Both sides now

The true man does not take sides. He’s hermaphroditic. He is both sides.

Family matters

The cultural mantra “Provide for my family” begs the question: Who is my family? This was Jesus’ wake-up response to his disciples when they told him his family was waiting to see him.

Now and Zen

My aim right now is to have no aim. To be aimless.

Asleep at the wheel

Gurdjieff had the view that humanity exists in a near-perpetual state of sleep. “Man lives his life in sleep, and in sleep he dies.” On the evidence—climate change, consumerism, ceaseless warring and the wanton destruction of the planet—the Russian mystic wasn’t wrong.

All and everything

I am rough and refined, healthy and sick, an old man and a boy, a sage and a fool.