Soul – Sublime https://sublimemagazine.com Inspiration for a Sustainable World Sun, 06 Apr 2025 03:58:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://i0.wp.com/sublimemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Sublime_Logo.jpeg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Soul – Sublime https://sublimemagazine.com 32 32 243252845 Finding Your Soul https://sublimemagazine.com/finding-your-soul-2/ https://sublimemagazine.com/finding-your-soul-2/#respond Sat, 02 Jan 2016 18:10:19 +0000 https://testserver.sublimemagazine.com/sublimewp/finding-your-soul-2/ Some years ago, I was talking to a young woman who, with her husband, was preparing to work with an aid agency in the developing world. It sounded like quite a sacrifice they were making, and I asked her how they had received this vocation. This was the story she told me. When she was...

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]]> https://sublimemagazine.com/finding-your-soul-2/feed/ 0 13364 Freedom for Nothing? https://sublimemagazine.com/freedom-for-nothing/ https://sublimemagazine.com/freedom-for-nothing/#respond Wed, 14 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000 https://testserver.sublimemagazine.com/sublimewp/freedom-for-nothing/ Our culture is based on the exclusion of idealism: we’ve convinced ourselves that the greatest ideal is not to have any, and by doing so we are in danger of privatising our freedom and turning it into personal conquest. Freedom is not an end in itself, but a means to an end. Freedom grants us...

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]]> https://sublimemagazine.com/freedom-for-nothing/feed/ 0 13195 Simplicity & The Solstice https://sublimemagazine.com/simplicity-and-the-solstice/ https://sublimemagazine.com/simplicity-and-the-solstice/#respond Tue, 01 Jul 2014 14:34:26 +0000 https://testserver.sublimemagazine.com/sublimewp/simplicity-and-the-solstice/ It is an irony that living in an environment in which 5 minute showers (when available) are the norm, the only toilet facilities are compost squat loos; ‘home comforts’ are replaced with hard work; cooking or heating water happens mostly in solar/thermal gadgets that take 2-3 times as long and the constantly eye-opening to the...

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]]> https://sublimemagazine.com/simplicity-and-the-solstice/feed/ 0 13120 The Sweetness Of Life https://sublimemagazine.com/the-sweetness-of-life/ https://sublimemagazine.com/the-sweetness-of-life/#respond Thu, 14 Mar 2013 11:40:29 +0000 https://testserver.sublimemagazine.com/sublimewp/the-sweetness-of-life/ French anthropologist Françoise Héritier has taken her vast life experience and poured it into this captivating book. It is essentially a long list of her favorite things in life, which at first glance may seem like a boring read. However, Héritier holds your interest with an endless reel of humorous, thought-provoking and heartwarming musings. At...

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]]> https://sublimemagazine.com/the-sweetness-of-life/feed/ 0 12738 Wear Your Heart On Your… Pocket https://sublimemagazine.com/wear-your-heart-on-your-pocket/ https://sublimemagazine.com/wear-your-heart-on-your-pocket/#respond Mon, 17 Sep 2012 17:20:51 +0000 https://testserver.sublimemagazine.com/sublimewp/wear-your-heart-on-your-pocket/ In time for London Fashion week esteemed Italian car brand Alfa Romeo have collaborated with London fashion label PPQ to design six unique pocket squares in aid of Heart Research UK. It is style with a heart; appropriate seeing as the Alfa Romeo catchphrase is ‘without heart, we would be mere machines.’ Pocket squares have...

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]]> https://sublimemagazine.com/wear-your-heart-on-your-pocket/feed/ 0 12586 Seeking Silence in a Noisy World https://sublimemagazine.com/seeking-silence-in-a-noisy-world/ https://sublimemagazine.com/seeking-silence-in-a-noisy-world/#respond Mon, 05 Sep 2011 10:50:00 +0000 https://testserver.sublimemagazine.com/sublimewp/seeking-silence-in-a-noisy-world/ Ford takes us on a whistle-stop tour of different religions, people and landscapes: from Buddhist meditation and Quaker silence to Christian hermits; from travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor and Thomas Merton, to the Australian outback and the Black Hills of New Mexico. He also appeals to the lover of nature, recommending the song of the...

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]]> https://sublimemagazine.com/seeking-silence-in-a-noisy-world/feed/ 0 12241 The Case for Working with Your Hands https://sublimemagazine.com/the-case-for-working-with-your-hands/ https://sublimemagazine.com/the-case-for-working-with-your-hands/#respond Wed, 14 Jul 2010 13:13:09 +0000 https://testserver.sublimemagazine.com/sublimewp/the-case-for-working-with-your-hands/ After graduating as a political philosopher, Matthew Crawford fell into a lucrative job as director of a think-tank, yet got no fulfilment from it. Boldly deciding to break out and follow his real passion for motorbikes, he found intellectual and personal freedom in fixing motorbikes. With simplicity and depth, wit and wisdom, the author tells...

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]]> https://sublimemagazine.com/the-case-for-working-with-your-hands/feed/ 0 12291 Blood Matters https://sublimemagazine.com/blood-matters-a-journey-along-the-genetic-frontier/ https://sublimemagazine.com/blood-matters-a-journey-along-the-genetic-frontier/#respond Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000 https://testserver.sublimemagazine.com/sublimewp/blood-matters-a-journey-along-the-genetic-frontier/ With staggering courage, she comes to terms with the loss of her mother aged only 49, while embarking on a quest to learn as much as she can about genetics. Knowing that the flaw in her own genetic make-up will probably kill her, Gessen’s journey into the subject, brilliantly structured in sections of Past, Present and Future,...

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