Category: meditation

• March 27, 2014

  Philosophical Portraiture: ‘The Inner Citadel’

    Two faces of the ‘Inner Citadel,’ a philosophical portrait drawn in charcoal by Aleksandra Marcella Lauro. (The reference is to Pierre Hadot’s book on Marcus Aurelius.)
• March 26, 2014

  Concordance: The world’s beauty and beauty of soul

  There is a concordance between the world’s beauty and the beauty of one’s soul. Beauty makes itself available. Only, the soul must be ready. The ready soul is a beautiful soul. Beauty of soul is not easy to achieve. Yet once achieved, concordance is achieved.
• March 24, 2014

  Writing Blog Tour: My Life as a Philosopher

  The Writing Blog Tour consists of two parts: answering four questions having to do with the process of writing and introducing some friends who, in turn, will do the same the following week. So far as I can tell, this collective project began sometime last summer and has since continued apace. In some respects, the idea resembles an…
• March 22, 2014

  ‘The way is available yet inaccessible’

  The way is available yet inaccessible. Disclosing ever to the attuned; inaudible otherwise. ‘The five tones deafen the ears.’ Listing unlistening. Attuned, one hears for the first time. Not tone deaf, without excited tongue: subtle feeling for sound. According oneself. So comes the way.
• March 21, 2014

  Kissing a ‘thing which is human’

  1 At bedtime, I lie on my side, facing her. Her hand is so warm, rough from climbing. 2 After I go to the bathroom in the middle of the night, I lie back down and listen. There: her breath. 3 Epicetus says, ‘If you kiss your wife, say you only kiss a thing which is human.…