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Loving is Letting Go

Herbert Einstein’s Long-Lost Theory of Absolutivity

The Peaceful Game of Bowling & My Crazy Ideas to Scale It Up

Remembering the “Better Angels of Our Nature”* on a Day of Love

This Single Issue Creates 50% of Our Daily Problems

The Buzz

Memories — How Real Are They?

Hazards of Taking Thermodynamics Too Seriously

Book Review — “Descartes’s Secret Notebook” by Amir D. Aczel

The Day Is Done, Almost

Time is a Mystery. But Timing is Not.

Olfactory Pleasures of Running

The Miracle of James Hampton

The Sailboat

Complexity — The Chief Culprit Why We Don’t Get Involved But Stay Passive

Nobel-Winner Poet Tomas Tranströmer’s Diamonds

Reluctant Hero and the Contradiction of American Leadership

Love Me Like a Stranger

The Supreme Goal of Earthly Life: To Be Unshakeable

It Takes a Lot of Guts to be “Normal”

The Neurological Reason Why It’s Hard to Quit or Acquire a Habit

A Prayer for Engineers

How Many Reasons You Have Not to Be The Person You Want to Be? (Part 2)

How Many Reasons You Have Not to be The Person You Want to Be? (Part 1)

My Kind of Thanksgiving...

How Joe Succeeded in Getting Whelmed by Life

Why I’ll Never Know Your Real Self

Sinning and the Delicate Art of Archery

In Praise of the “Optimal” — the Necessary Condition of Freedom

How to Write the Truth Without Hurting the Ones You Still Love

Research Confirms the Deadliest Emotion for Marriages and Relationships

The Genius of Painter Edouard Vuillard

I Wish I Were as Mindful as the Amazing Sparrows

“Blue Origin” — Why I Felt Sad Watching Jeff Bezos Fly To Near-Space

Joan Didion: “The Year of Magical Thinking” (2005) Knopf

Are You a Live Advertisement of Someone Else’s Screwup?

When I Speak, I Take Refuge in Your Goodwill

The Priceless Lesson Of Two Cars Parked Too Close To One Another

4 Stages of Approaching the Divine

The Day I Lost My Mother I Felt the Most Intense Focus I’d Ever Felt in My Life

Zigzag Career Paths of Famous People

6 Time-Tested Must Rules for Success in Life

Hugh Prather: “Spiritual Notes to Myself: Essential Wisdom for the 21st Century” (1998) Conari Press

The Real Reason Why We Manufacture Fear

An Old Fallacy: “Argument from Authority”

Growing Up Strong

How to Live the Questions without Answers in an Age of Infinite Suggestions

My Uncomfortable Relationship with Humor and Spirituality

A Writing Niche that Can Save the Earth

7 Hidden Benefits of Loneliness

As I Start with Butterflies in the Pit of My Stomach...