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The quiet art of returning to the self
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A healing journey through attention, restraint, and the ancient practices that gather a scattered day back toward the self.
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What We Owe a Text We Disagree With
On the difference between dismissing a difficult passage and doing the slower work of disagreeing well.
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Every serious reader of old texts eventually meets a passage they cannot accept: a claim, an instruction, or an assumption that collides with something they hold firmly.
There are two fast exits from this collision, and both cost more than they appear to. The first is dismissal: deciding the passage, or the whole text, is simply a product of its time and owed nothing further. The second is forced harmonization: bending one's own convictions, or the plain sense of the passage, until the conflict disappears.
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