Tag: Guide
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Benedict’s abbot as guide
Benedict’s abbot is a discerning man. Different means are to be employed with the undisciplined and the disciplined. The undisciplined monks are to be reprimanded and taught by example, less by words. The disciplined, receptive to words, are to be entreated gently ‘to do better.’ Benedict’s abbot is self-integrated. His words converge with his deeds,…
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‘A radiant life, being good, expresses beauty…’
I am reading The Guidebook to Philosophical Life for the first time. I had written it without reading it through. Even now, I only read and mumble lines and phrases and stray poetic turns. I had written it but hadn’t realized the beauty of lines such as these. I have been reading them aloud this morning.…
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‘I spilled the ink across the page’: Reflections on inquiring about life
Preface I spend a lot of my time trying out novel experiments, watching them unwind, and then puzzling through what I can learn about their reasons for unraveling. (Mine, a life in letters spelling out failures. All spilled ink across the page.) I worked at two start-ups, have run my own businesses, have conjured up…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 