In order to survive, the out-group must make a constant study of the in-gr… and adapt to its evolving aggressi… The latest lesson is that,

Like Jacob If you wrestle with the divine Through the darkest hours You will get hurt and limp away Which we call experiencing loss

As ever There is the easy way And the hard way The hard way Is being condemned to a freedom

We confuse freedom for the act of choosing when our frontal lobe has no choice but to choose just as a heart must beat

One thing I’ve learned is The good times Weren’t as good As I imagined them to be In fear of the bad times

In banishing fear of the unknown By knowing it all Our risk is only greater Because now It’s the devil you know

We think of death As the worst-case scenario But what if In the best-case scenario Death is the answer to a question?

In order to live I can’t die (but you can) In order to live and let live I must (eventually) die

Puzzles can be solved Problems can only be exchanged

You’ll know you’re talking to God When He doesn’t talk back Yet you still have your answer

Self-flattery will get you everywhere but there’s nowhere left to go

It didn’t matter that I’d been scrupulously carbon neutral; my interlocutors persisted until I realized that the desire to make… had left a vast carbon footprint o…

Just as Tastes like chicken is code for I only want chicken I don’t know what I want

Once the highly educated noticed t… in Buddhism right thought leads to right speech and right ac… it was only a matter of time before Mindfulness became