Reads from October 2016
Abraham Lincoln on Living with Loss: His Magnificent Letter of Consolation to a Grief-stricken Young Woman
On trusting that time will transmute the unbearable pain of grief into “a sad sweet feeling in your heart.”
A Small Dark Light: Ursula K. Le Guin on the Legacy of the Tao Te Ching and What It Continues to Teach Us About Personal and Political Power 2,500 Years Later
“It is the profound modesty of the language that offers what so many people for so many centuries have found in this book: a pure apprehension of the mystery of which we are part.”
Time Is When: A Charming Vintage Children’s Book About the Most Perplexing Dimension of Existence
“Time is from before to now; from now to later. Time is when.”
Meditation Teacher Sharon Salzberg on What Compassion Really Means and How We Can Train Our Attention Toward It
How a continuing sense of mutual discovery creates the opening to true compassion.
The Daily Stoic: Timeless Wisdom on Character, Fortitude, Self-Control, and the Art of Living from Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius
“Meditate often on the interconnectedness and mutual interdependence of all things in the universe.”
10 Learnings from 10 Years of Brain Pickings
Fluid reflections on keeping a solid center.
Proust on Why We Read
“The end of a book’s wisdom appears to us as merely the start of our own, so that at the moment when the book has told us everything it can, it gives rise to the feeling that it has told us nothing.”
Nonstop Metropolis: An Atlas of Maps Reclaiming New York’s Untold Stories and Unseen Populations
“Each of us is an atlas of sorts, already knowing how to navigate some portion of the world, containing innumerable versions of place as experience and desire and fear, as route and landmark and memory.”
When the Sky Is No More Than Remembered Light: Mark Strand Reads His Poignant Poem “The End”
“Not every man knows what is waiting for him, or what he shall sing / when the ship he is on slips into darkness, there at the end.”
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