Author: Andrew Taggart
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On Not Yet Being Able To Be Alone With Myself In A Room
Alexandra’s New Book: Into Great Freedom: A Novella Not Being Able—Not Yet—To Be Alone With Myself In A Room Why is it that most people the world over don’t meditate at all, let alone on a regular basis? In other words, why would sitting in silence be so terrifying or, in any case, so unattractive…
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From Slurred Speech to Eloquence Training: My New Audiobook
When I was a boy, I garbed my speech, mumbled out words, and occasionally slurred. I never thought I had a speech impediment, nor did I regard myself as having a learning disability. It was rather that I felt slightly ill at ease around others, perhaps presumed a twinge of hostility from my interlocutor, and…
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Catholic, Zen, & Hegelian Views of Work
One conception of work, which I’ll call “Catholic” for lack of a better name, is instrumental. We work in order to experience contemplative leisure. Aristotle began this line of inquiry, and Josef Pieper took it up in Leisure: The Basis of Work. A second I’ve furnished in my book Chop Wood, Carry Water: The Yoga…
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What Is God?
Dear D, When we think of God, we think of certain qualities like benevolence, mercy, wisdom, and justice. We think of all-goodness, all-powerfulness, all-seeingness. All right. But then what happens when we cease thinking of God’s qualities? We might then try to think of God. But can we think of God? Can we, for instance, think of infinity? We cannot. Can…
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NEW BOOK! The Art of Inquiry
Philosophy doesn’t begin in a seminar room. It begins when a question arrives that won’t let you go–when the life you’ve been living suddenly insists on being contemplated. The Art of Inquiry: Meditations on Living Wisdom, I trace the movement from existential confusion to living wisdom — from the moment philosophy arrives uninvited to the…
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