Jacob Needleman on Consciousness & Our Future
In his upcoming book An Unknown World: Notes on the Meaning of the Earth, Jacob Needleman discusses "an entirely new kind of relationship between consciousness and nature, between consciousness and the earth, between consciousness and...
Interview with Poet Hal Sirowitz on “Being Human”
We've published Hal Sirowitz's wonderful poetry in earlier issues of Tiferet. You'll enjoy this recent interview with him on "Being Human." Be sure to scroll down - there are two parts to the interview!
http://www.riffraf.typepad.com/
The Scale of the Universe
I found an amazing website that allows you to see the scale of the "stuff" of our universe. From atoms to planets, scroll the slider to see how big or small the items of...
addendum: on i-it and the god we repress
god is the between of an i and a thou, and it is precisely this existential dialogue with all that exists, our "essential deed" as buber called it, that which we repress within us...
“My advice is not to make a problem of yourself…”
http://minddeep.blogspot.com/2012/03/there-is-no-problem.html
Ajahn Sumedho:
My advice is not to make a problem of yourself. Give up making a problem about yourself, or how good or bad you are, or what you should or shouldn’t be.
via MARGUERITE MANTEAU-RAO's...
Just One Thing. Rick Hanson Ph.D.
Home > Blog > Fear > Embrace Fragility Could it crack?
The Practice:
Embrace fragility.
Why?
The truth of anything is like a mosaic with many tiles, many parts.
One part of the truth of things is that they are...
BEAUTIFUL RUINS — beautifully insightful
Sometimes a book comes along that moves me on such a deep level that it is difficult to words to what has occurred in me. For 2012, that book is BEAUTIFUL RUINS, by Jess...
Meditating on the Colorado Fires
Wildfire after wildfire has been raging here in Colorado over the last few days. First I learned of the fire outside Fort Collins, 90 minutes from Denver. Although far enough away to be out...
The Mnemosyne Weekly: Poem Ten
NOTE: This content is from my blog, Bareback Alchemy. If links here aren't working, please try there: http://melissastuddard.blogspot.com/2012/05/mnemosyne-weekly-poem-ten.html
W. B. Yeats
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
Photo by Kenneth Allen
This week, thanks to the recommendation of Robert...
Anarchist for Love
Why not be an anarchist for love?
Explode as gently as a rose.
Can Krishna's sky be scrawled on a wall?
Does Mary appear in a fractal of shattered glass?
The face of chaos, like the face of...