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We men are fascinated by the things we don't really understand. It gives us something to think and talk about: like females, they drive us nuts.

Killosophy

We have better relationships with those who truly seek us rather than those sitting on the couch watching us move mountains trying to prove ourselves.

Killosophy

Love tames the benumbed beast. A man is put to use regarding a woman's physical safety, but a woman is put to use regarding a man's mental safety.

Killosophy

Reading can break us out of the tunnel vision of the narrow specialty and lead us into many intriguing and important avenues of thought.

Reading Between the Lines

Suffering reminds us of our brokenness, our humanity. It disarms us of our self-absorption and magnifies our need for one another.

Radically Ordinary

In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.

Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion

The most boring and unproductive question one can ask of any religion is whether or not it is true.

Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion

You used to be the best to make life be real to me, and I hope that you're still out there and you're like you used to be

Reconsider Me: The Love Songs

Truth and effort may increase human worth But they are not enough to make us whole; Only love can complete us.

Songs of Enlightenment

God creates us free, free to be selfish, but He adds a mechanism that will penetrate our selfishness and wake us up to the presence of others in this world, and that mechanism is called suffering.

Shadowlands

Sometimes … I think parents work so hard to keep us from making their mistakes, they won’t allow us to make our own.

A Song for Julia

There are some things in life that just are. They are meant to be, and to fight against them is to ensure your own loss.

Somebody I Used to Know

Simplification establishes an unspoken emphasis on relationship.

Simplicity Parenting: Using the Extraordinary Power of Less to Raise Calmer, Happier, and More Secure Kids

the happiest among us will be most altruistic, most distinct, most benevolent and most awkward to some of us in a way.

A Short Affair Called Life

Pain is as expansive as life itself. Pain grows with us and in us as a cultivation of life's unfolding.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Let us give Nature a chance; she knows her business better than we do.

Montaigne: Essays

It is the story that matters not just the ending.

A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form

Mathematics is the art of explanation.

A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form

Maybe we all have darkness inside of us and some of us are better at dealing with it than others.

My Heart and Other Black Holes

We wanted a family so bad, all of us. And we just grabbed each another and made us one. Simple as that.

Missing May

Even a nonbeliever might find it useful to model himself after God. Very useful, in fact.

No Country for Old Men