Search results for “self compassion”
Jad Abumrad Reads an Ode to the Glory of Tiny Creatures and Celebrates His Mother’s Scientific Persistence
In praise of the invisible heroisms and unglamorous triumphs of nature and the human spirit.
Carl Sagan on the Power of Books and Reading as the Path to Democracy
“Books are key to understanding the world and participating in a democratic society.”
Florence Nightingale Visits a Mosque: The Founder of Modern Nursing on Women, Islam, and Religion’s Power Structures
“It was so pleasant to see a place where any man may go for a moment’s quiet, and there is none to find fault with him, nor make him afraid.”
The Topography of Tears: A Stunning Aerial Tour of the Landscape of Human Emotion Through an Optical Microscope
From Blake to biochemistry, “proof that we cannot put our feelings in one place and our thoughts in another.”
Trailblazing Astronomer Maria Mitchell on Science, Spirituality, and the Conquest of Truth
“Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.”
Ursula K. Le Guin on Anger
“Anger continued on past its usefulness becomes unjust, then dangerous… It fuels not positive activism but regression, obsession, vengeance, self-righteousness. Corrosive, it feeds off itself, destroying its host in the process.”
An Alternative View of Human Nature: Rebecca Solnit on Crisis as a Catalyst for Dignity, Agency, and Human Goodness
“The constellations of solidarity, altruism, and improvisation are within most of us and reappear at these times.”
When Things Fall Apart: Tibetan Buddhist Nun and Teacher Pema Chödrön on Transformation Through Difficult Times
“Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible be found in us.”
Albert Einstein on the Interconnectedness of Our Fates and Our Mightiest Counterforce Against Injustice
“There is [a] human right which is infrequently mentioned but which seems to be destined to become very important: this is the right, or the duty, of the individual to abstain from cooperating in activities which he considers wrong or pernicious.”
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