Uncivil Savant Podcast

If you want to quieten your mind do this: go to the river and stare at the surface, do not allow your eyes to move at all...Published here with transcript, notes and more images, November 24th 2022. Get full access to Uncivil Savant at carolineross.substack.com/subscribe

There is a line in a quatrain by Rumi often rendered as, ‘There are a thousand ways to pray’. But it literally reads, ‘There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground’.How much of life goes missing when we speak only of disembodied ideas? Replaying the words of a prayer as a voice in our heads is not the same as lowering our bodies to the earth and placing our mouths softly against it. Feeling glad that Scottish country dancing is still popular is not the same as regularly hurtling through

Welcome to the first of the podcast-hosted audios of all Uncivil Savant posts, so they can all live in one place, for easier listening. After over a year of weekly audio versions of posts, since first publishing on Substack, it seemed a good idea to use the podcast feature for those who always prefer to listen, rather than read my work. As time progresses I hope to add other audio and musical extras.For now, welcome. I hope you enjoy these posts and catch up on some you may have missed. Feel free to