Search results for “The art of looking”
The Magic of Moss and What It Teaches Us About the Art of Attentiveness to Life at All Scales
“Life [exists] only because of a myriad of synchronicities that bring us to this particular place at this particular moment. In return for such a gift, the only sane response is to glitter in reply.”
The Road to Character: David Brooks on the Art of Stumbling, “Résumé Virtues” vs. “Eulogy Virtues,” and the Humility Code of Living a Meaningful Life
“We are all stumblers, and the beauty and meaning of life are in the stumbling.”
Creative Courage for Young Hearts: 15 Emboldening Picture Books Celebrating the Lives of Great Artists, Writers, and Scientists
Jane Goodall, Julia Child, Pablo Neruda, Marie Curie, E.E. Cummings, Albert Einstein, Ella Fitzgerald, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Frida Kahlo, and more.
Annie Dillard on How to Live with Mystery, the Two Ways of Looking, and the Secret of Seeing
“I cannot cause light; the most I can do is try to put myself in the path of its beam.”
How to Listen Between the Lines: Anna Deavere Smith on the Art of Listening in a Culture of Speaking
“Some people use language as a mask. And some want to create designed language that appears to reveal them but does not.”
Turning Trauma into Power: Marina Abramović on How Her Harrowing Childhood Became the Raw Material for Her Art
“You know you are an artist if you have to do art — it’s like breathing and you have no choice. Nothing should be able to stop you.”
In Defense of the Wandering Heart: How Crushes Fortify Your Primary Relationship
“The marriages that last are the ones in which the two members regularly develop (but do not act upon) extramarital infatuations.”
How to Love: Legendary Zen Buddhist Teacher Thich Nhat Hanh on Mastering the Art of “Interbeing”
“To love without knowing how to love wounds the person we love.”
Robert Walser, the Art of Walking, and Our Daily Dance of Posturing and Sincerity
“It is not with pleasures and with joys that a man grows proud. Proud and gay in the roots of his soul he becomes only through trial bravely undergone.”
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