Search results for “Grief”
The Five Invitations: What Thousands of People’s Deathbed Reflections Reveal About the Building Blocks of a Life Worth Living
“The sort of fearless openness required to turn toward our suffering is only possible within the spacious receptivity of love.”
The Haunted Mind: Nathaniel Hawthorne on the Edges of Consciousness Illuminate Time and Eternity
“Yesterday has already vanished among the shadows of the past; to-morrow has not yet emerged from the future. You have found an intermediate space… a spot where Father Time, when he thinks nobody is watching him, sits down by the way side to take breath.”
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.”
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.”
Jeanette Winterson on How Art and Storytelling Redeem Our Inner Lives
“Creative work bridges time because the energy of art is not time-bound… This makes our own death bearable.”
Gauguin’s Stirring First-Hand Account of What Actually Happened the Night Van Gogh Cut off His Own Ear
“Between two such beings as he and I, the one a perfect volcano, the other boiling too, inwardly, a sort of struggle was preparing.”
How Bach Will Save Your Soul: German Philosopher Josef Pieper on the Hidden Source of Music’s Supreme Power
“Music opens a path into the realm of silence.”
How to Live with Death
Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips on how Darwin and Freud reframed our mortality as an organizing principle of human life.
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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