Category: philosophical counseling
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What Full Enlightenment and Wisdom Are
Proposition 1: Enlightenment is the realization of the most real. Proposition 2: Full, or great, enlightenment is the realization that the most real is the highest good. Proposition 3: Wisdom is the purest expression of the most real in the form of the highest good. The Essential Point Wisdom is where the rubber hits the…
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Why St. Benedict Was Right
1 Brothers, Divine Scripture calls to us saying: Whoever exalts himself shall be humbled, and whoever humbles himself shall be exalted (Luke 14:11; 18:14). 2 In saying this, therefore, it shows us that every exaltation is a kind of pride, 3 which the Prophet indicates he has shunned, saying: Lord, my heart is not exalted;…
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Peter Pans
Maybe you too have the eerie sense that a fair number of young men are not growing up fully. In this respect, they are Peter Pans. I find it hard to state this thesis clearly. Toward the beginning of my “Secular Monks” piece, I gesture in this direction: Recently, I began to notice that well-educated,…
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Reading The Tao Te Ching: Kenosis; or, Self-emptying
And what is always here? What, indeed, is evident just when the self falls away?
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 