"We speak of the sun's light as "pouring down on us," as "pouring over us" in all directions. Yet it's never poured out. Because it doesn't really pour; it extends. Its beams ("aktai") get their name from their extension ("ekteinesthei"). To see the nature of a sunbeam, look at light as it falls through a …
A Perpetual Spring
"No carelessness in your actions. No confusion in your words. No imprecision in your thoughts. No retreating into your own soul, or trying to escape it. No overactivity. They kill you, cut you with knives, shower you with curses. And that somehow cuts your mind off from clearness, and sanity, an self-control, and justice? A …
To Live a Good Life
"To live a good life: We have the potential for it. If we can learn to be indifferent to what makes no difference. This is how we learn: by looking at each thing, both the parts and the whole. Keeping in mind that none of them can dictate how we perceive it. They don't impose …
The Compulsion to Truth
"All of us are working on the same project. Some consciously, with understanding; some without knowing it. (I think this is what Heraclitus meant when he said that "those who sleep are also hard at work" - that they too collaborate in what happens.) Some of us work in one way, some in others. And …
So true…I’ll gladly change
"If anyone can refute me - show me I'm making a mistake or looking at things from the wrong perspective - I'll gladly change. It's the truth I'm after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance." - Marcus Aurelius He who is passionate about the truth …
Liberty and Government
"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yeild, & government to gain ground." - Thomas Jefferson In the vacuum created by the rejection of divine government, that is, a government rooted entirely in love and truth, man is left to devise for himself systems of governance which approximate its elegance, simplicity and efficacy. …
The Space Between
The most precious real estate on earth sits between stimulus and response. Most treat this space as a "no-man's land" and refuse to inhabit it for either fear or uncertainty, if they take note of it at all. They close their eyes, hold their breath and scurry across it, completely unaware of the fact that …
The Freedom to Choose
"The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose one’s attitude in any given circumstance." - Viktor Frankl Of all the freedoms that people fight for, I rarely, if ever hear talk of the …
The Right Use of Free Will: The Wild Unknown
I read a fascinating article in the NY Times yesterday about the growing popularity and plight of elephants in the Indian state of Kerala. Elephants in India were traditionally used for practical purposes, but the mechanization of work has relieved them of much of their physical labors. Nowadays they are put to work in religious …
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A Better Home
Swarming hive of huddled masses Clings to yonder tree. For he who parts for greener grasses Must see that he is free. The body cannot reach new heights When so tightly bound. A few must find a better site And signal when it's found.
Gregory Hake 