I’m doing a terrible job talking a break from SM, but I just had to share this quote from James Ishmael Ford, friend, Zen teacher, and UU minister. It jives well with my own experience: There seems to be a deep truth that the universal is pretty much only met within the

“He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.” — Socrates

As if the warmth of the day did not give into thin night air, as if summer had no end and no beginning, the leaves shine brilliant-red, one hundred thousand sharp-edged proclamations of now. —Nadia Colburn

The human spirit is virtually indestructible, and its ability to rise from the ashes remains as long as the body draws breath. —Alice Miller, For Your Own Good

Water flows in and through us. Running, we are rivers. Seated, we are pools. Our brains and hearts are three-quarters water, our skin is two-thirds water; even our bones are watery. We were swimmers before we were walkers, slow-turning like breath-divers in the dark flotation

Physics is cool.

Where am I? Yes, that is the question. But there is no answer— There is only the wind. —Ryokan

The greater your need to feel superior to others, the more you diminish yourself.

Silence is a fence around wisdom. —Rabbi Akiva

The great ocean is deep, immeasurable, unfathomable. So also is our existence. —Buddha

I find ecstasy in living; the mere sense of living is joy enough. —Emily Dickinson

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence. (Hanlon’s Razor)

Having lost a mother to Alzheimer’s disease, I have found and even deeper appreciation for walking down memory lane. I have many fond memories of her, and her gentle, strong, loving, dignified, old soul way of being in the world.

When listening to the trees rustling in the wind, or contemplating the mathematics the models such a sublime phenomenon, I am equally at home. They are two perspectives on the same miracle.

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I was listening to Dolly Parton’s passionate plea in her song Jolene, and thinking how we live in a universe with magnetars, supernovae, and tsunamis, and this sentient being, this woman, pleading to not be separated from another being she dearly loves. How wonderful, vast, and

I recall a day, decades ago, when I visited the lovely Swarthmore College campus for a walk, some reading, and reflection. I remember walking into a copse of trees with a babbling brook running through it. I found a spot under a boulder, close to the rushing water, and sat down.

Metascience — the study of how science works — is gaining urgency, and will be essential for navigating an uncertain future. In his latest Undark column, SFI Resident Professor Brandon Ogbunu explores how metascience offers critical insights into the structures, incentives, and

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The wet grass is bright— Here, this moment, is a peace unsurpassed, and I am washed clean. —Ch’iu Wei