“Be here now” is familiar spiritual advice. To live in the timeless present is to be one with the One, to know God … or at least have a simpler, happier life. Ah, there’s always the rub of intention. Can’t try, can’t think, can’t conceptualize your way to true nowness. Indeed, if you overthink “here” Read More …
But Circular Reasoning 2 wasn’t quite right, I thought, because hands aren’t part of the inner loops. So how to convey a tortured soul whose mind was spinning in circles. Like this loopy intuitive result. Hope I’m not spoiling it by talking about it. Feel free to use these cartoons, by the way … as long Read More …
But the thought balloon version of “Circular Reasoning 1” doesn’t quite express how much we torture our thoughts and ourselves to get our ideas of ourselves to fit. Here’s a second attempt. A lot of logic is circular. Say I’m mean to people who I think are mean to me. That makes them upset, which lets Read More …
I wanted to illustrate the illusion of self-concept. Are we who we imagine ourselves to be? Especially if we’re imagining ourselves imagining ourselves? And what if it doesn’t stop there?
Boredom is peace with an edge. “All man’s miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone,” wrote Blaise Pascal in Pensees. What keeps people from truly being in touch with their deepest selves is that feeling we call boredom. But don’t avoid it. Embrace it. Wait. That edge of fear, disgust or pain that Read More …
Know why nothing is absolute? (Or as metaphysicians might say, “Nothing is Everything.” Bad cosmic joke.) Because each of us has two infinite halves. (Go with me … this isn’t meant as fact.) Maybe multiple infinite halves. Take mind and soul. Can you love a person with all your soul and but not all your Read More …
If people won’t go to confession, take confession to them. Just another random thought I had the other day. Philly’s Wing Bowl is a spectacle of slobbering slobs gnawing chicken knuckles while the cleavagely enhanced parade and manage the paper plates. Perhaps, some might say, just the sort of thing where at least a gent Read More …