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Poetry for People
Who Don't Read Poetry. Spirituality for Me
and Maybe You.
Chris Spark
"[Spark] definitely has something going here: the quick take, unexpected turn-arounds, lots of playfulness... delightful in many instances." —Billy Collins, former US Poet Laureate
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Chris Spark
Aug 129 min read
Spirituality 8 - How to Ride a Wolf
The wolf isn’t attracted by hard work or struggle or careful planning.
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Chris Spark
Aug 125 min read
Spirituality 8 - The Firebird
Spirituality, like existentialism and atheism, faces naked reality. The difference is that spirituality faces more of reality.
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Chris Spark
Aug 125 min read
Spirituality 7 - The Adventure of You
Western culture emphasizes individualism more than most other cultures. But it's still a watered-down version. Call it Individuality Lite.
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Chris Spark
Aug 124 min read
Spirituality 6 - The Void
Most people don’t consciously register they are doing this difficult work of sorting through swarms of often clashing ideas.
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Chris Spark
Aug 46 min read
Spirituality 5 - Meditation: Leaving Your Room
We can even allow the thought that we’re failing miserably at meditation.
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Chris Spark
Jul 274 min read
Spirituality 4: Thoughts - The Little Room We (Almost) Never Leave
In a nutshell, we live in a nutshell.
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Chris Spark
Jul 274 min read
Spirituality 3: Detachment
To speak about the greatest possible reality, logic itself tells us that we have to sometimes speak nonlogically.
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Chris Spark
Jul 255 min read
Spirituality 2: Denial
You can’t fight something and see it clearly at the same time.
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Chris Spark
Jul 242 min read
Spirituality 1: What Is Spirituality?
True spirituality manifests itself powerfully in our tie-our-shoelaces, wipe-our-noses, everyday reality. Otherwise, why should we care?
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Chris Spark
Apr 76 min read
You Don't Have to Explain Yourself: Language, Logic, & Ultimate Truth
No Western philosopher was a painter.
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Chris Spark
Mar 72 min read
Alone - A Life-Giving Definition
We are each the sole monarch of a kingdom...
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Chris Spark
Feb 203 min read
On Being an Artist: A Response to Nick Cave
Someone recently emailed me a post by the musician/songwriter Nick Cave, and I felt compelled to write a response.
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Chris Spark
Feb 51 min read
Be Unreasonable
We find the essence of who we are in the activities we do for no reason.
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Chris Spark
Jan 192 min read
Tired of Western Intellectuals Discussing Deep Matters
Western intellectual culture is not really interested in peace, happiness, or fulfillment.
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Chris Spark
Dec 5, 20231 min read
The Ends of the Loaf
I love that what to me is a small unappealing object is a huge glorious feast for the birds around me.
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Chris Spark
Nov 27, 20233 min read
This Post Is Not for You
Or "How to Solve All the World's Problems"
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Chris Spark
Aug 10, 20231 min read
Reality - A Life-Giving Definition
I'm making a little book called Just So Many Words: A Dictionary of Life-Giving Definitions. The premise is that no definition can...
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Chris Spark
Aug 7, 20232 min read
Divisions - A Life-Giving Definition
There isn’t a single boundary that we couldn’t change or that doesn’t disappear on closer examination.
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Chris Spark
Aug 1, 20233 min read
Happiness - A Life-Giving Definition
We need to know happiness intimately before we are qualified to help others find it.
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Chris Spark
Jul 30, 20232 min read
Stop Living in Denial & Turn off the News
If there's such thing as a scientifically valid sampling of significant things that happened in the world today, "the news" is not it.
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