He gripped the pen like a marlinspike.
– said of Jack London
The Discover What Matters™ blog by Charles Carlson fuses several traditions: Zen teachings, nature writing and cultural criticism—all of which place a heavy emphasis on truth, a no-nonsense sensibility and a love of language. Like any good voyage of discovery the blog covers a wide range of subjects affecting modern life: spirituality, ethics, family, work, relationships, language and more.
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The Five Stages of Grief have become an almost sacred tenet of modern psychiatry. The Five Stages have helped people deal with the death of a loved one, their own death, and have led to more compassionate treatment of the terminally ill. But what if the Five Stages are incomplete? What if there is a sixth (and even seventh) stage that modern psychiatry has missed? If you're on a mobile device, click on the photo above to learn more.
"Spirituality" has become a popular buzzword in our modern lexicon, as more and more people describe themselves as spiritual, but not religious. In a survey by LifeWay Christian Resources in 2010 of 1,200 18- to 29-year-olds, 72% said they're "really more spiritual than religious." It used to be that if you weren't religious, then you were an atheist, or maybe an agnostic, but a new category—spirituality—has given people a third, very viable and interesting option. So what does it mean to be spiritual?
On the occasion of Valentine's Day, I thought I'd share one of the most popular chapters from my book, Passage to Nirvana. It's a short chapter; doesn't take more than a minute to read. It's almost more of a prose poem. The chapter is about both the word and the reality, and is titled simply, “Love.”
