by Taylor, Thomas | All Recommendations
Plato: Five Dialogues (Cratylus, Phaedo, Parmenides, Timaeus and Critias) Translated by Thomas Taylor “If we are designed to know any thing purely, we must be liberated from the body and behold things with the soul itself.” We were first attracted to Thomas Taylor...
by Hines, Brian | All Recommendations
Return to the One Plotinus’s Guide to God-RealizationA Modern Exposition of an Ancient Classic, The Enneads of Plotinus Brian Hines “The soul loves the Good [the One] because, from the beginning, she has been incited by the Good to love . . . The soul which has this...
by Bishop, Jonathan | All Recommendations
Emerson on the Soul Jonathan Bishop “What your heart thinks great, is great. The soul’s emphasis is always right.” Ralph Waldo Emerson has been many things to many people – a literary muse, a spiritual guide, an exemplar of “self-reliance.” “Most consistently,” as...
by Versluis, Arthur | All Recommendations
Perennial Philosophy Arthur Versluis “Perennial philosophy is a kind of waking up . . . If ordinary life can be likened to a cave, then to awaken is to go outside the cave from the darkness into the light of the sun.” It was hard for us to imagine that a book by...
by Huxley, Aldous | All Recommendations
The Perennial Philosophy Aldous Huxley “This highest common factor in all preceding and subsequent theologies was first committed to writing more than twenty-five centuries ago . . .” Aldous Huxley’s classic The Perennial Philosophy, first published in 1945, remains...
