Easter Reading
Tyro and I have a nice discussion going on over on his blog which started with the Resurrection and has now progressed into a discussion of the Sermon on the Mount.
It reminded me of how much I love the writings of Tolstoy and Marcus Arelius. I know I’ve mentioned my admiration of Tolstoy before, but Marcus Arelius is awesome too. What amazed me when I read Meditations was how true the things he said were and how much just as relevant they are today. I was stunned and awed. It really proved to me that there is a fundamental Truth in humanity. How else - when so much, almost everything, has changed in the world and with society since then - could so much remain true? Not only did they remain true, but they spoke to me deeply. They touched me at the core of my ethics, they seemed to tap into my soul.
