Search results for “meaningful”
Carl Jung on How to Live and the Origin of “Do the Next Right Thing”
“There is no pit you cannot climb out of provided you make the right effort at the right place… do the next thing with diligence and devotion.”
The Gifted Listener: Composer Aaron Copland on Honing Your Talent for Listening to Music
“There are few pleasures in art greater than the secure sense that one can recognize beauty when one comes upon it… Recognizing the beautiful in an abstract art like music partakes somewhat of a minor miracle.”
Alain de Botton on How to Get Over Rejection and Heartbreak
A resaning antidote to one of the most dangerous and damaging romantic myths in our culture.
The Four Buddhist Mantras for Turning Fear into Love
“When you love someone, the best thing you can offer that person is your presence.”
Creativity in the Time of COVID: Zadie Smith on Writing, Love, and What Echoes Through the Hallway of Time Suddenly Emptied of Habit
“There is no great difference between novels and banana bread. They are both just something to do. They are no substitute for love… Love is not something to do, but… something to go through — that must be why it frightens so many of us and why we so often approach it indirectly.”
A Process for the Transfer of Energy and Feeling: George Saunders on the Key to Great Storytelling
“What a story is ‘about’ is to be found in the curiosity it creates in us, which is a form of caring.”
Richard Powers on the Most Important Attitude You Can Take Toward Your Life and the World
“This fluke, single, huge, cross-indexed, thermodynamic experiment of a story that the world has been inventing to tell itself at bedtime is still in embryo. It’s not even the outline of a synopsis of notes toward a rough draft yet.”
Wintering: Resilience, the Wisdom of Sadness, and How the Science of Trees Illuminates the Art of Self-Renewal Through Difficult Times
“Wintering… is the courage to stare down the worst parts of our experience and to commit to healing them the best we can. Wintering is a moment of intuition, our true needs felt keenly as a knife.”
Audre Lorde on Poetry as an Instrument of Change and Feeling as an Antidote to Fearing
“As they become known to and accepted by us, our feelings and the honest exploration of them become sanctuaries and spawning grounds for the most radical and daring of ideas… a safe-house for that difference so necessary to change.”
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