using my own tailored versions of prayers felt increasingly artificial and stupid – like correcting someone’s grammar when they’re making a passionate declaration of love. There are times when being correct is not being right.
24.10.2025 16:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"the left brain is stubbornly clinging to power, like an elderly blowhard senator, well into his dotage, who absolutely will not yield the floor. Embarrassing for all concerned, and no good to man or beast, but by God it's got motor control and it intends to keep it."
02.10.2025 16:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"To be clear -- or maybe to be obscure -- I do not hold the value of these novels to be absolute, which I would consider philosophical nonsense. They are not (importantly) things, they are invitations to spiritual dances..."
01.10.2025 16:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The prayers that currently frame my meditation practice
11.09.2025 16:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We’re in an age like the age of St Augustine, a maelstrom of competing faiths, and an upwelling of heresies. Whether we like it or not, we're pitched into creating the patristics of the future. What can we do but lean into it?
09.09.2025 15:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I can be so stupid,
am so stupid, most of the time;
but September comes anyway.
02.09.2025 16:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
If only some tragic accident had destroyed the final hundred pages of Copperfield, we could lament its loss, speculate that it was probably the best novel ever written in English, and say, “Oh, if only we had the end of it!”
26.08.2025 16:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
You don’t want your favorite book to end, sure, in a way. But still, you want to read the ending. You want to have the whole thing. You want to know how the story turns out, if there’s one last twist.
18.08.2025 16:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
[Sacred joy] is to me one of the most obvious, important, and persistent facts of the universe, and a metaphysics that doesn’t account for it fails as miserably as a physics that can’t account for the sun rising.
09.08.2025 16:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“well, if you’re not a Buddhist, then what the hell are you?”
07.08.2025 16:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
You meet a blog as you meet a cat on the sidewalk far from home: it doesn’t expect you to feed it, and you don’t expect it to let you pick it up, but that doesn’t mean you can’t have a bit of a love-fest
06.08.2025 16:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"Time is our home," says McGilchrist. If we try to live outside it we will only come to grief.
12.07.2025 17:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
None of this is to say that our current lurch into tyranny is not a political calamity. It is. But if you feel it as a spiritual calamity -- if it empties the meaning out of life -- then you were giving history a responsibility for salvation that it can't bear.
05.07.2025 16:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Progress means that people are good and will be rewarded: apocalypse means that people are bad and will be punished. What we are having great difficulty with is the idea that history is just what happens when people bump into each other (as they do constantly, in a crowded world.)
05.07.2025 15:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Yeah, I'm over a week behind real time, at the moment. Catching up. But you never really catch up to real time, I guess.
04.07.2025 15:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Huh. I can't think of a term for it. Tolkien does it all the time. Eliot is apparently embarrassed about it, and often wants you to assume that she's quoting some anonymous Elizabethan play; but Tolkien knows no shame.
30.06.2025 16:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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