Search results for “optimism”
Polish Poet and Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska on Great Love
“Great love is never justified. It’s like the little tree that springs up in some inexplicable fashion on the side of a cliff: where are its roots, what does it feed on, what miracle produces those green leaves?”
How to Eat an Apricot: Diane Ackerman on Art, Science, and Wonder
“First warm its continuous curve in cupped hands, holding it as you might a brandy snifter, then caress the velvety sheen with one thumb, and run your fingertips over its nap…”
Singularity: Poet Marie Howe’s Beautiful Tribute to Stephen Hawking and Our Belonging to the Universe
“Do you sometimes want to wake up to the singularity we once were?”
Spontaneity and the Search for Meaning: Erich Fromm on the Wellspring of Individuality, Creativity, and Love
“Spontaneous activity is the one way in which man can overcome the terror of aloneness… for in the spontaneous realization of the self man unites himself anew with the world — with man, nature, and himself.”
Anna Deavere Smith on the Importance of Bringing Light to History’s Shadows and Resisting the Destructive Patterns Handed Down to Us by Our Invisible Pasts
“A beating — even a public beating — could happen without anyone so much as striking a blow.”
The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics Pioneer Norbert Wiener on Communication, Control, and the Morality of Our Machines
“We are not stuff that abides, but patterns that perpetuate themselves. A pattern is a message.”
The Universe in Verse: John Cameron Mitchell Reads Walt Whitman’s Beautiful Least Known Poem
A lyrical serenade to a world we barely dare imagine and to our kinship with those creatures most different from us.
Life, Loss, and the Wisdom of Rivers
“It’s a mercy that time runs in one direction only, that we see the past but darkly and the future not at all.”
Three Balls of Wool: An Illustrated Celebration of Nonconformity and the Courage to Remake Society’s Givens
A poignant and hope-giving allegory based on the true story of a refugee family.
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