Tag: Measure

• May 2, 2013

  Spiritual Exercise – 4. Measure

  Measured speech is neither pithy (witticism) nor voluminous (garrulity). Measured speech is the expression of, or accompaniment to, the virtue of temperance. Let us transform ourselves. Ask yourself, Do I tend to blurt things out? Why is that? Why can’t I seem to hold my tongue? I think I have to ‘say my piece,’ but do…
• November 1, 2011

  The hardness and the softness of philosophical practice

  “Whitman’s central image, the leaves of grass, a form of life that perishes but rises again and again out of its own decay” (231). –Lewis Hyde, The Gift “Anything I have I bestow.” –Walt Whitman, Song of Myself There is a hardness as well as a softness to the philosophical life. Like leaves of grass,…