By Eric Le Roy
I can’t decide whether the human mind is an ingeniously crafted, highly resilient aircraft, purposeful in its mission, and headed somewhere as it navigates the turbulence of the skies – or is it (the human mind) nothing but turbulence itself – often of the open air?
Insanity is a universal and timeless issue. No culture has ever been … Read the rest
There are people who leave religion because they hate it, and people who leave because they loved something in it and could no longer pretend. I understand the second group better. Not because they are smarter, but because they are usually gentler. They are not trying to win arguments. They are trying to stop lying to themselves.
Most believers I have met are not hungry for control. They are tired, … Read the rest
In December, cities rehearse kindness. Streets that were ugly in November suddenly glow. People who do not speak the rest of the year wish each other peace, as if peace were a weather forecast instead of a fragile human decision.
This is why old ghost stories belong to winter. Not because chains and spectres are real, but because the past and the future are always negotiating with the present, and … Read the rest
