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But it would allow me a chance to find answers that are not in books, to find a different sort of sublime, to forge relationships with the suffering, and to keep following the question of what makes human life meaningful, even in the face of death and decay.
Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
Love and generous perception are mutually reinforcing. Adopting a posture of love toward others leads us to see them positively;
Shai Held • Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life
Gabriel Marcel, a Christian among the existentialists, appreciated our road-hunger. Marcel described humanity as homo viator, “itinerate man.” But he was staunchly critical of Sartre’s view of freedom. Freedom isn’t digging a tunnel to escape, he counseled; it’s digging down into yourself.
James K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
Practice and Virtue
Answer to Atheistic Moral Platonism
William Lane Craig • On Guard

A popular book that makes similar points is the best-selling When Breath Becomes Air, the reflections of a young neurosurgeon, now deceased, who wrote about a journey back toward faith when he was dying of cancer.20 Paul Kalanithi had been an “ironclad atheist.” His primary charge against Christianity was “its failure on empirical grounds. Surely
... See moreTimothy Keller • Making Sense of God: Finding God in the Modern World
Not being philosophers, we too might turn to philosophy as a source of perspective, reflection, and guidance; his book is a kind of philosophical diary, intensely personal and idiosyncratic. For Marcus, Stoic philosophy is often held at arm’s length, as it is by many of us.
Brad Inwood • Stoicism: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
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