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Octavia Butler on Religion and the Spirituality of Symbiosis

“On many levels, we wind up being strengthened by what we join, or what joins us, as well as by what we combat.”

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From Heisenberg to Borges, How Human Nature Lenses the Nature of Reality

“What we are striving for lies inside us; we find ourselves in the world and the world in ourselves.”

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Octavia Butler’s Advice on Writing

“No matter how tired you get, no matter how you feel like you can’t possibly do this, somehow you do.”

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Leaning Toward Light: A Posy of Poems Celebrating the Joys and Consolations of the Garden

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Uses of the Erotic: Audre Lorde on the Relationship Between Eros, Creativity, and Power

“There is, for me, no difference between writing a good poem and moving into sunlight against the body of a woman I love.”

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17 Life-Learnings from 17 Years of The Marginalian

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Milan Kundera on Animal Rights and What True Human Goodness Really Means

“True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. Mankind’s true moral test, its fundamental test… consists of its attitude toward those who are at its mercy: animals.”

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Mars and Our Search for Meaning: A Planetary Scientist’s Love Letter to Life

“It is the search for infinity, the search for evidence that our capacious universe might hold life elsewhere, in a different place or at a different time or in a different form.”

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Spell Against Indifference: A Poem

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Excellent Advice for Living: Kevin Kelly’s Life-Tested Wisdom He Wished He Knew Earlier

“The chief prevention against getting old is to remain astonished.”

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Search results for “the well of being”

“On many levels, we wind up being strengthened by what we join, or what joins us, as well as by what we combat.”

“What we are striving for lies inside us; we find ourselves in the world and the world in ourselves.”

“No matter how tired you get, no matter how you feel like you can’t possibly do this, somehow you do.”

“There is, for me, no difference between writing a good poem and moving into sunlight against the body of a woman I love.”

“True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. Mankind’s true moral test, its fundamental test… consists of its attitude toward those who are at its mercy: animals.”

“It is the search for infinity, the search for evidence that our capacious universe might hold life elsewhere, in a different place or at a different time or in a different form.”

“The chief prevention against getting old is to remain astonished.”

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