Contemplations

Random Thoughts & Ponderings

Contemplation: An Appropriate Degree of Disconnection

Today, the advent of the Internet, cell phone networks, social media, and the prevalence of digital cameras everywhere has created...

Contemplation: Aligning Your Thoughts & Actions With Your Prayers

If that for which you pray is still far from you, you may be praying for one thing, while living...

Contemplation: The Silence of the Lambs

When I was a kid, I somehow got it in my head that I wanted to start collecting butterflies...

Contemplation: Can We Wait Until The Next Extinction-Level Impact Event?

Cover Image: Rendition of the Chicxulub crater near the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico Unfortunately, according to historical precedent, statistically the...

Contemplation: God as Truth

I am increasingly coming to believe that God is Truth; or rather, Truth is God… I recently touched on the...

Contemplation: New Religion = New Tyranny?

I recently read the following passage in The Unbearable Wholeness of Being by Ilia Delio, Founder ofย  the Center for...

Contemplation: Everything Happens for a Reason

I posted this thought on Facebook awhile back, but have since expanded on the idea, thought I’d share it here:...

Contemplation: The Gospel of Living & Doing

As Tolstoy conveyed in his various religious writings, after doing his own translation of the gospels he determined that when...

Contemplation: Rendering Unto Caesar

I’m currently in the throes of this amazing 1030-page novel, The Instructions by Adam Levin… …and in the process, I...

Contemplation: Peace Within

I recently read the following passage by philosopher James Allen in his collection Mind is the Master, and it really...

Contemplation: Ending the War on Drugs by Criminalizing ALL Drugs

I recently read A Naked Singularity by Sergio de la Pava, and it was one of the most engaging novels...

Contemplation: Respect vs. Respect

I recently read the following Truth somewhere online, and it resonated with me, thought I’d share (reworked the language a...

Contemplation: Monotheism

Many of you know I consider myself a That said, I recently read the following passage in Franciscan friar, ecumenical...