Tag: Infinity
A Stoic Perspective: Meditating on the Ephemeral
"Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts." ~ Plotinus There are moments in life that put things into perspective; like climbing a...
Celebrating Love and Unity with the Handfasting Ceremony
Back in October, my partner and I celebrated a year of marriage by holding a handfasting ceremony. It was a small and intimate celebration...
Touching the Divine: 10 Signs You’ve had a Mystical Experience
“I don’t think the mystical experience can be verbalized. When the ego disappears, so does power over language.” ~ W.H. Auden Temporarily stepping out of...
Between Everything and Nothing: The Vicissitudes of Love and Wisdom
“Wisdom is knowing I am nothing, Love is knowing I am everything and between the two my life moves.” ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj What does it...
7 Signs You May Be a Spiritual Seeker
“What you seek is seeking you.” ~ Rumi Life is short. The universe is not. And reality? Well, it’s arguably infinite. And yet here we...
Five Ways to Become a Nexus of Creativity
“This human capacity to become a nexus of the inner and outer, of non-being and being, of what is written and what is not...
Elevator to Nirvana: The Path of Paradox
"Make no mistake about it – enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is...
Non-being, Nothingness, and the Power of the Nexus
“Thirty spokes share the wheel's hub; It is the center hole that makes it useful. Shape clay into a vessel; It is the space within that makes...
Seven Ways We are Simultaneously Worms and Gods
“Man is a worm and food for worms. This is the paradox: he is out of nature and hopelessly in it; he is dual,...
Random Enlightenment
The Philosophical Wrecking Ball: Protecting Us from Our Yearning for Certainty
“What I understand of “philosopher”: a terrible explosive in the presence of which everything is in danger.” ~ Nietzsche The thing that makes philosophy useful...
