Search results for “Adrienne Rich”
Louis I, King of the Sheep: An Illustrated Parable of How Power Changes Those in Power
A subtle reminder that we are separated from those less fortunate than us by little more than unmerited cosmic odds.
Alice Walker on What Her Father Taught Her About Lying and the Love-Expanding Capacity of Telling the Truth
Why telling the truth is a supreme act of love and the most powerful antidote to violence.
Michael Faraday on Mental Discipline and How to Cure Our Propensity for Self-Deception
“That point of self-education which consists in teaching the mind to resist its desires and inclinations, until they are proved to be right, is the most important of all.”
The Divine Within: Aldous Huxley on Mind-Body Integration and How We Become Who We Are
“In all the activities of life, from the simplest physical activities to the highest intellectual and spiritual activities, our whole effort must be to get out of our own light.”
The Subterranean River of Emotion: Cheryl Strayed on Writing, the Art of Living with Opposing Truths, and the Three Ancient Motifs in All Great Storytelling
“When you’re speaking in the truest, most intimate voice about your life, you are speaking with the universal voice.”
Stress and the Social Self: How Relationships Affect Our Immune System
“We are all tethered to our social worlds by invisible but steel strong wires.”
Why We Fall in Love: The Paradoxical Psychology of Romance and Why Frustration Is Necessary for Satisfaction
“All love stories are frustration stories… To fall in love is to be reminded of a frustration that you didn’t know you had.”
Poet Robert Graves on What Love Really Means
“Love is really a recognition of truth, a recognition of another person’s integrity and truth in a way that… makes both of you light up when you recognize the quality in the other.”
The Aesthetic of Silence: Susan Sontag on Art as a Form of Spirituality and the Paradoxical Role of Silence in Creative Culture
“The art of our time is noisy with appeals for silence. A coquettish, even cheerful nihilism. One recognizes the imperative of silence, but goes on speaking anyway.”
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