Always living on less than you have and more lightly than you need to.
Abeyance,
You are what you eat eats.
What an extraordinary achievement for a civilization: to have developed the one diet that reliably makes its people sick!
Well, in a world where so few of us are obliged to cook at all anymore, to choose to do so is to lodge a protest against specialization—against the total rationalization of life. Against the infiltrat...
They can print more money, he liked to say, and they can print new stocks and bonds, but they can’t print more land.
The same phenomenon that pointed to a materialist explanation for spiritual and religious belief gave people an experience so powerful it convinced them of the existence of a nonmaterial reality—the v...
The repetitive phases of cooking leave plenty of mental space for reflection, and as I chopped and minced and sliced I thought about the rhythms of cooking, one of which involves destroying the order...
So perhaps spiritual experience is simply what happens in the space that opens up in the mind when all mean egotism vanishes. Wonders (and terrors) we’re ordinarily defended against flow into our awar...
Science has little interest in, and tolerance for, the testimony of the individual; in this it is, curiously, much like an organized religion, which has a big problem crediting direct revelation too.
Policies are useful tools. Instead of prescribing highly specific behaviors, they supply us with broad guidelines that should make everyday decision making easier and swifter.
People have traditionally turned to ritual to help them frame and acknowledge and ultimately even find joy in just such a paradox of being human - in the fact that so much of what we desire for our ha...
PAY MORE, EAT LESS.
Normal waking consciousness feels perfectly transparent, and yet it is less a window on reality than the product of our imaginations-a kind of controlled hallucination.
Most recently, as the medical value of marijuana has been rediscovered, medicine has been searching for ways to pharmaceuticalize the plant—find a way to harness its easily accessible benefits in a pa...
If you’re concerned about your health, you should probably avoid products that make health claims. Why? Because a health claim on a food product is a strong indication it’s not really food, and food i...
I realized that the answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated question of what we should eat wasn't so complicated after all, and in fact could be boiled down to just seven words: Eat food. Not...
For me, spiritual is a good name for some of the powerful mental phenomena that arise when the voice of the ego is muted or silenced. If nothing else, these journeys have shown me how that psychic con...
Eating's not a bad way to get to know a place.
EAT MOSTLY PLANTS, ESPECIALLY LEAVES.