Thinking in the Heart — the Heart as the Ruling Part of the Soul“By ruling part of the soul is meant that which is most truly soul proper, in which arise presentations and impulses and from which issues…Oct 12, 2024Oct 12, 2024
Roberto Assagioli, a Stoic reappraisalWhen I first met Roberto Assagioli, in 1969, I knew nothing of Stoicism, and during five years I studied with him he never once mentioned…Jan 8, 20241Jan 8, 20241
Evening Review of the DayThe evening review of the day, and also the preview of the day, both have a long history the origins of which are lost in the mists of…Nov 20, 2021Nov 20, 2021
Simplicius: Comments on Epictetus’ Handbook, Chapter XXVISimplicius (c. 490 — c. 560 CE) was a Neoplatonist who wrote a commentary on Epictetus’ Enchiridion.Feb 17, 2021Feb 17, 2021
Nicholas RoerichThe Russian painter, Nicholas Roerich, in the first few paragraphs of the last chapter in his book, SHAMBHALA, describes his own painting…Jan 3, 2021Jan 3, 2021
Understanding EvilYehidah Ashlag, the famous 20th Century Kabbalist on the cause, and cure, of evil.Jan 3, 2021Jan 3, 2021
Philo of Alexandria on will, free-will, and self-determined willo of Alexandria on will, free-will, and self-determined willDec 29, 2020Dec 29, 2020
Musonius Rufus, Roman PhilosopherThis is a summary of a lecture given by the Roman philosopher, Musonius Rufus (lived in the 1st century CE), on the subject of training in…Dec 27, 2020Dec 27, 2020
Roberto Assagioli’s EthicsRoberto Assagioli specifically excluded ethical considerations from his writings on the subject of Psychosynthesis, the school of…Dec 27, 2020Dec 27, 2020
Seneca on how to study philosophyIn Seneca’s Letters from a Stoic, Letter 2 is from beginning to end about how best to study philosophy. In discussing the subject he first…Dec 27, 2020Dec 27, 2020
Dante as Stoic PhilosopherAt the beginning of the second book of Dante Alighieri’s Divina Comedia, in Purgatorio: Canto 1, Dante who has traveled through Hell, and…Nov 5, 2020Nov 5, 2020
The Stoic Four Cardinal VirtuesThe Stoic Four Cardinal Virtues continued to exert an influence on European thinking long after the Roman emperor Justinian I closed all…Nov 4, 2020Nov 4, 2020
Stoic Journey: The concepts of good and evil in the philosophy of the Stoic philosopher EpictetusMalcolm SchoshaNov 3, 2020Nov 3, 2020
