WHY IS IT SO HARD FOR US TO CHANGE COURSE?
Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin, two co-founders of the Center for Humane Technology, insist that they are not adamantly opposed to all new technologies.
Read moreEGO, EMPTINESS, AND REBIRTH
Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche:
To approach the finality of our bodies while paying no attention to the mini-deaths of daily life is like confusing diamonds with pebbles and throwing them away.
LOOKING FOR HOPE WHEREVER I MIGHT FIND IT
My wife regularly points out my tendency to expect the worst in any situation. In fact, she goes so far as to call me a catastrophizer (though I’m not sure just how she would spell that word).
Read moreON THE VALIDITY OF THE BIBLICAL TEXT
Thomas Jefferson:
But the whole history of these books is so defective and doubtful that it seems vain to attempt minute inquiry into it: and such tricks have been plaid with their text, and with the texts of other books relating to them, that we have a right, from that cause, to entertain much doubt what parts of them are genuine.
WHITEHEAD ON READING KANT
Charles Hartshorne:
Whitehead once said that Kant’s Critiques should have been written in reverse order. This is because … Whitehead held that experiencing is primarily and primitively enjoying-suffering and only in special cases knowing; so that the theory of feeling, and hence aesthetics, not epistemology, is primary.
HUMAN "PROGRESS" AND NATURE
Charles Hartshorne:
“Are we making progress?” should not reduce entirely to “Are we coming to own more things?