Act like a VIP and become a VIP
Prajna is insight into the world. And a lot of that insight has to do with karma and the way karma affects our lives.
The truth is that an intellectual life is available to almost anyone, almost anywhere, if they work hard enough and are given some kind of access point.
I've spent my entire adult life teaching at colleges of various kinds, all of them very different from Yale, and I have a fairly cynical perspective on what elite institutions - and the privileges they embody - represent in America.
Yale's endowment became a metaphor for the kind of training it offered its graduates, namely, how to exploit the global marketplace, and technology, for your own interests, while maintaining a smokescreen of virtuous intent.
There's an enormous difference between normative white masculinity and normative black masculinity.
Because of all the cosmetic services like skin whitening and hair bleaching, there is a lot that people can do to change their appearance without having actual surgery. It's quite common in Thailand and Korea and Japan.
She’ll have no lover, for I don’t want her and she’ll see no other.
It is given to us to live for the most part under the guidance of mathematics. . . It is impossible to distinguish from other living creatures anyone who does not understand how to quantify.
It was disconcerting that being in love felt lonelier than lonelines.
I'm a little vague on the details but aren't doughnuts just the most marvellous thing to ever come out of organised religion?