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Einstein, Anne Lamott, and Steve Jobs on Intuition vs. Rationality
What the libraries of yore have to do with today’s information economy and the heart’s will.
Nick Cave on Creative Work as an Instrument of Self-Forgiveness and the Necessity of Hope in a Fragile World
In praise of “the necessary and urgent need to love life and one another, despite the casual cruelty of the world.”
Italo Calvino on the Parallels Between Reading and Sex
“Lovers’ reading of each other’s bodies… differs from the reading of written pages in that it is not linear… What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other most is that within both of them times and spaces open, different from measurable time and space.”
The Gospel of James Baldwin: Musician Meshell Ndegeocello Rekindles the Fire of Truth for This Time
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
Poet and Philosopher David Whyte’s Gorgeous Letter to Children About Reading, Amazement, and the Exhilaration of Discovering the Undiscovered
A celebration of the delicious enchantment of the very first time.
How People Change: Psychoanalyst Allen Wheelis on the Essence of Freedom and the Two Elements of Self-Transcendence
“We create ourselves. The sequence is suffering, insight, will, action, change.”
The Grandmother, the Mermaid, and the Soul: Poet Elizabeth Alexander on How Literature Widens the Portal of the Possible
How a poem made a life and a life a poem.
Mass, Energy, and How Literature Transforms the Dead Weight of Being: Jeanette Winterson on Why We Read
“Books read us back to ourselves… The escape into another story reminds us that we too are another story. Not caught, not confined, not predestined.”
John Lewis on Love, Forgiveness, and the Seedbed of Personal Strength
“Anchor the eternity of love in your own soul… Lean toward the whispers of your own heart… Release the need to hate, to harbor division, and the enticement of revenge… But when it is your time don’t be afraid to stand up, speak up, and speak out against injustice.”
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