Anna B
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Anna B
It’s political and it’s cultural: At some point in the last few years, a feeling has set in that the future is being foreclosed
Michelle Goldberg • The Darkness Where the Future Should Be
Most significant to those of us interested in the Heroine’s Journey is that for a hero in a Hero’s Journey, a prevailing concept and perpetuated message is that asking for (or needing) help is BAD. Because a hero who asks for help is perceived as weak by the story
Gail Carriger • The Heroine's Journey
Four years after it first appeared, Woolf reprinted “On Being Ill”
Brian Dillon • On a Wonderful, Beautiful, Almost Failed Sentence By Virginia Woolf
If you are meditating in order to grow the wealth of your business then you are approaching the act with, as Buddhist’s would say, wrong intention
Chris Wheatley • When Mindfulness Meets Capitalism, It Loses Its Way
Plato’s truth is identical not only with the beautiful, but with the good and the just.
Crispin Sartwell • Truth Is Real and Philosophers Must Return Their Attention to It
It may well be the sentence that for diverse reasons—because thinking about Woolf, or sickness, or essays, because trying to emulate a certain rhythm in my own writing—I’ve copied out by hand more than any other.
Brian Dillon • On a Wonderful, Beautiful, Almost Failed Sentence By Virginia Woolf
Before the 20th century, reflection on truth in Western intellectual and spiritual traditions usually exalted it. ‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty
Crispin Sartwell • Truth Is Real and Philosophers Must Return Their Attention to It
I took a medium-sized bottle of Jim Beam and drank from it under the covers while reading No Man Is an Island by Thomas Merton. Without God, we are no longer persons. We become dumb animals under pain, happy if we can behave at least like quiet animals and die without too much confusion.
