LIBRARY FILE

Oceanside reading lounge

This shelf is not meant as a complete curriculum. It is a small table of books that circle questions I keep returning to: judgment, spirit, taste, discipline, and the pressure modern life places on the interior life.

Oceanside tobacco cafe reading table with one smoking pipe, blue ashtray, one open notebook, fountain pen, sparkling water, Chartreuse-style bottle, Alaska cocktail, coffee, compass, flowers, candles, and Caribbean skyroad view.

Recommended literature for your perusal

The selections here lean toward books that sharpen attention rather than merely fill time. Some are metaphysical, some historical, some literary, and some practical; together they form a small cabinet of works concerned with order, inwardness, and the formation of judgment.

PDF The Reign of Quantity

Rene Guenon. A severe account of modernity, measure, and the loss of quality.

PDF The Crisis of the European Mind

Paul Hazard. Europe at the moment certainty begins to rearrange itself.

PDF Becoming Supernatural

Dr. Joe Dispenza. Mind, habit, body, and the possibility of disciplined change.

PDF The Sufferings of Young Werther

J. W. von Goethe. Feeling, style, youth, and the danger of interior weather.

PDF Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man

Friedrich Schiller. Beauty, freedom, and the education of perception.

PDF The Science of Getting Rich

Wallace D. Wattles. A compact practical text on discipline, attention, and material ambition.