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Perennial Wisdom is a podcast for seekers and curious minds. Each episode seeks to uncover universal truths and enduring ideas from philosophical and spiritual traditions. Learn more at perennial.substack.com.
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St. Thomas Aquinas: "The Things We Love" | Perennial Meditations (opens the original)
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📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe “The things that we love tell us what we are.” — Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica We are very good at describing the person we intend to be. Generous—just waiting for the right moment. Present—once things settle down. Disciplined—starting Monday. We carry these self-descriptions with considerable confidence, updating them periodically to account for recent failures while leaving the essential portrait inta
Dostoevsky: "Beauty Will Save the World" | Perennial Meditations (opens the original)
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📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe “Beauty will save the world.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot He meant it literally. Fyodor Dostoevsky stood before a firing squad at twenty-eight, heard the order, and was reprieved at the last possible moment in a calculated act of cruelty. He survived years of imprisonment in Siberia, epilepsy, gambling addiction, and grinding poverty. And he emerged from all of it with his faith not merely intact but de
St. Teresa of Ávila on the Interior Castle | Perennial Meditations (opens the original)
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📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe “The important thing is not to think much, but to love much.” — St. Teresa of Ávila, The Interior Castle Most of us are more familiar with wisdom than we are changed by it. We read carefully, reflect sincerely, and, over years of honest effort, gather a considerable understanding of what the interior life is meant to look like. And yet we remain, beneath all that understanding, somehow untouched. The map i
Montaigne on the Human Condition | Perennial Meditations (opens the original)
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📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe “Every man carries the whole stamp of the human condition within him.” — Montaigne, The Essays This is either deeply humbling or quietly liberating, depending on the day. We spend considerable energy maintaining the impression that we have things more or less together—that the anxiety, the pettiness, the envy, the self-doubt, the moments of cowardice and smallness are exceptions to who we really are rather
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