It feels good to turn your face to the sun. The sound of rain on windows is one of the best sounds there is. A cat sleeping on you — choosing you, trusting you — is more of an honour than a lot of things people spend whole careers chasing. These are small things. True things. The kind of knowing that lives in the body, below opinion and above doubt.

This week's One Question is an invitation to push through the noise — the uncertainty, the overwhelm, the fire-hose of the world right now — and find the things you still know to be true. Not the grand philosophical ones necessarily, but the small, sensory, undeniable ones. The ones that hold in grief and in celebration, in confusion and in clarity.

Drawing on philosopher Michael Polanyi's concept of tacit knowledge, Eugene Gendlin's somatic research on felt sense, and Antonio Damasio's ne ...