#Inner Life

Keeping Inner Life Alive in a Noisy Age

William Powers frames modern life not merely as busy but as spiritually endangered. By calling the preservation of inner life the age’s “fiercest need,” he suggests that the deepest struggle is no longer survival alone,...

How Thoughts Color the Soul’s Character

Marcus Aurelius frames the mind as a kind of cloth that takes on the pigment it is repeatedly soaked in. The phrase “dyed with the color of its thoughts” suggests that thinking is not neutral mental traffic; it leaves re...