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...
by King, Ursula | All Recommendations
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Writings Selected with an Introduction by Ursula King “The true summons of the cosmos is a call to consciously share in the great work that goes on within it . . .” For those who have been inspired by Teilhard de Chardin, as well as those...
by Maeterlinck, Maurice | All Recommendations
The Intelligence of the Flowers Maurice Maeterlinck “We have long taken a rather foolish pride in thinking ourselves miraculous, unparalleled beings . . . It is much more consoling to observe that we follow the same road as the soul of this great world.” This...
