Ancient Wisdom for a Modern World
A chef’s cancer diagnosis If you were diagnosed with stage IV squamous cell carcinoma-tongue cancer and the doctor told you your only chance of survival required undergoing a brutal surgery that would remove most of your neck, some of your jaw, and your tongue, would you consider it good luck or bad luck? What if,
The outer affects the inner. Behavior shapes your psyche as much as the other way around. – AJ Jacobs, The Year of Living Biblically When I was doing my Ancient Wisdom Project experiments, it was important that I didn’t just read about ancient wisdom, but that I actually physically performed something. That meant meditating, taking ice
Matthew Crawford writes in his book, Shopcraft as Soulcraft, that the corporate manager is highly dependent on managing perceptions to be successful. It’s a relationship game As a result, managers have to spend a good part of the day “managing what other people think of them.” With a sense of being on probation that never
The Bible is an answer to the supreme question: what does God demand of us? Yet the question has gone out of the world. God is portrayed as a mass of vagueness behind a veil of enigmas, and His voice has become alien to our minds, to our hearts, to our souls. We have learned
TLDR Everyone experiences a desire to retreat from the world This desire may come from need to escape “normal” life’s problems But it might be better to engage with your current life in a different spirit, rather than run away from it This is easier said than done The awakened sages call a person wise
By Erica
A few months ago, I wrote about our family’s quest to decide where to live: Northern Virginia or Portland, Oregon.
The quest continues.
We spent a week in the Portland area in March. It was chaotic—sustaining a toddler’s schedule while visiting with friends and family (and indulging in some nights out) made for a whirlwind week.
“To enter heaven is to become more human than you ever succeeded in being on earth; to enter hell, is to be banished from humanity.” – CS Lewis, The Problem of Pain Erin French, the owner and head chef of the popular restaurant, The Lost Kitchen, has an enviable lifestyle. During the restaurant season, she spends
I think a lot about the role work should play in a meaningful life, so I thought it would be helpful to gather a list of (mostly) ancient wisdom type quotes about work or almost about work for some perspective. I offer these without commentary. Work for the sake of rest The Sabbath is not
The whole landscape, unified by the church and its heavenward spire, seemed to say: this is the meaning of all created things: we have been made for no other purpose than that men may use us in raising themselves to God, and in proclaiming the glory of God. We have been fashioned, in all our
3 AM distress On our recent trip to Portland, OR, my not quite 2 year old daughter Sloane would wake up in the middle of the night screaming her head off in the other room. We had sleep trained her since she was six months old, which meant we taught her to “self-soothe” to fall