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The Best of Brain Pickings 2014
The psychology of the perfect daily routine, how to criticize with kindness, the creative purpose of boredom, Kafka on what books do for the soul, and more.
Why We Lost Leisure: David Steindl-Rast on Purposeful Work, Play, and How to Find Meaning in the Magnificent Superfluities of Life
“A piece of music doesn’t come to an end when its purpose is accomplished. It has no purpose, strictly speaking. It is the playful unfolding of meaning.”
On “Beauty”: Marilynne Robinson on Writing, What Storytelling Can Learn from Science, and the Splendors of Uncertainty
“We are part of a mystery, a splendid mystery within which we must attempt to orient ourselves if we are to have a sense of our own nature.”
Our Fraught Relationship with Time, in Clever Minimalist Illustrations
A witty visual meditation on our comical control strategies, the predictability of modern life, and our constant tussle with productivity and presence.
Leonard Cohen and the Art of Stillness: Pico Iyer on What the Monastic Musician Taught Him About Presence
“Going nowhere … isn’t about turning your back on the world; it’s about stepping away now and then so that you can see the world more clearly and love it more deeply.”
The Definitive Reading List of the 14 Best Books of 2014 Overall
From the origin of the universe to the unusual stories behind people’s tattoos, by way of secular spirituality, the hummingbird effect, and Werner Herzog.
At What Point Are You Actually Dead?
The science of why you can’t resurrect a dead body but might be able to, sort of, in the future.
The Art of Quickness: Italo Calvino on Digression as a Hedge Against Death and the Key to Great Writing
“Success consists in felicity of verbal expression, which every so often may result from a quick flash of inspiration but as a rule involves a patient search… for the sentence in which every word is unalterable.”
2014’s Best Books on Psychology, Philosophy, and How to Live Meaningfully
How to be alone, wake up from illusion, master the art of asking, fathom your place in the universe, and more.
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