On the cover of the latest issue of Parabola, “Science and Spirit,” there is a beautiful angel, gazing down at the world with grave compassion. While the publisher says the angel is a he, I am more than certain this particular angel is a she. She looks so much like the apparition I describe in […]
There is a Zen koan that poses this tricky situation: You are at the top of a 100-foot pole. How will you take a step further? The earliest Buddhist teachings don’t offer koans. But it turns out that the Eightfold Path, the ancient way the Buddha offered to end suffering, does include a leap. It […]
As we prepare for the birth of a new issue, I share one of my favorite quotes from The Unknown: “Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries,” Theodore Roethke. The spiritual path leads to vulnerability, to opening to mystery. It is not clinging for dear life to a set of propositions […]
