buy discount Seroquel on line So much to do, most of it the necessary sort. Children, house, declining body. I think of the way Jung describes the middle of his career: With my work at Burgholzi life took on an undivided reality – all intention, consciousness, duty, and responsibility. It was an entry into the monastery of the world, a […]
Category Archives: The Inner Life.
Middle Age.
09-May-20So Mighty a Palace, And So Empty
06-May-20An Nuhūd Abu Yazid was asked, “How did you attain to this degree and achieve this station?” “One night when I was a child,” he answered, “I came out from Bestam. The moon was shining, and the world was at rest. I beheld a Presence, besides which eighteen thousand worlds seemed but a mote. A deep emotion […]
Centuries of Meditations
26-Feb-20How is it that no one ever told me about Thomas Traherne before? Do not wonder that I promise to fill it [this book] with those Truths you love but know not; for though it be a maxim in the schools that there is no Love of a thing unknown yet I have found that […]
Soul/Self/Meaning.
09-Oct-15This probably says a bit too much too quickly for those who don’t speak this language, but the following set of paragraphs impressed me as deeply true: In his book, Myths, Gods, Heroes, and Saviors, Leonard Baillas writes, “The supreme achievement of the self is to find an insight that connects together the events, dreams, […]
Cheryl Strayed’s Initiation.
30-Jan-15I think it is entirely to Cheryl Strayed’s credit as a writer and as a human being that she can write a book which one reviewer – admittedly, not a very observant one – can reduce to the question “What do you have to say now, God?” while I find it religious in outlook and […]
The Pope has weighed in on the Charlie Hebdo killings, and he falls into the “Well, I don’t like murder normally, but…” camp: The Holy Father spoke to journalists in a broad interview on the papal flight to the Philippines about the Charlie Hebdo massacre and the controversy about the magazine’s new cover this week. […]
On the Feast of Stephen.
27-Dec-14My bike trip this past spring brought me through Nauvoo, Illinois, a Mormon town. It is a tourist town, and a pleasant place, with the prosperity and wholesomeness once thought proper to all rural America but now almost the exclusive property of the Mormons. The lawns are crisply mowed, families walk blithely down the streets […]
On Anger.
08-Aug-14A friend who is going through some difficulties told me that she was outside her house recently, sitting in her car, and she realized she had been angry for a long time: and all of a sudden that she was not angry anymore: it was all dissolving, and it was just turning to sadness – […]
Talk at NYU.
17-Nov-13I’ll be speaking this Wednesday, November 20th at NYU on the topic Religion, Spirituality, and Healing. I was on a similar panel last year and the students liked what I had to say, so now I’m one of the presenters. 9:30 a.m. to noon or thereabouts. Silver Hall, 31 Washington Place, room 414.
Consequences
28-Feb-20“Order says there is no wrong or right. You just reap what you sow.”