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If You Meet the Buddha, Kill Him

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Zen might help with your existential struggle.

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The Revolt Against Essence

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Getting to know the most popular philosophy of the 20th century. There's a reason Zen, Kerouac, Salinger, and Forrest Gump were, and continue to be, so popular.

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Stop Being So Serious: Ten Hints

Should be required in these oh-so serious times: On the Unseriousness of Human Affairs
I Found C.S. Lewis Reincarnate in a Flimsy Paperback My Parish was Giving Away Free

I've always kind of looked down my nose at Matthew Kelly's books. I've been a moron.
Rodriguez, Mother Teresa, and the Garden

Gardening as monastic. The garden as a monastery.
This Monk was Even More Interesting than the Dos Equis Guy

A Monk of the Eastern Church: A brief life. (And 18 things you can learn from reading the Monk.)
Jimmy Buffet: Hymnographer

How Jimmy Buffet can help cultivate the virtue of detachment
If You Meet the Buddha, Kill Him

Zen might help with your existential struggle.
How to Take a Stance without Taking a Stance

In this age of uncertainty, you need beliefs and practices but not dogmas and preaching. Develop a stance, but be aware that you're on sand, not a stump.
The Revolt Against Essence

Getting to know the most popular philosophy of the 20th century. There's a reason Zen, Kerouac, Salinger, and Forrest Gump were, and continue to be, so popular.

Hate the River-Rat!

Illiterate, suspicious, intensely clannish- blond, and usually ugly, river-rats make ideal bootleggers.
Southern Literary Figure Hated Confederate Statues

Will Percy was not a BLM advocate, much less an Antifa subversive. He was “the embodiment of Southern culture, ‘defender of traditions, poet, gracious host.’”
Carting Away Hobbits

Gardeners came by arrangement, and removed in wheel-barrows those that had inadvertently remained behind
The Real Transylvania

William Penn was so impressed by the religious freedom in Transylvania that he almost named his American colony “Transylvania.”
What the Frick, Amazon?

Amazon has released an excellent documentary about what James Burnham called "The Suicide of the West."
Oh Mighty TDE Seer

My 2009 notes about James Martin's first book.

"We cannot be happy unless we love." Dorothy Day
"No page is more welcome to the Muses than that which knows how to combine grave and gay, and to refresh the weary mind with helpful trifles." Joseph Epstein
"Prostitution is legal in Nevada but mandatory in D.C." Bill Kauffman
“I want nothing to do with politicians—they are not men; they cease to be men, in becoming politicians. Their hearts wither away, and die out of their bodies.” Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Conversation is the casualty in the empire of noise." Bill Kauffman
"The Carmelite Rule prescribes: 'Be careful not to indulge in a great deal of talk, for. . . sin will not be wanting where there is much talk.'” Cardinal Sarah
Three AM: the soul’s midnight. Ray Bradbury
"Any little boy who was not raised with little Negro children might just as well not have been raised at all." Will Percy, affectionately remembering his childhood friends in the South.