Reads tagged with “religion”
Wole Soyinka, the First African Writer to Win the Nobel Prize in Literature, on Faith, Medicine, and the Healing of the Human Spirit
What a continent’s “rich tapestry of intuitive forces” can teach us about healing, of body and of soul.
Ted Turner on the Meaning of Life, the Trouble with Religion, and His Revision of the 10 Commandments
“Our reason for being here is to have a productive, good, long life and to experience the truth that we’re in paradise right now.”
Neuroscientist Sam Harris on Happiness, Spirituality Without Religion, and How to Cultivate the Art of Presence
“Our world is dangerously riven by religious doctrines that all educated people should condemn, and yet there is more to understanding the human condition than science and secular culture generally admit.”
How We Know What We Know: The Art of Seeing with the Eye of the Heart
A timeless guide to “understanding the truth that does not merely inform the mind but liberates the soul.”
C.S. Lewis on Suffering and What It Means to Have Free Will in a Universe of Fixed Laws
“Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself.”
On “Beauty”: Marilynne Robinson on Writing, What Storytelling Can Learn from Science, and the Splendors of Uncertainty
“We are part of a mystery, a splendid mystery within which we must attempt to orient ourselves if we are to have a sense of our own nature.”
The Life of the Mind: Hannah Arendt on Thinking vs. Knowing and the Crucial Difference Between Truth and Meaning
“To lose the appetite for meaning we call thinking and cease to ask unanswerable questions [would be to] lose not only the ability to produce those thought-things that we call works of art but also the capacity to ask all the answerable questions upon which every civilization is founded.”
The Book of Miracles: Rare Medieval Illustrations of Magical Thinking
A visual record of humanity’s most eternal fears and our immutable longing for grace, mercy, and the miraculous.
Why We Hurt Each Other: Tolstoy’s Letters to Gandhi on Love, Violence, and the Truth of the Human Spirit
“Love is the only way to rescue humanity from all ills.”
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