On a citrus fruit, the zest is the outer covering that adds flavor. In life, zest refers to a sense of opening to possibilities – taking advantage of what life has to offer. What I'm proposing, to ... Read More about Zest, the Spice of Life: Opening to Horizons
We are free when we have the right and the liberty to choose for ourselves. Freedom is among the most highly prized of our values. I do not believe we can have any freedom at all in the ... Read More about Freedom
When we are not free, we may seek to liberate ourselves, so that we may choose our own course of action as autonomous beings. When none could eat any more, the Ivinses’ daughters asked William and ... Read More about Liberating
Choices are made real through action. Ethics, morality, religion, spirituality and all our laws and decisions are products of choice. We may indeed in counsel point to the higher road, but we ... Read More about Choosing
Our human capacity to plan makes much of the good in our lives and our societies possible. Planning can be for good or for ill. It is a component of autonomy in the domain of thinking. Because we are ... Read More about Planning
We are not as free to choose as people once thought. Science has brought old ideas of free will into question. However, we live as though we have free will. Ethics, morality and spirituality depend on ... Read More about Will
We experience the self, as an entity capable of making choices. Though our paths and our fortunes may be linked, each of us experiences life as an autonomous individual. Fantasy though it may be, it ... Read More about Autonomy