The Zen masters have the right idea-no pain no gain: thwack a silly nebbish and he'll remember it far longer and more indelibly than any words you m…

- Kenny Smith

In late modernity we grow more and more accustomed to politicians and public figures who are indebted to their appetites for their "values," to their…

- Kenny Smith

Education in philosophy is energy speaking to energy, a higher perspective of spirit that is trying to awaken its next natural generation to somethin…

- Kenny Smith

Instant enlightenment. A quintessential modernism, culture and religion accommodated to the age of fast food and bumper stickers. But psyche and sp…

- Kenny Smith

What may be the significance of so many forms of "spirituality" on this planet that are antagonistic to "life" - and Christianity at the head of that…

- Kenny Smith

The self-righteousness and other ego-puffery that makes missionaries and evangelists out of Christians is in truth a measure of how far they are from…

- Kenny Smith

Sadly the very thing that strikes us as obvious always defeats our thinking about it in more penetrating ways: just as the Romans said that "the goo…

- Kenny Smith

I think we all have great opportunities individually but collectively our unit is so much bigger. Collectively our unit is something I've never seen …

- Kenny Smith

Wisdom is the aristic craving for extraordinary insights, for incandescent revelations that have the power to burst through banausic and doulic ordin…

- Kenny Smith