RI DAILY

Manhattan's little, quieter island and beyond

Reporting Roosevelt Island since sunrise.

RI DAILY

Manhattan's little, quieter island and beyond

Reporting Roosevelt Island since sunrise.

Month: June 2011

Dizzying Conflicts: Thoughtful Meditation On What We Really Are

This Internal-External Realities Meditation comes from the final section of A Million Different Things: Meditations of The World’s Happiest Man. It’s concerned with the strange, maybe imaginary, border between our internal and external realities.

Words and Ultimate Reality, Paradox With Time

Words and ultimate reality… To know something about ultimate reality, must we put it in words? Must insight about conscious awareness be verbal? If either thing is true, we’re in trouble because our languages haven’t been very good at explaining…

The Revolution We Forgot: Notes From the 60s Hippie Movement

Bring back the hippies! Where di letting conservatives get a foothold get us? Hippies were anti-Trump before the MAGA cult. We took on wiser devils in Johnson, Kissinger and Nixon, and they’ve tried to beat us back ever since. Today,…

A Million Different Things… And Night, The Endless Story

That’s what life is, you know, a ramble. I changed my thinking a while back about how all that apparent motion goes. Like most, I’ve thought of my life’s course as passing along a trail, following a thread with a…

The Truth Behind Going Home Illusions

About Going Home Illusions… There must once have been at least a jiffy of wholeness, a twinkle in the cohesion of seamless belonging. Every cell may contain the residues in its universal library. Our desire to rejoin seasons every step,…

On the Fly, Up, Out or Beyond Evolution

Beyond evolution…? For most of us, a realization that there may be no God and that the whole shebang we’re living is a meaningless hodgepodge is as demoralizing as anything else percolating through the shrouds in those lost hours between…

Was It Evolution… and Now?

Was It Evolution? is from Amazing: Truths About Conscious Awareness What’s next for evolution after a community conquers the challenges hovering outside and lurking inside, the great mass of them anyway? It weakens. It must. Just as rivers slow when banks are…

Inner Voice Meditation: How To Listen for Real and True

Meditation on an Inner Voice is #13 from the middle section, Noon, in A Million Different Things: Meditations of The World’s Happiest Man. It’s concerned with an inner voice or spiritual helper.