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Flourishing

If you want to flourish, you need to be connected to full reality. If you want to be connected to full reality, you need to be connected to the Tao. If you want to be connected to the Tao, you need your right hemisphere to reclaim its rightful role as the master.

Feeling Hurried? Blame Netflix

One quality about modern life that no one denies: it's rushed. It's hurried. Frenzied. No one feels like they have enough time. There's a simple explanation: Modern life is fun. It's interesting. Tons of worthy things grab our attention. The adjective "

"To Play is to Contemplate," James Schall

"One should live out one's days playing at certain games--sacrificing, singing, and dancing." Plato, The Laws

How to Make a Cocktail

Start by approaching it with your right hemisphere

Ten Totally Impractical Observations about Life that You Need to Hear

I don't think Fr. Schall knew it, but his book is a relentless celebration of the right hemisphere.

The Art of Listening Opens the Right Hemisphere

Three Ways to War Poetically

Language is where our brains hit the world. We need to cultivate it in a right-hemispheric way.

Attack the Left Hemisphere with Satire

Counter-Conduct and Flourishing are the Same Things Except They're Not

Modernity is left-hemispheric. It has led to a culture of left hemisphere presumptions, conditions, and conclusions. As a result, it has led to a population of people with atrophied right hemispheres. Each of us has an obligation to reinvigorate our right hemispheres. We owe it to ourselves; we owe it

P. S. 51 to the End

Paul Hundt at The Lamp

Leisure is Counter-Conduct

In the modern world of "total work" demanded by the left hemisphere, we need to carve out leisure. It's helpful to understand what "leisure" is.