Reads by Maria Popova

Kamau & ZuZu Find a Way: A Tender Lunar Fable about the Stubborn Courage of Making the Impossible Possible

“But we will have to find a way to live, as people do.”

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You and the Universe: N.J. Berrill’s Poetic 1958 Masterpiece of Cosmic Perspective

“The universe is as we find it and as we discover it within ourselves.”

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Winnicott on the Qualities of a Healthy Mind and a Healthy Relationship

“A sign of health in the mind is the ability of one individual to enter imaginatively and yet accurately into the thoughts and feelings and hopes and fears of another person; also to allow the other person to do the same to us.”

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Turning to Stone: A Geologist’s Love Letter to the Wisdom of Rocks

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Batter My Heart: Love, the Divine Within, and How Not to Break Your Own Heart

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How to Wait Better: The Psychology of Missing and Withstanding Absence

On “the capacity to bear frustration without turning against one’s needy self, or against the person one needs.”

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Honing Life on the Edges of the Possible: Geologist Turned Psychoanalyst Ruth Allen on Boundaries and Limits as Frontiers of Transformation and Growth

“At almost every conceivable level of our imagining, it is impossible to create a change without a discontinuity, without a moment of not knowing who we are, or what we are going to become. Rupture precedes revolution.”

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How Evolution Invented Faith: The Patience of the Penguin and the Art of Withstanding Abandonment

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We Go to the Park: A Soulful Illustrated Meditation on Our Search for Meaning

“Sometimes it feels as if all of life is made up of longing.”

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Of Stars, Seagulls, and Love: Loren Eiseley on the First and Final Truth of Life

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Reads by Maria Popova

“But we will have to find a way to live, as people do.”

“The universe is as we find it and as we discover it within ourselves.”

“A sign of health in the mind is the ability of one individual to enter imaginatively and yet accurately into the thoughts and feelings and hopes and fears of another person; also to allow the other person to do the same to us.”

On “the capacity to bear frustration without turning against one’s needy self, or against the person one needs.”

“At almost every conceivable level of our imagining, it is impossible to create a change without a discontinuity, without a moment of not knowing who we are, or what we are going to become. Rupture precedes revolution.”

“Sometimes it feels as if all of life is made up of longing.”

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