Hazlitt on Trump
“Of all modes of acquiring distinction, and, as it were, ‘getting the start of the majestic world,’ the most absurd as well as disgusting is that of setting aside the claims of others in the lump, and holding out our own particular excellence or pursuit as the only one worthContinue Reading
Pay Attention to Your Thoughts!
Things happen around us, and we react — often with emotion. Especially in crucial relationships, between friends, family, at work, and all through the human landscape — we react with emotion. But between the thing that happened (which we can usually agree on as a “fact”), and our emotional reaction,Continue Reading
The Tao Appears as Emptiness, Like the Hexagon in a Snowflake
The Tao appears as emptiness, with unreplenished hands, And in its vast profundity ‘tis like the sire of all, It smoothes the angles in our path, unravels twisted strands, Softens the glaring light, and fills the clouds of dust that fall. How pure and still the Tao is! as ifContinue Reading