Resetting Your Standards as a Man
What are our own cultural traditions around personal or spiritual growth? Can we reclaim them if we’ve lost contact with our heritage, our origins?
William A. Richards • Beyond the Narrow Life
“I know that it gives one great inner force, calmness, and happiness to communicate with such great thinkers as Socrates, Epictetus, Arnold, Parker…. They tell us about what is most important for humanity, about the meaning of life and about virtue…. I would like to create a book … in which I could tell a person about his life, and about the Good W
... See moreLeo Tolstoy • A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se
My preference is for inspirational literature, though such a choice is a personal one. But for the interested, here are some to consider:
Zen, the Reason of Unreason; The Wisdom of Confucius; the Torah; the Holy Bible; Tao, to Know and Not Be Knowing; The Meaning of the Glorious Koran: An Explanatory Translation; As a Man Thinketh; The Essential Gan
... See moreRole #6: Wise Man We live in a culture of fools. Men need to learn to become wise.
David Kinnaman • The Intentional Father
These values, according to Kreeft, are wisdom, self-control, courage, and justice. More than ever, we need to raise young men who have these values deep in their hearts. Imagine your son standing tall as a man with a life defined by wisdom, self-control, courage, and justice.