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James Baldwin on Resisting the Mindless Majority, Not Running from Uncomfortable Realities, and What It Really Means to Grow Up
“We ought to try, by the example of our own lives, to prove that life is love and wonder and that that nation is doomed which penalizes those of its citizens who recognize and rejoice in this fact.”
William James on Consciousness and the Four Features of Transcendent Experiences
“Our normal waking consciousness… is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different… No account of the universe in its totality can be final which leaves these other forms of consciousness quite disregarded.”
Walt Whitman’s Advice to the Young on the Building Blocks of Character and What It Takes to Be an Agent of Change
“Go, dear friend, if need be give up all else, and commence to-day to inure yourself to pluck, reality, self-esteem, definiteness, elevatedness…”
An Axiom of Feeling: Werner Herzog on the Absolute, the Sublime, and Ecstatic Truth
“The soul of the listener or the spectator… actualizes truth through the experience of sublimity: that is, it completes an independent act of creation.”
A Placid Ecstasy: Walt Whitman’s Most Direct Reflection on Happiness
“What is happiness, anyhow? … so impalpable — a mere breath, an evanescent tinge…”
How to Change Your Mind: Michael Pollan on How the Science of Psychedelics Illuminates Consciousness, Mortality, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
“The Beyond, whatever it consists of, might not be nearly as far away or inaccessible as we think.”
Egon Schiele on What It Means to Be an Artist and Why Visionaries Always Come from the Minority
“Envy those who see beauty in everything in the world.”
Three Balls of Wool: An Illustrated Celebration of Nonconformity and the Courage to Remake Society’s Givens
A poignant and hope-giving allegory based on the true story of a refugee family.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning on Happiness as a Moral Obligation
“It is well to fly towards the light, even where there may be some fluttering and bruising of wings against the windowpanes, is it not?”
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