Who stands firm? Only the one for whom the final standard is not his reason, his principles, his conscience, his freedom, his virtue, but who is ready to sacrifice all these, when in faith and sole allegiance to God he is called to obedient and responsible action: the responsible person, whose life will be nothing but an answer toContinueContinue reading “Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Faith and Critical Thinking”
Author Archives: Robert Norris
Inescapable Journeys: On Integrating the Dual and the Non-Dual
Many in Europe who still remember the experience of living under totalitarian regimes, but also the rest of us who have had the good fortune to experience nothing but post-WWII and post-Cold War peace, security and prosperity, may well wonder at the collapse of the events industry, the closure of arts venues and the BalkanisationContinueContinue reading “Inescapable Journeys: On Integrating the Dual and the Non-Dual”
Hope and Delusion: critical storytelling for difficult times
Pari Center, 16 May 2021 Talk on the nature of hope and its place in the human experience. References to Viktor Frankl, Gabriel Marcel, Albert Camus, Emily Dickinson, Pema Chödrön and Thanissaro Bikkhu. Talk was delivered via Zoom to an audience of around forty people. Below a PDF with the talk notes and a bibliography.ContinueContinue reading “Hope and Delusion: critical storytelling for difficult times”
Six Conditions of Hope: a talk by David Gee (9 Apr 2020)
A tentative definition of hope as a feeling for what is worth living for (discernment) and the determination to live it (committed choice), as distinct from optimism, which is defined as an uncritical faith in the future
Riverside Elegy: a Laotian Retrospective
But change, as we know, occurs even when there is no hope left.
Record of Hope 