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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.”
Reason and Emotion: Scottish Philosopher John Macmurray on the Key to Wholeness and the Fundaments of a Fulfilling Life
“The emotional life is not simply a part or an aspect of human life. It is not, as we so often think, subordinate, or subsidiary to the mind. It is the core and essence of human life. The intellect arises out of it, is rooted in it, draws its nourishment and sustenance from it.”
The Universe and the Soul: Richard Jefferies on Nature as Prayer for Presence
How to grow “absorbed into the being or existence of the universe.”
Favorite Books of 2022
From Rumi to Blake to Nick Cave, by way of trees, hummingbirds, grief, and music.
Highlights in Hindsight: Favorite Books of the Past Year
Trees, hummingbirds, snails, Stoicism, storytelling, Orwell’s roses, the crucible of consciousness, the end of the universe, and more trees.
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 Experience Machine: Cognitive Philosopher Andy Clark on the Power of Expectation and How the Mind Renders Reality
“We are never simply seeing what’s ‘really there,’ stripped bare of our own anticipations or insulated from our own past experiences. Instead, all human experience is part phantom — the product of deep-set predictions.”
In Search of the Sacred: Pico Iyer on Our Models of Paradise
“The thought that we must die… is the reason we must live well.”
Nature and Creativity: The Science of “Soft Fascination” and How the Natural World Presses the Reset Button of the Brain’s Default Mode Network
“Our everyday experience does not prepare us to assimilate the gaping hugeness of the Grand Canyon or the crashing grandeur of Niagara Falls. We have no response at the ready; our usual frames of reference don’t fit.”
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