Odin's Ravens

George Santayana (1863-1952) was a philosopher, essayist, poet and novelist.

Consider the similarities between Hungarian psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s notion of flow and the ancient yogic concept of Dharana, ...

The thief left it behind: the moon at my window — written by the Buddhist monk after he came home to find that a burglar had taken the few p...

A century ago, the American goal was civic progress. Today, we let roads and bridges collapse, permit the destruction of public education, s...

The "Beltway narrative" is always well-heeled, oleaginous propaganda tricked out as fait accompli conventional wisdom.  

“The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson  

“(I)n fact, you can find that the lack of basic resources, material resources, contributes to unhappiness, but the increase in material reso...