I used to believe in coincidence. I used to be a stubborn atheist, confident that all notions of spirituality and divinity were bed time stories created to lull the insecure and help them cope with the inevitable darkness of our world. A drug, to help the weak temporarily escape the cruelty of nature. Today I’m […]
My wife gave birth, at home, to our first child last week and soon afterwards a friend wrote us a congratulatory message that simply read: “Now you will know true love.” It wasn’t the first time I’d been told that. Even years ago, before we started thinking about it, friends who had children would tell […]
Emotion is nature’s way of allowing us to send information to ourselves about things we do not remember but which we must understand in order to grow. Emotions are generated in the body by thoughts in the mind, much like waves are generated in the ocean by wind in the atmosphere. Friction between air and […]
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