Category: philosophical counseling

• February 2, 2013

  Philosophical improv no. 1: Manifestation Thesis

  In this short YouTube video, I explore the way in which radiance manifests itself. In my forthcoming book, Radiance: An Essay for Unsettled Time, I discuss the important connection between goodness and beauty.
• February 1, 2013

  A nature walk (An excerpt from Radiance)

  A short excerpt from Radiance: An Essay for Unsettled Time. The book is in progress. * A nature walk is no easy thing. The mind wishes to attach itself to fond or tortured memories, the mouth to rupture solitude or its communion with coursing things. Or thoughts stretch in the direction of a goal for walking…
• January 31, 2013

  Mountain life (An excerpt from Radiance)

  A short excerpt from Radiance: An Essay for Unsettled Time. The book is in progress. * Out the window, snow begins falling on sienna; it is collecting fast. Until now, it has rained warmly three days straight and the ravines, dug out and meandering down the mountainside, had been rolling with sound, the green beneath the…
• January 30, 2013

  Doing what comes naturally

  If it isn’t easy to do, then it’s not the thing to do. Deliberations require lack of spontaneity and struggle a lack of understanding, but graceful action comes quite naturally. Cutting wood is only hard until the trunk and I are on friendly terms and then the neck yields to the axe’s touch. Being courageous is…
• January 29, 2013

  ‘Luckiness is not getting what you want…’

  Luckiness is not getting what you want but realizing that it wasn’t worth wanting after all. This is called adulthood. Unluckiness is getting what you want, only to grow thoughtlessly into old age. This is called childhood. Also: prose.