Self Aware

There are few things more disheartening to witness than the bile that small-minded people of inferior ability tend to direct…

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This essay is adapted from Traversal. Just before the eleven-year-old Walt Whitman dropped out of school to begin his first…

The measure of growth is not how much we have changed, but how harmoniously we have combined our changes with…

Long before he became the world's most popular neurologist, Oliver Sacks was a twenty-seven-year-old medical resident on his first job…

“Sincerely,” The poet Jane Hirshfield wrote in her beautiful inquiry about the creative endeavor, “The world and the self begin…

“Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God,” the trailblazing astronomer and leading…

In recent seasons of existence, I have had the opportunity to reflect on the trajectory of my life, not planned…

“To decide whether life is worth living is to answer a fundamental philosophical question,” Albert Camus famously wrote – a…

“Compassion,” Karen Armstrong wrote in her moving meditation on the true meaning of the Golden Rule, “It asks us to…