Darwin’s theorem, stripped to its barest implication: survival is adaptation, not grandeur. The mighty Tyrannosaurus Rex, apex predator, succumbed to external forces beyond its control—cosmic,…

The body’s pains, like its pleasures, often occupy a less conspicuous role than they deserve—as ghostly premises behind our choices, intentions, and delays. Think of…

To the local, the known neighborhood glows in intricate shades, layers of personal details and familiar intricacies. Beyond it, the unfamiliar places—the lives, cultures, and…

“I owe everything to what everything now deprives me of.” —Paul Valéry In the strange calculus of self-formation, one might say that what a person…

“Hell is other people.” — Jean-Paul Sartre To perceive is to be perceived—an irony not lost on those who would prefer to feel autonomous, self-contained,…

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson A perception…

Heraclitus’ insight that “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river, and he’s not the same man” lays…

“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.” — Carl Rogers In the wisdom of Rogers…

[Human created passage, “Seed”:] Advances in communication networking have surpassed the ability of the social hierarchy to control its message. Religion objects to its own…

“I am a machine and it is my function to lie to myself,” stated, does not confess but clarifies: in a moment of lucidity, a…