Wisdom on The Culturium

Oct 07 2016

Michel de Montaigne: On Solitude

Alphonse Mucha, Woman in the Wilderness.
Photograph: [Public Domain] Wikimedia Commons

How seclusion from the active life is the only peaceful way to live

Sep 16 2016

Leo Tolstoy: The Three Hermits

Mikhail Nesterov, Hermit Fathers and Immaculate Women.
Photograph: [Public Domain] WikiArt

How individual belief triumphs over religious dogma

Sep 09 2016

Teresa of Ávila: The Ecstasy of Love

Fray Juan de la Miseria, Teresa de Jesús.
Photograph: [Public Domain] Wikimedia Commons

How the interior life is the only path to rhapsodic bliss

Aug 26 2016

Carl Gustav Jung: The Red Book, Liber Novus

C. G. Jung, The Red Book, Liber Novus.
Photograph: Philemon Foundation and W. W. Norton & Company

How an existential crisis precipitated an artistic masterpiece

Aug 12 2016

Alicia Torres: Darshan

Mother Meera.
Photograph: Mother Meera: Darshan in Silence

A homage to Mother Meera

Aug 05 2016

Alan Jacobs: Who Am I?

Paula Marvelly, Alan Jacobs.
Photograph: [CC BY-SA 4.0] The Culturium

A dialogue on the nature of the Self

Jul 15 2016

Marcus Aurelius: Meditations

Eugene Delacroix, Last Words of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius.
Photograph: [Public Domain] Wikimedia Commons

How a Roman emperor stirred the hearts and minds of his people

Jun 24 2016

Xavier Beauvois: Of Gods and Men

Xavier Beauvois, Of Gods and Men.
Photograph: Sony Pictures Classics

Love conquers all … even death

Jun 10 2016

Plato: Phaedrus and the Charioteer

Raphael, The School of Athens, [Plato and Aristotle].
Photograph: Wikimedia Commons

How the ancients’ love of chariot racing became a metaphor for the human condition