Today we start an exploration of the role of suffering and faith, and how these formerly ubiquitous categories of the human experience can be reframed to help us in the West ease into the shitstorms ahead! (✿◠‿◠)

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Here’s the links to the texts discussed today:

Marcus Aurelius - Meditations: maximusveritas.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Marcus-Aurelius-Meditations.pdf

George Ripley - Compound of Alchemy: https://www.labirintoermetico.com/01Alchimia/Ripley_G_Compound_of_Alchemy_et_al.pdf

Viktor Frankl - Man’s Search for Meaning: https://www.stgregoriosudaipur.ac.in/pdf/fiction/632ecf70b27a5-man-s-search-for-meaning.pdf

St John of the Cross - Dark Night of the Soul: https://basilica.ca/documents/2016/10/St.%20John%20of%20the%20Cross-Dark%20night%20of%20the%20soul.pdf

The Bhagavad Gita: https://ebooks.tirumala.org/downloads/The%20Bhagavad%20Gita.pdf

Epictetus - Enchiridion: https://www.colorado.edu/herbst/sites/default/files/attached-files/the_enchiridion_epictetus.pdf

Shantideva - The Way of the Bodhisattva: https://wisdomcompassion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/The-Way-of-the-Bodhisattva-Bodhicaryavatara.pdf

Thomas a Kempis - The Imitation of Christ: https://www.basilica.ca/documents/2016/10/Thomas%20A%20Kempis-The%20Imitation%20of%20Christ.pdf