Sam Harris
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This Is All There Ever Is
One of the things that most amuses me is people’s desire to escape the moment they find themselves in. Earlier today, I was in the car with my parents. We had no real plans, only an hour’s journey home, then… Continue reading
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Everyone You Love Will Die (Yourself Included)
Everyone I love will die, likely after cruel illness. Death awaits us all, and yet we speak of it seldom. Why is this? Too depressing? Perhaps. And yet, without exception, it is the fate that awaits us all. I have… Continue reading
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Podcasts I love, and a pledge to write daily
Podcasts are an extraordinary medium. In listening to interesting people talk to interesting people, we are given privileged access to private conversations teeming with compelling ideas. There are some qualifiers to this, however. In line with this, how do I… Continue reading
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The Bookshelf in September: Ultra-Violence, Ultra-Unprocessed Food, and Rational Spirituality
Welcome back, dear friends, to what is now the fourth edition of The Bookshelf. I had somehow not saved the original completed draft of this month’s review and lost it. Scraping the outer echelons of belatedness, I almost couldn’t find… Continue reading
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Thoughts on Thought
“Rest in great natural peace. This exhausted mind, beaten helplessly by karma and neurotic thought, like the relentless fury of the pounding waves, in the infinite ocean of samsara.” Nyoshul Rinpoche … The alarm rings. Consciousness is returned from a… Continue reading
The Eye of an Archer 