Search Results for "Martha Beck"

Apr 6, 2019AOC Stories

Whenever I hear a flight attendant say, “Remember, your nearest exit may be behind you,” I think, “As above, in air travel, so below in ordinary life.” Most of the time we focus only on what we already believe. Fixated on these ideas, we don’t notice anything that could spark ne...

Sep 8, 2018AOC Stories

There’s an odd theme in ancient Asian art: a jolly man playing the flute while riding on an ox, backwards. Obviously (not), this is a metaphor for true wisdom. In Taoism, the ox represents the vast, powerful flow of energy that runs through all of nature, including us humans (think �...