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I have a difficult time saying anything is true. I often add minor disclaimers to what most people consider facts as a result: I believe that... (I accept a thing to be true and understand others may not) I think that… (this is my current belief, but it may change by the end of the sentence) I feel like… (I’m being gentle by insinuating that if we disagree my claim may not be rational) To my understanding… (I have evidence to support a belief, but I’m open to being wrong) I r

My second venture to a Buddhist temple was two nights ago, where the doors are open once per week for community meditations. My meditation practice has gone from weekly to daily over the last two years, and the goodness it has brought me is notable. This pulled me toward a book called, The Science of Enlightenment – How Meditation Works by Shinzen Young. To my understanding, Shinzen was a PhD candidate in Japanese studies in California, and his thesis took him to Japan to st

I've been feeling called and motivated to do everything, and I wish I could identify where the beginning was. The truth is that every action ever performed was the result of every moment before it, so to explain why I decided to begin a nonprofit or why I'm journaling publicly today feels like a futile endeavor. My objective had been my career since starting college in 2015, though then I really thought I would work with high energy gamma ray blazars at Goddard Spaceflight ce