Hi Baron, as a failed meditator, I much enjoyed this essay. I can’t sit still and let my mind be at peace. And yet, in the biblical story of Mary and Martha I’m much more like Mary who chose to sit at Jesus’ feet and learn from him than her sister Martha who was busy with many things. I’m very concerned about the direction of our country and feel I should DO something. The elites in congress seem bent on holding on to their money so want to withhold needed funds from the IRS for fear they’d have to pay their rightful taxes. I fear for democracy losing ground around the world. Erdogan, a dictator, was just re-elected in Turkey. Things do not look good. So I do pray, but I also want to DO something- at least write an Opinion Piece for the local paper.
"Progress had a life of its own. People contributed to it, but they they were its vassals more than its lord." "Though the first inclination is to believe that invention will save us from invention, as if addiction will save us from further addiction..." Wow. These words are prophetic. The time of Homo sapiens is fast waning, by our own hand. Perhaps we are engaged in species apoptosis--programmed death for the good the universe.
Hi Baron, as a failed meditator, I much enjoyed this essay. I can’t sit still and let my mind be at peace. And yet, in the biblical story of Mary and Martha I’m much more like Mary who chose to sit at Jesus’ feet and learn from him than her sister Martha who was busy with many things. I’m very concerned about the direction of our country and feel I should DO something. The elites in congress seem bent on holding on to their money so want to withhold needed funds from the IRS for fear they’d have to pay their rightful taxes. I fear for democracy losing ground around the world. Erdogan, a dictator, was just re-elected in Turkey. Things do not look good. So I do pray, but I also want to DO something- at least write an Opinion Piece for the local paper.
"Progress had a life of its own. People contributed to it, but they they were its vassals more than its lord." "Though the first inclination is to believe that invention will save us from invention, as if addiction will save us from further addiction..." Wow. These words are prophetic. The time of Homo sapiens is fast waning, by our own hand. Perhaps we are engaged in species apoptosis--programmed death for the good the universe.
This piece seems to be on the other side of almost all the others, like a companion piece to each of them.