When Nietzsche Wept (1992)
When Josef Breuer agrees to help Friedrich Nietzsche work through his despair, he finds himself getting healed too. FN: “I can’t cure despair…I study it. Despair is the price one […]
When Josef Breuer agrees to help Friedrich Nietzsche work through his despair, he finds himself getting healed too. FN: “I can’t cure despair…I study it. Despair is the price one […]
Reading Donna Hicks’ Dignity, I continue to be struck by the foundational-level-ness of dignity: “Our emotional radar is set very low for indignities. The second we sense that someone is […]
Carlo Carretto’s Why O Lord addresses the problem of suffering. He begins by telling the story of his own unfair injury that changed his life. He’d dreamed of being a […]
‘Neither of us will even know whether the other is alive or dead. We shall be utterly without power of any kind. The one thing that matters is that we […]
Finished Encyclopedia Blazertannica and was left feeling grateful for the fine work of Michael Davies and Roger Bennett. There was wit and insight and backstory and product placement. Everything suboptimally […]
In Comfortable with Uncertainty, Pema Chödrön introduces several practices for becoming an awakened warrior-bodhisattva—”warrior” from the Shambhala tradition and “bodhisattva” from the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. I found her discussion of […]
2 Chairs is about making time for God each morning, recommending setting up two chairs in one’s home and sitting with God. When dealing with one’s problems, the book asks […]