Reads by Maria Popova
Seneca on True and False Friendship
“Ponder for a long time whether you shall admit a given person to your friendship; but when you have decided to admit him, welcome him with all your heart and soul.”
The Fascinating Science of How We Think Not with the Brain But with the World
“By reaching beyond the brain… we are able to focus more intently, comprehend more deeply, and create more imaginatively — to entertain ideas that would be literally unthinkable by the brain alone.”
A Beginning, Not a Decline: Colette on the Splendor of Autumn and the Autumn of Life
In praise of “the gaiety of those who have nothing more to lose and so excel at giving.”
Why Leaves Change Color and How We Become Who We Are: The Science of Chlorophyll and the Poetics of Personhood
“We reach forth and strain every nerve, but we seize only a bit of the curtain that hides the infinite from us.”
Albert Camus on the Source of Strength and How to Save Our Sanity in Trying Times
“In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
The Moving Story of the Dawn Redwood: How a Fossil Came Back to Life to Bring Humanity Together in the Middle of Our Deadliest War
How an ancient survivor of the unsurvivable became a triumph of the human spirit in a divided world.
How to Be a Good Explorer on the Lifelong Expedition to Yourself
The Day Dostoyevsky Discovered the Meaning of Life in a Dream
“And it is so simple… You will instantly find how to live.”
The Unspeakable World: Alan Watts on How to Touch the Pulse of Life
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