Reads tagged with “philosophy”
Anam Cara and the Essence of True Friendship: Poet and Philosopher John O’Donohue on the Beautiful Ancient Celtic Notion of Soul-Friend
“A friend… awakens your life in order to free the wild possibilities within you.”
The Six Pillars of the Wholehearted Life: Parker Palmer’s Spectacular Naropa University Commencement Address
“Take everything that’s bright and beautiful in you and introduce it to the shadow side of yourself… When you are able to say, ‘I am … my shadow as well as my light,’ the shadow’s power is put in service of the good.”
Simone Weil on True Genius and the Crushing Illusion of Inferiority
“When one hungers for bread one does not receive stones.”
A Zen Master Explains Life and Death to a Child and Outlines the Three Essential Principles of Zen Mind
“Zen practice … requires great faith, great courage, and great questioning.”
Toni Morrison on How to Be Your Own Story and Reap the Rewards of Adulthood in a Culture That Fetishizes Youth
“True adulthood… is a difficult beauty, an intensely hard won glory, which commercial forces and cultural vapidity should not be permitted to deprive you of.”
Leisure, the Basis of Culture: An Obscure German Philosopher’s Timely 1948 Manifesto for Reclaiming Our Human Dignity in a Culture of Workaholism
“Leisure lives on affirmation. It is not the same as the absence of activity … or even as an inner quiet. It is rather like the stillness in the conversation of lovers, which is fed by their oneness.”
Diane Ackerman on the Secret Life of the Senses and the Measure of Our Aliveness
“The great affair, the love affair with life, is to live as variously as possible, to groom one’s curiosity like a high-spirited thoroughbred, climb aboard, and gallop…”
Art as a Form of Active Prayer and What Writers Really Labor For
“Immerse yourself in the common ground of the universe so that your true voice — not the egoistic voice that clamors vainly for power (for it will ruin you if you listen to it) — your authentic voice … may be heard.”
The Divine Within: Aldous Huxley on Mind-Body Integration and How We Become Who We Are
“In all the activities of life, from the simplest physical activities to the highest intellectual and spiritual activities, our whole effort must be to get out of our own light.”
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