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The Ego’s Last Possession
The Will That Tries to Surrender Many years ago, I encountered a short piece by Meister Eckhart entitled “On True Obedience.” Eckhart was a…
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The Universe in the Language of Information
The Reality of What Emerges A warm cup rests between our hands. We recognize its temperature before we give it a number. The warmth…
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The Intelligence We Cannot Imagine
Two Puddles Under the Same Sky After rain, a shallow pool of water remains in a backyard in Japan. Someone walking past might notice…
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What Are We Growing Toward?
The Tiredness That Rest Does Not Reach There are evenings when we close the computer and wonder why we feel so exhausted. We have…
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When Knowledge Turns the Neighbor into an Enemy
A Sentence Heard at Mass On Sunday, my wife and I attended Mass. The second reading came from Romans 13:8–10, where Paul recalls several…
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Living, Fast and Slow
The Drama Hidden in Pace One of the recurring dramas of everyday life is the tension between moving slowly and moving fast. Advice about…
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The Thinker, the Translator, and the Audience
A Small Name for a Larger Question Living outside Japan, I sometimes encounter a new Japanese expression after the conversation around it is already…
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The Thought Within Every Practice
When the Formula Comes Before the Question Many students first encounter mathematics as a sequence of instructions. Memorize the formula, identify the type of…
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The Right to Understand
The Documents That Refused to Speak Most people have encountered a document that appears to be written in English but does not seem addressed…
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The Currency of International Authority
A Court Performing Its Duty and Losing Its Credit An international court issues an arrest warrant. From inside the institution, the act appears straightforward.…
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Activity Without Alarm
The Body That Changes After Dark A respiratory illness can feel like two different conditions depending on the hour. During the day, a cough…
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The Universal Reader Who Does Not Exist
The Feeling of a Clean Page Some pages feel clean before we have decided whether we agree with them. The sentences proceed without congestion.…