Tag: purpose

• Say not ‘I have found the truth’, but rather ‘I have found a truth’.

  When I was young, I knew everything -and yet nothing, really. Things change; there is no fixed star, and when I look up with autumned eyes, even the world looks different now. But is it really? Is reality so different now from when I was a child, or does an invisible shroud already cloud my […]

  gozzter

  March 16, 2022

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  Aeon.co, Cornell University, Elders, experience, Karl Pillemer, purpose, Wisdom, youth

• On crossing a creek on a log

  For some reason, every once in a while I find I am asking myself abstruse questions. I don’t know why that is, nor what I hope to discover, even if I find an answer. One of the more recent additions to my growing list of queries is whether or not things always have to be […]

  gozzter

  November 10, 2021

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  existence, flow of a creek, forest bathing, homo proposito, purpose, Sartre, teleology

• Why is Wonder?

  Sometimes I am accosted by the strangest questions; they remind me of the unanswerable ‘why’ questions that so often bubble out of 3 year olds -the only difference, I suppose, is that I would no longer be satisfied with the unadorned ‘just because’ answers I’m sure I used to get from my frustrated parents. But […]

  gozzter

  May 5, 2021

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  Aeon.co, art, City University of New York, emergent phenomenon, emotion, experience, gratitude, Jesse Prinz, knowledge, Paul TIllich, prayer, purpose, questions, religion, René Descartes, retirement, Science, signatures, spiritual, Wonder