Dear Friends,
Welcome to Part XIV of our course. Over the past few months, we’ve discussed the wisdom of impermanence, connection, and not knowing. We've also explored principles to live by through the cardinal and theological virtues. Through exercises (or tools for transformation), we learned about the art of noticing, examining, and mastering.
In last week’s medication, we introduced various ways to think about the philosophy of meditation (and the contemplative life before that). Today, we examine our final practice—The Art of Journaling.
***We will conclude the course next week with a review and a recommended reading list! Thank you for reading and listening along the way!
The Art of Journaling
As discussed in The Art of Examined Living, examining one's actions is an essential aspect of leading an intentional life. Introspection and other perennial habits help us learn from the past and live in the present.
These types of practices date back thousands of years.
A century before Socrates famously proclaimed that “the unexamined life is not worth living,” the philosopher Pythagoras stressed the need for introspection.
