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... into focus, dressed in colors dark as the night. At first the stranger’s words were muted by the music blaring through my headphones — my temporary barrier against the many interlocutors who feel entitled to interaction once they notice my limp. This visibility is something I cannot hide, and I don’t...

... investigation into the nature of nature in general and human nature in particular. It’s an investigation that reveals to her — and through her to us — the God she sought. The key to her discovery is the phenomenon of “emergence”: the natural process of evolutionary mutation whereby something new, greater...

... of the most important keys to a healthy, meaningful life. People yearn to be a part of something. When we are a part of something, we feel whole. When we see how things connect and relate to form a whole, they make sense and resonate: they come alive. In 1973 I arrived at Camp Swig, a Reform Jewish summer...

... Lear snaps to his daughter, that nothing will come of nothing. On the contrary, the lesson of tragic humanism is that something will come only of nothing; and that those who fear that nothingness—those who refuse to acknowledge this thing of darkness as their own, who can see it only as a monstrous...

...). / The old adage, “Know your customer,” has been carried to extremes. Are these invasions of privacy starting to unravel our very notion of personhood? We may ask ourselves whether these invasions of privacy are something new, or whether they are merely contemporary versions of perennial patterns...

...Cassandra Conlin Conservative lawmakers and business leaders continue to exalt Atlas Shrugged as a kind of right-wing Bible. Why does this book excite so many? Might progressives have something to learn from its call to uncage our creative desire? ...

... Fasting for TomFastingZipper for something discovered,like had something them—and least...

... to twist and turn my body in inviting ways; perhaps I can seduce the threat into something else. I wake up. The man is still here, pressing down on me, hands on my throat. I wake up again. He is no longer on top of me, but his presence lingers in the room. Creative Commons/Charlie Stinchcomb...

... world. Then, according to those ancient philosophers, something tragic happened. We were born! Each of us at birth was thrust into human flesh. Each and every one of us took on a physical body. The tragedy of this incarnation...

... to be? These are the generations of heaven and earth. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. The thesis is that there was a beginning. The thesis is there was an ending and the ending was exile. The thesis is that something sweet came before the horror. Something Edenic before the bloody ash. How does it feel...

... the blood of the world into one spot & makes the living boy’s brother something dead, yes, but also something else, another body buried in a story that none of us is aware of. poetry Kaffiyeh on Mississippi Avenue...

... intuition we all share about the nature of reality: Something can’t come from nothing. Some­ thing must “go all the way down” or all the way back. Even the Big Bang must have had some kind of “fuse.” (Religions, of course, say it was God.) James was teaching around the turn of the last century...

... chaplain. Reece describes the premature infants as “blue, spider-delicate in nests of tubes … their faces resigned in plastic attics.” It seems reckless to let oneself love something so fragile, so unlikely to survive, but Reece affirms, almost as if to convince himself, “It is correct to love even...

... is a confluence of impermanent and interdependent processes that manifest “something.” “Something” is in scare quotes because it’s not a thing at all in the usual sense: it is a no-thing in that it doesn’t have any form or characteristics of its own. The most common Buddhist term for that no-thing is shunyata...

... plants. have left. So my challenge to you is a very simple one. It is to get involved We talk about saving the planet. Those of us working on envi­ in these issues. This is not something that may happen at some ronmental issues have been talking...