Want to stay current with Arthur’s writing? Sign up to get an email every time a new column comes out. Then help came—in the form, as Boethius tells it, of a mysterious and divine visitor to his cell: ...

The Japanese philosophy of wabi-sabi is about noticing and appreciating imperfection, impermanence, and the understated beauty in everyday life. Embracing the principles of wabi-sabi might be the ...

From Plato to Stephen Covey, it’s long been argued that life is more meaningful if guided by a foundational personal philosophy. To that end, here are seven tensions the resolutions of which can help ...

For Ryushun Kusanagi, Buddhism is more than a religion, as it can serve as a philosophy of life to cope with modern daily life. On the other side of the screen appears a Buddhist monk. He appears in ...