Perennial Meditations
by Perennial Leader Project
Latest episode
St. Thomas Aquinas: "The Things We Love" | Perennial Meditations
St. Thomas Aquinas: "The Things We Love" | Perennial Meditations
About this podcast
Perennial Meditations is a podcast for seekers and curious minds. Each episode delivers a quote, a meditation, and a practice—inspired by the writings of Stoics, Saints, and Sages. Learn more at perennial.substack.com.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 269 episodes
- St. Thomas Aquinas: "The Things We Love" | Perennial Meditations · 6 min · Episode 269📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe “The things that we love tell us what we are.” — Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica We…
- Dostoevsky: "Beauty Will Save the World" | Perennial Meditations · 6 min · Episode 268📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe “Beauty will save the world.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot He meant it literally…
- St. Teresa of Ávila on the Interior Castle | Perennial Meditations · 6 min · Episode 267📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe “The important thing is not to think much, but to love much.” — St. Teresa of Ávila…
- Montaigne on the Human Condition | Perennial Meditations · 5 min · Episode 266📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe “Every man carries the whole stamp of the human condition within him.” — Montaigne…
- Confucius on Two Kinds of Lost | Perennial Meditations · 4 min · Episode 265📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe “Learning without reflection is labor lost. Reflection without learning is perilous.”…
- St. Francis and the open hand | Perennial Meditations · 4 min · Episode 264📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe “It is in giving that we receive.” — St. Francis of Assisi This sounds like a…
- Plato on Conquering Oneself | Perennial Meditations · 4 min · Episode 263📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe “For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.” — Plato, The…
- Socrates on the Examined Life | Perennial Meditations · 4 min · Episode 262📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe “The unexamined life is not worth living.” — Socrates, Plato’s Apology He said these…
- Heraclitus on the Only Constant | Perennial Meditations · 4 min · Episode 261📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe “The only constant is change.” — Heraclitus, Fragments We have all heard this. We nod…
- Ep. 260: Monastic Wisdom for the Rhythms of Life | Perennial Wisdom · 8 min · Episode 260📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe You’ve likely experienced the optimistic reset: a fresh note, a new week, and a…
- Ep. 259: How to Quit - A Philosophical Guide | Perennial Wisdom · 10 min · Episode 259📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe Today’s essay is about something most of us rarely talk about. Quitting. From the…
- Ep. 258: Stop Fixing Yourself. Try This Instead. | Perennial Wisdom · 11 min · Episode 258📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe Many of us treat our inner life like a home renovation project. If I could just fix…
- Ep. 257: A Meditation on the "Present" of Christmas | Perennial Wisdom · 12 min · Episode 257📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe Christmas invites us to reflect on gifts, but the most meaningful one is the hardest…
- Ep. 256: Sinner and Saint - The Paradox of Human Development | Perennial Wisdom · 21 min · Episode 256📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe Before we begin, it may help to name the kind of territory we’re entering—because this…
- Ep. 255: The Saint's Guide to Happiness | Perennial Wisdom · 11 min · Episode 255📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe In this episode of Perennial Wisdom, we explore the profound and surprising vision of…
- Ep. 254: How to Be Bored - An Ancient Guide to Being Where You Are | Perennial Wisdom · 13 min · Episode 254📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe In this episode of Perennial Wisdom, we explore the art of boredom: a journey through…
- Ep. 253: The Art of Thinking - From Socrates to St. Augustine | Perennial Wisdom · 12 min · Episode 253📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe In this episode of Perennial Wisdom, we trace a journey from the streets of ancient…
- Ep. 252: The Surprising Wisdom of Schopenhauer's Pessimism | Perennial Wisdom · 11 min · Episode 252📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe In this episode of Perennial Wisdom, we enter the world of Arthur Schopenhauer—the…
- Ep. 251: Kierkegaard on the courage to choose | Perennial Wisdom · 11 min · Episode 251📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe In this episode of Perennial Wisdom, we sit down with Søren Kierkegaard, the…
- Ep. 250: Dostoevsky - Freedom, Suffering, and Love · 11 min · Episode 250📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe In this episode of Perennial Wisdom, we explore the moral and psychological depth of…
