According to the Buddha, the failure to recognize the illusion of the self is the source of all ignorance and unhappiness. It is only by renouncing t….

Man first creates the universe in his image, and then turns round to say that God created man in his image... As Voltaire quipped, if God created man….

Depression: the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating..

Wine is one of the most complex of all beverages: the fruit of a soil, climate, and vintage, digested by a fungus through a process guided by the cul….

While conversion of sugars to ethanol is the predominant reaction, it is only one of potentially thousands of biochemical reactions taking place duri….

Self-deception is a defining part of our human nature. By recognizing its various forms in ourselves and reflecting upon them, we may be able to disa….

There are essentially three types of people: those who love life more than they fear it, those who fear life more than they love it, and those who ha….

The notion of dream interpretation far antedates the birth of psychoanalysis, and probably served an important function in most, if not all, historic….

A man shrinks or expands into the degree and nature of his ambition. Ambition needs to be cultivated and refined, and yet has no teachers..