Reflections on meaning and truth, the sacred, life and death, wisdom for living, and love, drawn from Wayne’s diaries and letters.
9 diaries · Philosophy Diaries
Life, Death & Time · 2023
There is merit in reflecting on how the world changes – and even more, how our personal world changes. There are three insights I’ve gained…
Life, Death & Time · 2021
What makes it hard, I suppose, is that we have been living through a period of slow time, when getting to the end of the…
Life, Death & Time · 2018
We had a friend die unexpectedly this year. It’s like being punched and winded, shocked with disbelief, then wanting to lash out in anger, but…
Life, Death & Time · 2018
Life is suffering. And the root of suffering is attachment. At least, that’s what Buddhism teaches. I don’t fully accept that, but it’s a good…
Life, Death & Time · 2017
In my own life, which has been filled with existential angst since I was 17, I have arrived at two answers to life’s impermanence. They…
Life, Death & Time · 2015
When the heart is full and the days are long, it is hard to imagine anything else. And yet, as night follows day and winter…
Life, Death & Time · 2007
We live in the eternal present. While I am alive, the present is all that is real. Reflections on the past and speculations about the…
Life, Death & Time · 1999
Naturally enough, as the year begins to ebb, my reflective mood rises like the tide. Somehow, the psycho-numerological effect of 2000 weaves its spell on…
Life, Death & Time · 2001
This New Year marks the true beginning of the third millennium, according to Arthur C Clarke in his book, Greetings Carbon-Based Bipeds. Unlike last new…