The Examined Life
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Montaigne in a Selfie Culture, pt 11
Considering Montaigne and his decades-long self inquiry in this time of selfies and high reveal. Continue reading
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Montaigne in a Selfie Culture, part 1.
“Would Socrates, I wonder, take a selfie in the Agora?” Continue reading
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My Year with Montaigne–On Mindfulness
“Montaigne practiced a form of what we today call mindfulness through his essay writing. His quest in writing was to find out how to be ‘fully human” (sic) he tried to recognize when his thoughts went to ‘extraneous incidents.” He would then work to bring this thinking back to the here and now and the Continue reading
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My Summer with Montaigne–“Of Repentance”
“In all affairs, when they are past, however they have turned out, I have little regret.” III.2 Here’s a thought experiment. Imagine that you have come to the end of your life, and as you lie on your death bed, about to expire, you are approached by some sort of spectral demon who tells you Continue reading
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My Summer with Montaigne: “When I dance, I dance…”
Let me give you the full quote from the snippet above: “When I dance, I dance; when I sleep, I sleep. And when I am walking alone in the beautiful orchard, if my thoughts are sometimes preoccupied, the rest of the time I bring them back to the walk, to the orchard, to the sweetness Continue reading
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My Summer with Montaigne: “Of Anger”
“It seemed to me as if I had myself written the book, in some former life, so sincerely it spoke to my thought and experience.” – Emerson on Montaigne’s Essays Anger “moves us; our hand does not guide it, it guides our hand; it holds us, we do not hold it.” I am slow to Continue reading
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