I ran into a loose shower knob recently, and I see how it is like me. Properly functioning shower knobs are easily turned off… just keep turning until it stops. This loose knob did not work that way; I could easily turn it past the off position and it would drip. In order to turn… Continue reading Are You Motivated More by Love, Fear, or Hatred?

We see other countries spending more on defense so we spend more on defense. Other countries see us spending more on defense so they spend more on defense. When karma is spoken of as a wheel and the only way to stop it is to get off the wheel, this example seems apt. It’s also a good… Continue reading Defense Spending

The Serenity Prayer—commonly, though uncertainly attributed to 20th century American theologian Reinhold Niebuhr— makes a stark call to thinking responsibly: God, give me grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, Courage to change the things which should be changed, and the Wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. There is a… Continue reading Serenity Prayer

Robert Anton Wilson (“Cosmic Trigger, Vol. I”), after witnessing his daughter forgive her muggers, gained new insight into the meaning of karma: “Karma, in the original Buddhist scriptures, is a blind machine; in fact, it is functionally identical with the scientific concept of natural law. Sentimental ethical ideas about justice being built into the machine,… Continue reading Karma