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Shabbat Reading: Lezsek Kołakowski's Is God Happy?
No, God probably is not happy, but then the question arises: are we?
Yeshua Tolle
Apr 28, 20241 min read


from My Commonplace Book (tolerating totalitarianism)
"To tolerate totalitarian movements within a democratic society means just that: to tolerate them, and nothing more."
Yeshua Tolle
Apr 21, 20241 min read


Shabbat Reading: BenjamÃn Labatut's When We Cease to Understand the World
What will we see when we look down?
Yeshua Tolle
Apr 21, 20241 min read


from My Commonplace Book (mass hysteria)
"Je me croyais à un meeting de masses, à quelque manifestations politique. Mais c’est leur culte qu’ils célèbrent !"
Yeshua Tolle
Apr 7, 20241 min read


Shabbat Reading: Czesław Miłosz's The Captive Mind
Three decades after the Fall of Communism, the lessons of The Captive Mind may gird us against the calls of a New Faith.
Yeshua Tolle
Mar 31, 20241 min read


from My Commonplace Book (living without Ketman)
"Today man believes there is nothing in him, so he accepts anything."
Yeshua Tolle
Mar 27, 20241 min read


Shabbat Reading: Juan Rulfo's Pedro Páramo
This slim, hallucinatory novel, set in revolutionary era Mexico, demands tough readers.
Yeshua Tolle
Mar 24, 20241 min read


Shabbat Reading: William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!
Absalom, Absalom! has been called the great Southern novel. All I know is that it’s great.
Yeshua Tolle
Mar 17, 20241 min read


Shabbat Reading: Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
Austen is lighter, funnier, more sparkling by far than any novelist today.
Yeshua Tolle
Mar 10, 20241 min read
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