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9 Learnings from 9 Years of Brain Pickings
Reflections on the rewards of seeking out what magnifies your spirit.
Pride, Prejudice, and the Provisions of Privilege: Margo Jefferson on Race, Depression, and How We Define Ourselves
“Privilege is provisional. Privilege can be denied, withheld, offered grudgingly and summarily withdrawn. Entitlement is impervious to the kinds of verbs that modify privilege.”
The Six Pillars of the Wholehearted Life: Parker Palmer’s Spectacular Naropa University Commencement Address
“Take everything that’s bright and beautiful in you and introduce it to the shadow side of yourself… When you are able to say, ‘I am … my shadow as well as my light,’ the shadow’s power is put in service of the good.”
Flannery O’Connor on Art, Integrity, and the Writer’s Responsibility to Their Talent
“Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.”
Beloved Composer Leonard Bernstein on the Importance of Believing in Each Other and How Art Fortifies Our Mutual Dignity
“We must learn to know ourselves better through art. We must rely more on the unconscious, inspirational side of man… We must believe, without fear, in people.”
How to Disagree: Amin Maalouf on the Key to Intelligent Dissent and Effective Criticism
“To approach someone else convincingly you must do so with open arms and head held high, and your arms can’t be open unless your head IS high.”
The Genes of the Soul: Amin Maalouf on Belonging, Conflict, and How We Inhabit Our Identity
“A person’s identity… is like a pattern drawn on a tightly stretched parchment. Touch just one part of it, just one allegiance, and the whole person will react, the whole drum will sound.”
The World We Live In: An Extraordinary Reality-Check
The chilling human story behind an almost-statistic.
An Experiment in Love: Martin Luther King, Jr. on the Six Pillars of Nonviolent Resistance and the Ancient Greek Notion of ‘Agape’
“Along the way of life, someone must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate. This can only be done by projecting the ethic of love to the center of our lives.”
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