Letters
When The Moon Comes Home
One of the greatest benefits of looking up at the Moon everyday is that it gives us something physical in our environments to track. A reference point for the movement of time, outside of our own heads and bodies.
Attention Metaphors
Attention is intimately connected with life itself. It's not just valuable because it's useful. And the way we talk about it matters.
The Last Time
Perhaps last times are (at least) as important as first times. The more vividly we can honour both, the more we can feel the significance of each moment.
Glamorous Humility
In an ideal, wiser culture than our own, the price of changing our minds would not be very high. Indeed it would be a sign of intelligence, glamorous even.
Seeing Beyond Clichés
The problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, or unhelpful, but that they are incomplete.
Anekāntvād: The Ancient Wisdom of an Open Mind
Do you know the story about the elephant and seven blind men? Each man stands next to a different part of the animal and is asked what he makes of it. The man touching the ear says it is a fan; the man by the tails thinks it's a rope;
The Philosophical Elephant
Me being right doesn't make you wrong. A simple parable about the many sides of reality.
Window Gazing
I love how when I'm looking out at the world through a glass pane, I know intuitively that it is all outside and, for now at least, "none of it depends on me". > "Windows are, in (a) sense, a powerful existential tool: a patch of the world, arbitrarily framed, from
Eye contact
Babies and toddlers are notorious for looking at you, right in the eye. It’s a capacity that seems to diminish as we grow older.
Shadows as Things
Shadows get a bad rap. They are commonly considered evil, sinister, or at best inferior (who would ever want to live in somebody else’s shadow?). But give them a chance and you’ll discover that shadows are fascinating things. They are creative interpretations of the objects that block their
