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...
by Jeremy Ostler | Jul 6, 2019 | Culture, How To, Personal Development, Relationships
We misunderstand love at our own peril. Indeed, our misunderstanding of what it means to love wreaks havoc on individual lives as well as society at large. Intuitively, we recognize the supremacy of love over all other principles. This is why hearing, “You don’t love...
by Jeremy Ostler | Jun 29, 2019 | Culture, How To, Personal Development
We’re terrified to learn of our badness. That isn’t to say we aren’t also good. In most cases, we most certainly are. However, “bad” and “good” are relative terms. Bad according to whom? Good according to whom? Further complicating matters, we’re conditioned,...
by Jeremy Ostler | May 25, 2019 | Culture, Personal Development
Man will go against his own interests for no other reason than to prove that he can. Indeed, to overlook just how deeply man cares about his “right” to do wrong inevitably leads to all sorts of unintended consequences. For this reason, among others,...
by Jeremy Ostler | Apr 30, 2019 | Culture, Personal Development, Uncategorized
Under narrowly defined circumstances, boredom can be a good thing. It can lead to greater levels of creativity. However, the solution to boredom is never to seek out distractions – the habit of which can be spiritually and emotionally devastating. In fact, the need to...
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