by Jeremy Ostler | Nov 16, 2019 | Personal Development
When everything is going right, we think we see things as they are. It is only when things go wrong that we are awakened to just how complex the world really is. But it isn’t the complexity of life that unnerves us. It is our obliviousness of the fact. It is the fact...
by Jeremy Ostler | Aug 2, 2019 | Culture, How To, Personal Development, Relationships
Thinking critically is necessary to prevent our individual and collective confidence from soaring unjustifiably to dangerous heights. Of course, to think critically, humility is required. Absent humility, we wouldn’t have the good sense to question the accuracy of our...
by Jeremy Ostler | Aug 1, 2019 | Culture, How To, Personal Development, Relationships
“Most of us have two lives: the life we live and the un-lived life within us. Between the two stands resistance.” ~Steven Pressfield It’s time to upgrade your life. You know it, and I know it. But how? How do you upgrade your life when every past effort seems to have...
by Jeremy Ostler | Jul 30, 2019 | Culture, How To, Personal Development, Relationships, Religion
You are not who you think you are. In the immortal words of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, “We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.” Tragically, for far too many, this human experience has...
by Jeremy Ostler | Jul 23, 2019 | Culture, Religion
Atheism, both morally and logically, is riddled, in my opinion, with problems. But (other than the fact that God exists, of course) its fatal flaw is this: For atheists, there is nothing worth dying for. Or rather, the idea that there can be something worth dying for...
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