converge there is One Way Forward10 min read·Feb 27, 2024This Article was Originally Published on my Substack.Today, it is already very ...

In our modern world, many believe that philosophy is outdated, that we have arrived at science, which can solve all of our problems eventually, and that ...

Bernard Williams (1929 – 2003) “He understands what you’re going to say better than you understand it yourself, and sees all the possible objections ...

Each time we have tried to elevate ourselves above the other animals by claiming singular possession of some faculty, we have been humbled otherwise: ...

“To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any ...

The price we pay for being children of chance, born of a billion bright improbabilities that prevailed over the staggering odds of nothingness and ...

“We speak of four fundamental forces,” a physicist recently said to me, “but I believe there are only two: good and evil” — a startling assertion coming ...

“Every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you,” wrote Whitman, who called himself a kosmos and believed of “the true poems” that “whom they take ...

You know that the price of life is death, that the price of love is loss, and still you watch the golden afternoon light fall on a face you love, ...