Photo by Everyday basics on Unsplash The composer and guitarist Frank Zappa once said, “A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open.” Ben Franklin commented, “Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.” And Mark Twain noted, “What you know for sure that just ain't so.” I could go on but you get the point. A willingness to continue to learn throughout a person’s entire life is really important because to do otherwise is to become mire

Photo by Wolfgang Hasselmann on Unsplash Conversations With the Sacred Throughout human history, one common characteristic of every culture is that there are people within the society who seem to have a special connection with the sacred – and, of course, what is called “sacred” is defined in very many different ways by the world’s religions and philosophies. We often call this type of relationship or bond a “mystical connection” and we call the person who can experience it a