“To be, or not to be, that is the question…”
Verily, ‘tis a line quotable not only by every English-speaker, but most non-English-speakers who are scattered across the world.
And while it deserves, and shall forever deserve, our quotation, it no less demands our contemplation.
I’m convinced that this line, and the entire passage of which it’s the opening and defining part, is more than mere poetry, scribbled out by a short-lived bibulous bard at the end of the sixteenth century.
No.
It is, in no exaggerated terms, life’s BIGGEST question–a profound idea over which we’d do well to meditate for a little while.
For the next half hour, that’s precisely what we’ll do.
Tell me, dear friend: how would YOU respond to Hamlet’s question? What would you advise him to do? What would YOU do?
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What is Pneuma by Daniel Finneran?
Mindfulness for the Thinking Mind.
A soothing, soporific voice with which to calm and center yourself.
Episodes on themes as diverse as walking, sleeping, stretching, anxiety, worldly possessions, positive affirmations, lunch hours, and morning commutes. Meditations and sleep stories for every occasion at any stage of life.
From Shakespeare to the Stoics, Coleridge to the Platonists, the Buddha to the Transcendentalists, we'll borrow our wisdom from the best who have ever thought, and strengthen our minds with their collective genius.
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