Perennial Meditations

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Perennial Meditations is a podcast for seekers and curious minds. Each episode delivers a quote, a meditation, and a practice—inspired by the writings of Stoics, Saints, and Sages. Learn more at perennial.substack.com.

  1. 7月23日

    St. Thomas Aquinas: "The Things We Love" | Perennial Meditations

    📮 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 intact. The person we are becoming is always just slightly ahead of the person we currently are. We know who we mean to be. We are simply not there yet. [...] ---   🖇️ Stay Connected:  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/perennialmeditations/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@PerennialMeditations--- 🦉 Additional Resources:  Perennial Meditations archive: https://perennial.substack.com/archiveListen to more podcasts: https://www.perennialleader.com/podcasts

  2. 7月20日

    Dostoevsky: "Beauty Will Save the World" | Perennial Meditations

    📮 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 deepened—convinced that he had seen something in the extremity of human suffering that a comfortable life conceals. [...] ---   🖇️ Stay Connected:  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/perennialmeditations/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@PerennialMeditations--- 🦉 Additional Resources:  Perennial Meditations archive: https://perennial.substack.com/archiveListen to more podcasts: https://www.perennialleader.com/podcasts

  3. 7月11日

    St. Teresa of Ávila on the Interior Castle | Perennial Meditations

    📮 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 is beautifully annotated. The territory has never been entered. [...] ---   🖇️ Stay Connected:  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/perennialmeditations/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@PerennialMeditations--- 🦉 Additional Resources:  Perennial Meditations archive: https://perennial.substack.com/archiveListen to more podcasts: https://www.perennialleader.com/podcasts

  4. 7月9日

    Montaigne on the Human Condition | Perennial Meditations

    📮 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 EssaysThis 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 than features of the common human inheritance. We curate carefully. We present the edited version. We assume, without quite deciding to, that everyone else is managing better than we are. [...] ---   🖇️ Stay Connected:  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/perennialmeditations/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@PerennialMeditations--- 🦉 Additional Resources:  Perennial Meditations archive: https://perennial.substack.com/archiveListen to more podcasts: https://www.perennialleader.com/podcasts

  5. 6月22日

    Confucius on Two Kinds of Lost | Perennial Meditations

    📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe “Learning without reflection is labor lost. Reflection without learning is perilous.”  — Confucius, Analects The first type consumes everything—self-help, philosophy, psychology, spiritual wisdom. They can quote books, explain concepts, and pinpoint what needs to change in their lives. Yet, despite all this knowledge, nothing actually changes. Reading has become a substitute for action.  They might know more about patience than anyone else, yet they remain the least patient person in the room. The second type is always in motion. They've stayed in the same job, relationship, or recurring struggle for years, calling it experience. Yet it's not true experience; it’s the same year repeated endlessly, without pausing to reflect on the lessons it offers.  They remain busy and exhausted, but rarely wiser. [...] #philosophy #lifelessons #meditation #podcast ---   🖇️ Stay Connected:  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/perennialmeditations/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@PerennialMeditations--- 🦉 Additional Resources:  Perennial Meditations archive: https://perennial.substack.com/archiveListen to more podcasts: https://www.perennialleader.com/podcasts--- 📌 Chapter Markers: 0:00 Introduction 0:25 Quote 0:35 Meditation 2:35 Practice 3:00 Closing

  6. 6月18日

    St. Francis and the open hand | Perennial Meditations

    📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe “It is in giving that we receive.”  — St. Francis of Assisi This sounds like a pleasantry, but it is actually a provocation. Most of us are wired to assume that receiving comes first, that we give from surplus, and that generosity is what happens after our own needs have been sufficiently met. Put plainly, we will be more generous when we have more.  We will give more time when we have more of it. We will open our hands when we feel secure enough to let go. St. Francis of Assisi, the 13th-century Italian friar who gave away everything he owned, including the clothes on his back, lived as though this logic were exactly backward. He did not give because he had enough. He gave because giving was the only way to discover what enough actually meant. The open hand, he found, receives differently than the closed one. Not necessarily more, but more freely. [...] #philosophy #spirituality #catholicsaints #podcast ---   🖇️ Stay Connected:  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/perennialmeditations/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@PerennialMeditations--- 🦉 Additional Resources:  Perennial Meditations archive: https://perennial.substack.com/archiveListen to more podcasts: https://www.perennialleader.com/podcasts--- 📌 Chapter Markers: 0:00 Introduction 0:25 Quote 0:35 Meditation 2:35 Practice 3:00 Closing

  7. 6月15日

    Plato on Conquering Oneself | Perennial Meditations

    📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe “For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.”  — Plato, The Laws Every tradition has a version of this. The Stoics called it discipline. The Buddhists called it renunciation. The Christian mystics called it mortification of the self. The language changes. The diagnosis is the same. We are not, by nature, unified. We contain competing appetites, contradictory impulses, and desires that pull us away from our deepest values. We want to be generous, yet we want to keep what is ours. We want to be present, yet we want to be elsewhere. We commit to change, only to see the old pattern reemerge before our resolve has cooled. Plato saw this clearly. The soul, he argued, is not a single thing but a kind of inner republic—reason, spirit, and appetite each pressing their claim, each demanding to be heard. [...] #philosophy #lifelessons #wisdom #podcast ---   🖇️ Stay Connected:  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/perennialmeditations/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@PerennialMeditations--- 🦉 Additional Resources:  Perennial Meditations archive: https://perennial.substack.com/archiveListen to more podcasts: https://www.perennialleader.com/podcasts--- 📌 Chapter Markers: 0:00 Introduction 0:25 Quote 0:35 Meditation 2:35 Practice 3:00 Closing

  8. 6月11日

    Socrates on the Examined Life | Perennial Meditations

    📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe “The unexamined life is not worth living.” — Socrates, Plato’s Apology He said these words at his trial. Not in a lecture hall or a private dialogue with friends, but standing before a jury of five hundred Athenians who were deciding whether he should live or die. He had been charged with corrupting the youth of Athens and impiety toward the gods. He was seventy years old. He could have apologized, softened his position, and said what they needed to hear.  He refused. It cost him his life. Socrates wrote nothing. Everything we know of him comes through his students, primarily Plato, which means what survived was not a system or a doctrine but a method. A way of questioning. He wandered the markets and streets of Athens, asking people to examine what they claimed to know—about justice, courage, beauty, the good life—and found, almost without exception, that the closer you looked, the less certain things became. [...] #philosophy #lifelessons #wisdom #podcast ---   🖇️ Stay Connected:  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/perennialmeditations/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@PerennialMeditations--- 🦉 Additional Resources:  Perennial Meditations archive: https://perennial.substack.com/archiveListen to more podcasts: https://www.perennialleader.com/podcasts--- 📌 Chapter Markers: 0:00 Introduction 0:25 Quote 0:35 Meditation 2:50 Practice 3:10 Closing

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Perennial Meditations is a podcast for seekers and curious minds. Each episode delivers a quote, a meditation, and a practice—inspired by the writings of Stoics, Saints, and Sages. Learn more at perennial.substack.com.

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  • 創作者
    Perennial Leader Project
  • 活躍年代
    2021年 - 2026年
  • 集數
    269
  • 年齡分級
    兒少適宜
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    © J.W. Bertolotti
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    Perennial Meditations

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