Living with Contradiction (1997)
In Living with Contradiction, Ester de Waal writes about the contradictions inherent to the spiritual life through the lens of St Benedict’s Rule: solitude and community, giftedness and grace, desert […]
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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 […]
Dignity (2011)
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 […]
Why O Lord (1987)
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 […]
1984 (1949)
‘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 […]
Encyclopedia Blazertannica (2018) #GFOP
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 […]
Comfortable with Uncertainty (2003)
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 […]
