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Poet and Philosopher David Whyte on Fulfillment Beyond the Limiting Notion of Work/Life Balance
“We are each a river with a particular abiding character, but we show radically different aspects of our self according to the territory through which we travel.”
How Steinbeck Used the Diary as a Tool of Discipline, a Hedge Against Self-Doubt, and a Pacemaker for the Heartbeat of Creative Work
“Just set one day’s work in front of the last day’s work. That’s the way it comes out. And that’s the only way it does.”
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.”
Why We Lost Leisure: David Steindl-Rast on Purposeful Work, Play, and How to Find Meaning in the Magnificent Superfluities of Life
“A piece of music doesn’t come to an end when its purpose is accomplished. It has no purpose, strictly speaking. It is the playful unfolding of meaning.”
2014’s Best Books on Psychology, Philosophy, and How to Live Meaningfully
How to be alone, wake up from illusion, master the art of asking, fathom your place in the universe, and more.
The Unlikely Roads That Lead Us Back to Ourselves: Eve Ensler on How a Tree Saved Her Life
An emboldening story of reawakening to the “insane delight” of merely being.
The Best LGBT Children’s Books: A Sweet and Assuring Celebration of Diversity and Difference
From Maurice Sendak to the real-life story of a gay penguin family, by way of grandmothers and kings.
The Quiet Book: An Illustrated Love Letter to Life’s Meaningful Pauses
A sweet celebration of the nuanced stillnesses that comprise aliveness.
On “Beauty”: Marilynne Robinson on Writing, What Storytelling Can Learn from Science, and the Splendors of Uncertainty
“We are part of a mystery, a splendid mystery within which we must attempt to orient ourselves if we are to have a sense of our own nature.”
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