Guest Blog. This essay was written by a recent student-friend, as he explores one of those areas by which we establish meaning in our...

We all take as a given, like fish in water, a cultural and historical preoccupation with the “self” as something to nurture, protect,...

"Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creation out of void, but out of chaos." -- Mary Shelley We are all mystics...

So, what do you think about when you’re not thinking about anything else? Where does your mind go when it isn’t busy with goal-directed...

""...the dividing line between good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his...

There is a real paradox in intimate relationships. No one wants to be alone, but for someone to be really with you, especially to be a...

Knowing ourselves must surely include knowing not only that but how much our very sense of ourselves is a “mythic reality” by which we...

We know our bodies intimately. It is through our bodies and our nervous systems that we are aware of and come to know anything at all....

The tender pragmatisms of flesh have poetries no enigma--human or divine--can diminish or demean. Indeed, it can only cause them, and...

The Socratic maxim, gnothi seauton, “know thyself,” was originally intended to emphasize its importance, over time wasted on things like...