India
Bhagavad Gita
Krishna's counsel on the field of action.
In Cultivation
Library
Many lamps, one light. A growing collection of fragments and pointers — not as authority, but as companions for the walk.
China
Tao Te Ching
Lao Tzu on the way that cannot be named.
Japan
Zen Koans
Questions that undo the questioner.
Europe
Christian Mystics
Eckhart, Teresa, John of the Cross.
Persia
Sufi Poets
Rumi, Hafiz, Attar — the language of love.
India
Yoga Sūtras
Patanjali on the stilling of the mind.
Many lands
Indigenous Wisdom
The earth as elder, the elder as kin.
Athens & beyond
Philosophy
Plotinus, Spinoza, Schopenhauer — and after.
Modern
Contemplative Poetry
Rilke, Tagore, Whyte, Oliver.
The library is being cultivated slowly. Each entry will open into curated fragments — invitations, not pronouncements.