(audio available for paid members) This is much; yet Ahab’s larger, darker, deeper part remains unhinted. Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
(audio available for paid members) Ah, God! what trances of torments does that man endure who is consumed with one unachieved revengeful desire. He sleeps with clenched hands;…
(audio available for paid members) He must dare to leap into the Origin, so as to live by the Truth and in the Truth, like one who has…
(audio available for paid members) There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for…
In the world of things as they are, there is no self, no non-self.
(audio available for paid members) He knows himself, and all that’s in him, who knows adversity. To scale great heights, we must come out of lowermost depths. The…
(audio available for paid members) “The person is a very small thing. Actually it is a composite, it cannot be said to exist by itself. Unperceived, it is…
I’ll sing this song the rest of my life until I drop dead; whether anybody listens to it or not is of no importance to me. U.G. Krishnamurti The…
(audio available for paid members) “Until I was twenty-five, I had no development at all. From my twenty-fifth year I date my life. Three weeks have scarcely passed,…
“In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world.” Henry David Thoreau Selections from the writings of…
(audio available for paid members) From beneath his slouched hat Ahab dropped a tear into the sea; nor did all the Pacific contain such wealth as that one…
(audio available for paid members) The port would fain give succor; the port is pitiful; in the port is safety, comfort, hearthstone, supper, warm blankets, friends, all that’s…
(audio available for paid members) “So there is no earthly way of finding out precisely what the whale really looks like. And the only mode in which you…
(audio available for paid members) Only themselves understand themselves, and the like of themselves, As Souls only understand Souls. Walt Whitman
(audio available for paid members) “How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?” Arthur…
Q: Spiritually Incorrect Enlightenment starts out strangely. First, with the Call me Ahab line in the first chapter, then the next two chapters which are a little unsettling, almost…
(audio available for paid members) This is adapted from a letter Jed McKenna wrote in reply to a self-professed “serious seeker” who made an impassioned offer to turn…
I was asking for something specific and perfect for my city, Whereupon, lo! upsprang the aboriginal name! Walt Whitman, Mannahatta I LIKE MANHATTAN TOO MUCH to ever live…
Essays, Teachings, Rants & Frivolous Frivolity Jed McKenna (audio available for paid subscribers) includes Starship Gita: The Song of the Borg A play in six acts. “No problem…
(audio available for paid subscribers) “How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?” Satchel Paige Jed and Douglas sit facing each other. Douglas,…
(audio available for paid subscribers) “It is high time that we realized that it is pointless to praise the light and preach it if nobody can see it.…
(audio available for paid subscribers) “Where do we start? It doesn’t matter where we start. You start where you are is all. Where else, right? Sure, where…
(audio available for paid subscribers) “What happens to you here is for ever. Understand that in advance. We shall crush you down to the point from which there…
(audio available for paid subscribers) “Waking up is unpleasant, you know. You are nice and comfortable in bed. It is irritating to be woken up. That’s the reason…
(audio available for paid subscribers) “Unless it comes out of your soul like a rocket, unless being still would drive you to madness or suicide or murder, don’t…
(audio available for paid subscribers) “I just want to be easy about this and have a nice time. If we get to the part where it’s not…
(audio available for paid subscribers) “He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying…
(audio available for paid subscribers) “Well, I’ve wrestled with reality for 35 years, Doctor, and I’m happy to state I finally won out over it.” Elwood P. Dowd…
(audio available for paid subscribers) “It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.” Mark Twain In the realm of amusing ideas, there…
(audio available for paid subscribers) “Ego is not who you are, it’s just how you are.” Marichelle Whatever you really are, you are really not your body, so…
(audio available for paid subscribers) “We would rather be ruined than changed, We would rather die in dread Than climb the cross of the moment And let our…
(audio available for paid subscribers) Fall seven times, stand up eight.” Zen saying One fine morning, long ago in days of yore, before cell phones and internet, a…
(audio available for paid subscribers) The Bridge On the bridge of the Starship Enterprise. Jean-Luc Picard sits in his captain’s chair with Commander Will Riker to his right…