Ideas
Bonhoeffer on Freedom: Meditation #1
Niemand erfährt das Geheimnis der Freiheit, es sei denn durch Zucht. No one experiences the secret of freedom, except through discipline. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer looks like what he is: a German pastor from a comfortable background. Blonde and bespectacled, well-padded, a prosperous and gentle intellectual. He was indeed all those
Know Thyself
What if to examine life means not to examine your own life, your own subjectivity, but rather literally to examine life?
What do you need?
Why are you suffering?
On Bob Dylan
“What music do you like?” “Bob Dylan,” I said. “That’s not a type of music,” she said gently. “That’s a musician.” I first encountered Dylan in the early winter of 1997. I had just gone to England to study. It was half-term and I was staying with my
On Change
Du musst dein Leben ändern, writes Rilke. You must change your life. Well, yes, Rainer. Of course. But how?
On Creativity
The mountain spring has dried up.
Peak Experience
What do we expect peak experience to feel like?
Meaningful Work
Simple needs, human needs - genuine human needs. But what is this word genuine and what does it have to do with need?
How can we know the Good?
Like many of us, I want to be good and wise and happy. But would we recognise those things if we were given them?
How's life?
This morning, I had what I like to dignify by calling a minor epiphany (you could also just call it "a thought", but where's the fun in that?). The epiphany arrived in a cafe. I sipped my double espresso and stared at my notebook. “I am
One Thought Too Many
Should the man save the stranger or his wife?
Philosophy and Ordinary Life
The actual world had asked something of him. But he lived in the true world and had failed to answer the call.