Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
a dead man without any of the panoply of death is a desperately insignificant object.
Robertson Davies • Fifth Business (Deptford Trilogy)
Eventually, you are simply absent from yourself.
Andrew Solomon • The Noonday Demon
“Death lies heavy upon one who, known exceedingly well by all, dies unknown to himself.” —SENECA, THYESTES, 400
Ryan Holiday • The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living: Featuring new translations of Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius
Books became my closest confidants, finely ground lenses providing new views of the world.
Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
how “in the midst of life we are in death.”
Sonu Shamdasani • Lament of the Dead
After: A Doctor Explores What Near-Death Experiences Reveal About Life and Beyond
amazon.com
Shining Light on Transcendence: The unconventional journey of a Neuroscientist
amazon.com
THOMAS BRUNNER (2000) RECENTLY COMPARED MY work with that of Thomas Moore and characterized it as follows: “While Thomas Moore's books may be sifted down into the maxim, ‘the sacred is closer than you think,’ Robert Moore's books exhibit the central idea that ‘the demonic is closer than you think.’”