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The Faith of the “Naturist”: John Burroughs’s Superb Century-Old Manifesto for Spirituality in the Age of Science
“Communing with God is communing with our own hearts, our own best selves, not with something foreign and accidental. Saints and devotees have gone into the wilderness to find God; of course they took God with them.”
Sylvia Plath on Living with the Darkness and Making Art from the Barely Bearable Lightness of Being
“One has to shut off that nagging part of the mind and go on without it with bravo and philosophy.”
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.”
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.”
Mathematician Lillian Lieber on Infinity, Art, Science, the Meaning of Freedom, and What It Takes to Be a Finite But Complete Human Being
Mathematics and poetry converge in an ode to the “sweet reasonableness” at the heart of a psychologically balanced character.
José Ortega y Gasset on the True Meaning and Measure of Intelligence
“Intelligence asserts itself above all not in art, nor in science, but in intuition of life.”
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.”
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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