I resonate with the "generational opportunity" of the moment, and am grateful to be a member of whatever is brewing here! Also, as someone who lives in a monastery (with vowed monastics, and myself as a lay person), I'm intrigued to hear more of what the slow time of a monastery has brought to your perspective and work. I agree that there's an openness to the spiritual and enchanted today, and there are some traditions--monasticism, in my view--that are just waiting there for us to discover the riches of in new ways for our generation. Excited to connect!
I think you might consider going beyond 50 years in looking at conflicting stories. Long ago, Horace Mann said to the first graduating class of Antioch College, “Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.” That quotation haunts me. Perhaps that victory lies in community. It’s time to take another look at my neighborhood. Good, honest interview, Sam. Hope the new membership venture works out well.
"I’m the weirdo who has this deep need to belong, but as soon as I have the safety of that belonging, I immediately want to rebel against the group I feel I belong to."
Holy shit me too but I didn't realize it until I read this 🤯
I resonate with the "generational opportunity" of the moment, and am grateful to be a member of whatever is brewing here! Also, as someone who lives in a monastery (with vowed monastics, and myself as a lay person), I'm intrigued to hear more of what the slow time of a monastery has brought to your perspective and work. I agree that there's an openness to the spiritual and enchanted today, and there are some traditions--monasticism, in my view--that are just waiting there for us to discover the riches of in new ways for our generation. Excited to connect!
100% to the point about human-to-human connection not simply being the means to cure our social problems, but being the valuable ends in themselves!
I think you might consider going beyond 50 years in looking at conflicting stories. Long ago, Horace Mann said to the first graduating class of Antioch College, “Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.” That quotation haunts me. Perhaps that victory lies in community. It’s time to take another look at my neighborhood. Good, honest interview, Sam. Hope the new membership venture works out well.
"I’m the weirdo who has this deep need to belong, but as soon as I have the safety of that belonging, I immediately want to rebel against the group I feel I belong to."
Holy shit me too but I didn't realize it until I read this 🤯
Probably why me and Sam get along.