“All that you touch you Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth is Change,” Octavia Butler wrote in her poetic insistence that “God is Change.
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Author: Allen Bingham
I am a follower of Jesus, husband, father, and pastor of Haymount United Methodist Church in Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA.
Fox and Bear: A Tender Modern Fable About Reversing the Anthropocene Illustrated in Cut-Cardboard Dioramas
When Kurt Vonnegut reflected on the secret of happiness, he distilled it to “the knowledge that I’ve got enough.
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How to Be More Alive: Hermann Hesse on Wonder and the Proper Aim of Education
It bears repeating that what makes life livable is our ability — our willingness — to move through the world wonder-smitten by reality.
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The Experience Machine: Cognitive Philosopher Andy Clark on the Power of Expectation and How the Mind Renders Reality
Attention is less a lens on the world than a mirror for the mind. “My experience is what I agree to attend to,” William James wrote in his foundational treatise on attention in the final years of the nineteenth century.
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Wonder-Sighting on Planet Earth: The Space Telescope Eye of the Scallop
“The Eye altering alters all,” William Blake wrote not long before Darwin extolled the eye as the crown jewel of evolution — an organ of “such wonderful structure” and “inimitable perfection” that it magnetizes us to the mystery of life itself.
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Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborskas Poem Love at First Sight Illustrated
Some of us call it chance; those less at peace with the randomness that governs the universe may call it “God.
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What We Look for When We Are Looking: John Steinbeck on Wonder and the Relational Nature of the Universe
“Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recovered at will,” Baudelaire wrote — something Newton embodied in looking back on his life of revolutionary discoveries, only to see himself appearing “like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoothe
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Dead Stars: Poet Laureate Ada Limóns Stunning Love Poem to Life
“We’ve come this far, survived this much. What would happen if we decided to survive more? To love harder?” We know that the atoms composing our bodies and our brains can be traced back to particular stars that died long ago in some faraway corner of the cosmos.
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The Challenge of Closeness: Alain de Botton on Love Vulnerability and the Paradox of Avoidance
The hardest thing in life isn’t getting what we want, isn’t even knowing what we want, but knowing what to want. We think we want connection, but as soon as contact reaches deeper than the skin of being, we recoil with the terror of vulnerability.
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Wholeness and the Implicate Order: Physicist David Bohm on Bridging Consciousness and Reality
Life is an ongoing dance between the subjective reality of what it feels like to be alive, to tremble with grief, to be glad — what it feels like to be you — and the objective reality of a universe insentient to your hopes and fears, those rudiments of the imagination, the imagination at the hea
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