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# The Right Hemisphere Way of Therese Lisieux
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/the-right-hemisphere-way-of-therese-lisieux/
- Published: 2023-03-10T05:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-03-23T21:30:14.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: The Hemisphere Hypothesis, Briefly, Therese of Lisieux, Existence Strikes Back Part V

St. Therese's is the "little way." The left hemisphere values the big. The left hemisphere demands answers and solutions, which require increasingly large effort. The Little Way is a rebuke of such a disposition. 

She placed no value on abstractions, opting instead for the real and immediate. 

> "She had a deep distrust of making surveys and standing back to take her bearings or working out the theoretical implications of every move. To make a survey, one has to separate oneself from the concrete reality of the truth here and now; for Therese, a survey means 'theory, and theory leads one into the world of 'problems,' where untruth begins." Hans Urs von Balthasar, *Two Sisters in the Spirit* (Ignatius, 1992), p. 67.

> *The left hemisphere is the hemisphere of abstraction and theory. Iain McGilchrist, The Matter with Things, p. 30.*

> *The right hemisphere is the hemisphere of experience: fresh, unique, embodied . . . being present with things as they are. Id.*