Category Archives: Essays

Get Real: What is ‘Reality,’ Really?

Posted on February 24, 2010 by Ron Pavellas

This is a question often discussed among people, especially during their formative years and during some parts of their formal education—or over a libation at one’s favorite watering hole. Great thinkers have propounded their ideas on this subject, some of … Continue reading →

Posted in Essays | Tagged Albert Einstein, Arthur Eddington, Compact Oxford English Dictionary of Current English, Gary Novak, Groucho Marx, Henry Miller, Nine-Headed Dragon River; Zen Journals, Peter Matthiessen, reality, Soen-Roshi | 3 Comments

On Anger

Posted on June 3, 2009 by Ron Pavellas

While reading The Storyteller, by Mario Vargas Llosa, I came across this passage which, for reasons still obscure, affected me deeply: “Anger is a disorder of the world, it seems. If men didn’t get angry, life would be better than … Continue reading →

Posted in Essays | Tagged Aquinas Ethicus, Donald Spoto, Geoffrey Chaucer, Mario Vargas Llosa, Moral Teaching of St. Thomas Aquinas, Reluctant Saint, Seneca, The Life of Francis of Assisi, The Storyteller, The Summoner's Tale | 8 Comments

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