Planet Soul

Personal Style Is a Spiritual Practice

Your outer self shouldn’t be an afterthought

Mitch Horowitz
Human Parts
Published in
9 min readMay 13, 2020

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A photo of a person holding a mirror that reflects the blue sky. The mirror is covering their face.
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Much of today’s spiritual culture asks us to embrace principles of nonattachment and nonidentification. We typically hear that the material world is an illusion or samsara, which the seeker should learn to disregard, and that what matters most is what we cannot see.

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Mitch Horowitz
Human Parts

"Treats esoteric ideas & movements with an even-handed intellectual studiousness"-Washington Post | PEN Award-winning historian | Censored in China