“Tell all the truth but tell it slant.” Emily Dickenson For I was hungry, and you cut my food stamps. I was a stranger and you deported me. I was sick and you denied my healthcare. I was a child afraid to go to school and you voted with NRA. I needed a prescription for […]
Are We Afraid or Anxious? A Little Light Philosophy
An excerpt from my new book Odd One Out: Radical Revelations on Relationships, Self-Help, and Personal Growth published by Teitelbaum Publishing and available in paperback and Kindle on Amazon and others “If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, And face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the […]
The Language of Animals
Animals are nothing but the forms of our virtues and vices, wandering before our eyes, the visible phantoms of our souls. ~ Victor Hugo Men used to listen attentively to the messages of the animals; our lives, our souls, depended on it. The appearances and absences of certain animals at certain times were full of […]
The False Self
Ring out the false, ring in the true. ~ Alfred, Lord Tennyson As boys we learned that we had to find out who others wanted us to be. Then we were taught we had to become that person in order to get acceptance, appreciation, and love – things we should have gotten just for being […]
Fire
The voice at the center speaks in tongues of flame … The child in man hears his fire rise. ~ M. C. Richards The author of the quotation above, M. C. Richards, is a potter. Fire is at the center of her art, as it is at the center of much art – indeed, of […]
A Wordless Language
Nature is one of the languages God speaks. ~ Robert Bly Many men have dabbled in, even mastered, languages. We speak fluent English, manage German “ein bischen,” use a peso’s worth of Spanish, murmur French when we feel amorous. We understand well the language of commerce, of industry. We’re plainspoken about stocks and bonds. We […]
Earth, the Great Teacher
Speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee. ~ Job 12:8 So many men have been brainwashed into believing that the Earth is not alive, that it possesses no character, no feeling, and that it’s merely here to serve the insatiable demands of a greedy few. As we recover from this soul-shattering falsehood, a new […]