<![CDATA[The Long Path To Wisdom]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/long-path-wisdom Audiobook readings of the classics of western literature to include: Durant, Jung, Mortimer Adler, a splattering of poetry from the University on a Bookshelf, and books of the Great Books of the Western World Series.

These readings provide like-minded curious and busy individuals the background to educate themselves on the philosophies and history of western society.

A more complete view of the Occident on the long path to wisdom.

For you my dear, because I love you.

]]> RSS.com 2026.401.141116 Thu, 23 Apr 2026 01:10:21 GMT en ef20007b-a6dc-52ac-8d62-c1456baf11d3 https://media.rss.com/long-path-wisdom/20260402_100406_1fa51d1b7cd5833530b818f831359962.png The Long Path To Wisdom https://rss.com/podcasts/long-path-wisdom yes JC Sanford JC Sanford false episodic podcast false <![CDATA[Wordsworth - Tintern Abbey]]> Tintern Abbey- from William Wordsworth

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45527/lines-composed-a-few-miles-above-tintern-abbey-on-revisiting-the-banks-of-the-wye-during-a-tour-july-13-1798

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/long-path-wisdom/2711816 3f613464-66d8-4d3b-874e-4e48a5d23d39 454 full 1 1 2 2 false Thu, 09 Apr 2026 02:36:02 GMT <![CDATA[Introduction to Long Path to Wisdom]]> Welcome to the long path to wisdom series introduction.

Audiobook versions of the Classics read by your host Jack, with side bars for commentary and notes.

Quotes:

My Symphony by William Henry Channing

To live content with small means. To seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion. To be worthy not respectable, and wealthy not rich. To study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly, to listen to stars, birds, babes, and sages with open heart, to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony.

JRR Tolkien

Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check. But that is not what I have found.

It is the small every day deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay.

Small acts of kindness and love.

Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all its beauty, who has been, is, and always will be beautiful— is Truth.”

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/long-path-wisdom/2711721 801d57d4-0ae6-4218-bfa4-ec0d379fcd27 193 full 1 1 1 1 false Thu, 09 Apr 2026 01:46:34 GMT false <![CDATA[Introduction to Wordsworth]]> Introduction, Wikipedia explanation and my view of his writing.

-Jcs

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/william-wordsworth

wikipedia:

romanticism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanticism#:~:text=Romanticism%20(also%20known%20as%20the%20Romantic%20movement,Age%20of%20Enlightenment%20and%20the%20Industrial%20Revolution.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/long-path-wisdom/2759338 22e024cb-485c-4a32-b95f-9621d6f8f0a4 246 full 1 1 false Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:21:08 GMT <![CDATA[Matthew Arnold - Memorial Verses April 1850]]> https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43594/memorial-verses-april-1850

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/long-path-wisdom/2759434 21997968-548f-466b-b4bb-e7e849f38181 194 full false Thu, 23 Apr 2026 01:10:19 GMT <![CDATA[Wordsworth - Lucy Grey (or solitude)]]> https://allpoetry.com/Lucy-Gray-_or-Solitude_

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/long-path-wisdom/2759394 ae737191-b663-4110-a713-0bdabdcd7d1c 136 full false Thu, 23 Apr 2026 01:03:42 GMT <![CDATA[Wordsworth - I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud]]> https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45521/i-wandered-lonely-as-a-cloud

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/long-path-wisdom/2759390 0de17d15-cfe6-492e-b1ec-2ef0e6b3a103 66 full false Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:57:41 GMT <![CDATA[Wordsworth - To the Cuckoo]]> https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45562/to-the-cuckoo

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/long-path-wisdom/2759381 e0461c95-8e65-47ff-b36c-364c21cc4947 80 full false Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:51:53 GMT <![CDATA[Walter Savage Lander to Wordsworth]]> Walter Savage Landor

To Wordsworth:

https://internetpoem.com/walter-savage-landor/to-wordsworth-poem/#google_vignette

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