Eudaimonia & Wellbeing
growth feels uncomfortable because you've outgrown the old ways of being within yourself, and the new ways of being still aren't familiar so they feel unsafe. at the same time, there are parts of your old self that you miss, but also fear of a new chapter because you've never done it before.
i know that once this period of distress is over, good
... See more“Love, but be careful what you love,” the Roman African philosopher Saint Augustine wrote in the final years of the fourth century. We are, in some deep sense, what we love — we become it as much as it becomes us, beckoned from our myriad conscious and unconscious longings, despairs, and patterned desires. And yet there is something profoundly... See more
Maria Popova • Hannah Arendt on Love and How to Live with the Fundamental Fear of Loss
slow down
open.substack.com
Here//&Now
here-and-now.glitch.me
![Thumbnail of [non-paywalled issue] The Rabbit Hole 🕳🐇 issue no.34](https://d1l054mla94ehg.cloudfront.net/media/images/thumbnails/curation/1e7fac91/thumbnail.webp?height=300&dpr=2)
Yes, philosophy is a serious, rigorous academic discipline, with a lot of people reading Wittgenstein in the original German and pontificating away in a paywalled journal article. But it’s also, I think, a discipline that is meant to resonate with our ordinary lives, our real lives outside the ivory tower. In our real lives, we’re falling in love... See more
how to change your life, part 2: agnes callard's aspiration
Practice and Virtue
thepathosofthings.com