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Wonder will Save the World: with thoughts from Heidegger

I wonder how many of our problems today are linked to the loss of our sense of wonder. I had a client this morning who was lamenting his inability to be playful with his wife and kids. His is a common story of a work-from-home, self-employed parent and spouse who has a difficult time separating…

November 5, 2021 in Musings.

Heidegger’s “Profound Boredom”: using boredom to cultivate the soul

Boredom is one of those self-defining words. For me, the experience of ‘bore-dom’ feels like something boring a hole through my soul, like a hand drill boring a hole through wood. Boredom is a suffering, yet a suffering caused not by something happening, but by nothing happening. (Just as I am editing this article to…

June 19, 2021 in Musings.

“I Think, therefore I Am”: the root of a modern trend towards nihilism

“Cognito, ergo sum” (I think, therefore I am), set the tone for Western thought for the last 400 years. When Descartes first penned these words in 1637 he meant to establish a sure ground on which to develop a method for finding truth. What could be more beyond doubt than the phenomenon of one’s own…

July 15, 2020 in Musings.

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