Repair the Past We are told, “Repair the past, prepare the future.” How can we repair the past? We cannot change it,...
Essay Articles
NEW—Lying to Myself
Lying to Myself [references to "work" mean "work on myself"--increased self-knowledge] I lie to myself, and regardless...
Conscience—if not guilt or learned right and wrong, what is it?
When we hear the word “conscience,” almost always our associations take over, and it’s already too late. Whether we...
APPROPRIATE NOW—The Rising Generation
For years I had wondered how young people in general, especially those born after 1985, would take over adult...
A Report on the War on Conscience
The Fathers of the Church have, at long last, succeeded. The Catholic Army of the War on Conscience has been hugely...
I Have. I Need.
I believe that I have money, a car, a house, and things. I believe that I have relatives, friends, a partner,...
Being is self-assembling
Like in some computer-generated graphic implosion, each piece of our being fits perfectly with each other piece. If...
Subjectivity
The world is one thing, right? Anyone can see that. People have different views of it, but it’s still only one...
Forgiving
The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he...
Staying with a Disturbance
From out of the blue, someone has criticized me. There was malice in their tone of voice, a wish to hurt. I am...
The Prodigal Son Returns
When World War II ended, among the displaced persons in Europe were orphaned children, children who had survived in...
On the Side of the Angels
Perhaps the most shocking thing Mrs. Staveley ever said to me was that one should not be identified with the Higher. I...