Category: Wisdom Traditions

An Emerging New World Ethic

Hans Küng Global Responsibility: In Search of a New World Ethic Crossroad, 1991 There can be no ongoing human society without a world ethic for the nations. There can be no peace among the nations…

Leaving No Room

The Wisdom of the Arabs Compiled by Sheila Bushrui Oneworld Publications, 2002 Here lately, friends and I have been reading and discussing the wisdom of the Stoics as well as St. Francis and His Companions….

Share the Wealth: Francis of Assisi

[T]oday it is not nearly enough to be a saint, but we must have the saintliness demanded by the present moment, a new saintliness, itself also without precedent.  —Simone Weil #1 A Prayer Lord, make…

The Mutation of Vision

Pierre Hadot, What is Ancient Philosophy? Translated by Michael Chase My friend Pat and I have been reading and discussing via Zoom works by French philosopher Pierre Hadot since this past summer.  Having previously read…

History from a New Perspective

Dorothee Soelle, Against the Wind: Memoir of a Radical Christian A series of short 3-6 page chapters proceeding chronologically from growing up in Germany, through the war years, to her education, her intellectual influences, especially, existentialism;…

Seeing and Being Seen

Suddenly I realized that [Maharaji]  knew everything that was going on in my head, all the time, and that he still loved me. Because who we are is behind all that. —Ram Dass   [Sri…

With Unswerving Steadfastness

Swami Prabhavananda, The Eternal Companion: Brahmananda—His Life and Teachings   A while back, through reading the spiritual works of Christopher Isherwood, I became acquainted with his guru, Swami Prabhavananda, who was a devotee of Brahmananda,…

Radiant Bliss

1. Recently ten of us became acquainted with Japanese-American Mayumi Oda in the Writing Our Own History class.  Here autobiography had just been published, Sarasvati’s Gift. As an artist Oda had a breakthrough when she…