I came across a “prayer against storms” the other day — not from medieval or scriptural time but one composed very recently by a well-meaning common person. It was an inadvertent admission of very unfortunate sentiments.
No one welcomes personal or property damage from a storm, of course, but we must nevertheless recognize that someone will [...]

Depak Chopra has written that “reality is formed by consciousness.” This is not eighteenth-century Bishop Berkeley’s idealism, but states a deceptively simple truth: we make reality through our perceptions, values, goals, and will.
Consciousness refers to the deepest part of our being. Reality is the insight elicited when consciousness comes into contact with events around us, [...]