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Reclaiming Our Human Potential in the Age of Technological “Progress”
“People now use less than half their potential forces because ‘Progress’ has deprived them of the incentive to live fully.”
The Day Hermann Hesse Discovered the Meaning of Life in a Tree
“It was the great and eternal made visible: a confluence of opposites, their fusing together in the fire of reality. It meant nothing… or, rather, it meant everything… and it was beautiful, it was happiness and meaning… like an earful of Bach or an eyeful of Cézanne.”
Women in Trees: Sweet and Subversive Vintage Photographs of Defiant Delight
The chance-anthropology of a secret tribe.
The Twin Root of Our Confusion and Our Power in Times of Turmoil: Muriel Rukeyser on the Wellspring of Aliveness
“Whatever has happened, whatever is going to happen in the world, it is the living moment that contains the sum of the excitement, this moment in which we touch life and all the energy of the past and future.”
I Regard With Compassion, Therefore I Am: Descartes on How We Acquire Nobility of Soul and the Crucial Difference Between Confidence and Pride
“Pride … is always a serious fault, the seriousness of which is greater in proportion as the justification for one’s self-esteem is less.”
Emerson on How to Trust Yourself and What Solitude Really Means
“It is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”
The More Loving One: The Science of Entropy and the Art of Alternative Endings
“If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving one be me.”
The Good Luck of Your Bad Luck: Marcus Aurelius on the Stoic Strategy for Weathering Life’s Waves and Turning Suffering into Strength
“What happened could have happened to anyone, but not everyone could have carried on.”
The Sane Society: The Great Humanistic Philosopher and Psychologist Erich Fromm on How to Save Us From Ourselves
“The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we should be fully born, when we die.”
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