As a child playing naked on the beach, absorbed in life and joy. He is more complete than he will ever be. The reflection in the water is his own, untouched by even his mother’s perception. He does not know the meaning of love or hate. Yet, and so, he loves with the most genuine love. He would be shocked at […]

I was well off the tourist trail, heading to Kenya through the bottom of Ethiopia, when a young Ethiopian lawyer sat down next to me on the bus. I hadn’t spoken English to anyone for a few days, so I was happy for the conversation. We covered a lot of ground and quickly realized we had […]

People can tell when you are full of confidence, and they like you. People can tell when you are full of pride, and they don’t like you. The problem is they both result in the feeling of being pretty awesome, so how do we tell them apart? It all comes down to where the sense […]

What we do in this life that we have matters. It has consequence, importance. It matters because if we didn’t exist, nothing would matter. It sounds egotistical. It sounds like I want to go back to a world where the center of the universe was earth and the humans on it. But, before dismissing the […]

Do not live for the desires of the flesh. I have a theory about what this means and why it is such an important thing across both eastern and western religions. This theory involves fatalism, psychology,  evolution, and physics.  It starts at the beginning of human history and it goes through until your death. But first […]