Philosophy isn't a noun to be grasped but a verb to be lived. It's not about having wisdom but about wisdom-ing - the ongoing, embodied practice of questioning, sensing, responding, and adapting to the world as it unfolds.
Jessica Böhmesubstack.comJessica Böhme, PhD (@jessicaboehme)
Philosophy begins in wonder, and the art of it is to keep this wonder with you. Many questions are worth asking, re-asking, revisiting, rethinking. One must seek Knowledge, but be a little wary of finding it. Perhaps excessive, but one could say the idea of possessing knowledge represents a kind of complacency. This is what Socrates meant: Once you... See more
Simon Sarris • Long Distance Thinking
The contemporary phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty characterized his thinking as a philosophy of the lived body or the body subject. Key to his analysis was the notion of embodiment, which draws a distinction from the objective body, which is regarded solely as a physiological entity, and the phenomenal body, which is not just any body, or
... See moreRichard Strozzi-Heckler • The Art of Somatic Coaching: Embodying Skillful Action, Wisdom, and Compassion
Aurelius believed that philosophy wasn’t merely something to think about, but that it should also be practiced.