“The misconception which has haunted philosophic literature throughout the centuries is the notion of ‘independent existence.’ There is no such mode of existence; every entity is to be understood in terms of the way it is interwoven with the rest of the universe ~ Alfred North Whitehead An Ecology of Being Cycles, Process & A Different Way to View Ourselves … Read More
Direct Experience of Mystical Philosophers
As I have been preparing for my Spring Retreat I came across this quotation that I want to share, Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation. There is in the living act of perception always something that glimmers and twinkles and will not be caught, and for … Read More
An Ecology of Being
When we go on retreat we sink into ourselves, we let go of the outer world and allow ourselves to focus on the dimensions of the deep within. At first it seems only quiet and dark. At first it is challenging to let go of the surface of things. Even if we have retreated many times, for months or even … Read More