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The Best of Brain Pickings 2017
The courage to be yourself, a Stoic’s antidote to anxiety, how friendship transforms us, in praise of solitude, and more.
How to Break Up Like a Poet: Edna St. Vincent Millay and the Art of the Kind, Clean Break
“I am most faithless when I most am true.”
When Things Fall Apart: Tibetan Buddhist Nun and Teacher Pema Chödrön on Transformation Through Difficult Times
“Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible be found in us.”
Sarah Jones Performs an Astonishing Chorus-of-Humanity Tribute to Jane Goodall
“What makes us human makes us fellow creatures, creeping things, fauna of a fragile terrestrial biosphere, neither more nor less. All lives are consequential.”
The Nothingness of Personality: Young Borges on the Self
“There is no whole self. It suffices to walk any distance along the inexorable rigidity that the mirrors of the past open to us in order to feel like outsiders, naively flustered by our own bygone days.”
Existential Psychologist Rollo May on Freedom and the Significance of the Pause
“Freedom is the capacity to pause in the face of stimuli from many directions at once and, in this pause, to throw one’s weight toward this response rather than that one.”
91-Year-Old Lebanese-American Poet, Philosopher, and Painter Etel Adnan on Memory, the Self, and the Universe
“The universe is itself the glue that keeps it going, therefore it is memory in action and in essence, in becoming and in being. Because it remembers itself, it exists. Because it exists, it remembers.”
Legendary Cosmologist Martin Rees on Science, Religion, and the Future of Post-Human Intelligence
“Fundamental physics shows how hard it is for us to grasp even the simplest things in the world. That makes you quite skeptical whenever someone declares he has the key to some deeper reality.”
Hourglass: Dani Shapiro on Time, Memory, Marriage, and What Makes Us Who We Are
“Change even one moment, the whole thing unravels… There is no other life than this. You would not have stumbled into the vastly imperfect, beautiful, impossible present.”
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