Sound and fury

The world has never been noisier and more clamorous than it is right now.

Words are useful to the extent they prepare us for silence.

Between furies and flags

Whereas intelligence is featureless, detached and not easy to discern, ignorance is blazingly obvious.

Dhamma

We’ve got to go deeper than what happens, aka the news of the day. What’s underneath all that? What’s going on a fathom or two below the froth and roar of the surf?

Out of season

When conflict rages and confusion abounds, normal describes the few, not the many.

Me and mine

Why on earth are humans in this predicament? Same as always—selfishness, mainly.