by cutsinger | Sep 26, 2007 | Uncategorized
I can easily understand your desire to re-marry; given your many years in that state, it’s only natural that you would feel lonely now and only natural in turn that you would keenly desire to return to what you knew. At the risk of seeming rather cold and...
by cutsinger | Sep 23, 2007 | Uncategorized
Your reference to Crossett’s poem is most timely. As it happens we just finished J. R. R. Tolkien’s Silmarillion in the “Oxford Inklings” honors seminar I am teaching this term, and during the course of exploring this book we had occasion to...
by cutsinger | Sep 19, 2007 | Uncategorized
What you describe is not uncommon. The spiritual life entails a process of purgation, and it is in the nature of things that the ego, sensing its own eventual death, will react against this. From the ego’s point of view, as a spiritual master once told me,...
by cutsinger | Sep 15, 2007 | Uncategorized
Allow me to add a postscript to “Caught in the Middle” (see September 12). As I suggested but perhaps did not sufficiently emphasize, one of Hadot’s most important points in his book is that the ancient schools were united more by their commitment to...
by cutsinger | Sep 12, 2007 | Uncategorized
I’ve just finished an interesting book and recommend it wholeheartedly: What is Ancient Philosophy? by Pierre Hadot (Harvard University Press, 2002). Just in case there was any doubt on the subject, the author very convincingly demonstrates that for Plato and...
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