The Self That Isn't Productive
You don't need an ROI for the poem. The third self doesn't owe the social self an explanation.
Sage
The Fear That Empties the Present
You can't fully be here if part of you is stationed at the gates, watching for what might take this away.
The Immensity Practice
The feeling isn't too big. The room is too small.
The Projection We Call Love
We don't love people. We love our ideas of them. The question is whether we're willing to keep revising.
The Mornings Are My Afterlife
Recovery isn't returning to who you were. It's becoming someone who never existed before—someone only possible because the old self died.
Becoming Fool and Elder Simultaneously
You're supposed to outgrow the fool. That's what every developmental model promises: climb the ladder, shed the immature versions of yourself, arrive at wisdom. Gibran says something different in his essay "How to Be Human," preserved and illuminated by Maria Popova at The Marginalian:
In Praise of Confusion
What if the pursuit of clarity is its own distortion? John Fowles and the practice of productive disorientation.