“’If you are what you ought to be, you will set fire (to the world)’…conform yourself to the divine will, and you can do anything. This is exactly what Leo Tolstoy suggested when he wrote, ‘The meaning of life is to serve the force that sent you into the world…’ No matter what […]
All Posts By: Byron McCoy
Short Story
UNLINKABLE LIFE
“What sets Homo sapiens apart from other living beings—and I believe, gives us a spark of the divine—is not the ability to give answers to increasingly complicated problems…it is the willingness and capacity to wonder and inquire about things large and small that are the essence of our uniquely human consciousness.”—Arthur C. Brooks, The […]
Journal Pages
WHAT NOURISHES
“…I have found no better manual than ‘Self-Reliance’ on how, in seven steps, to rebel against a psychogenic epidemic. Step 1, according to Emerson, is to reclaim your privacy. ‘My life is for itself and not for a spectacle,’ he wrote. ‘I much prefer that I should be of a lower strain, so […]