Search results for “get out of your own light”
A Small Dark Light: Ursula K. Le Guin on the Legacy of the Tao Te Ching and What It Continues to Teach Us About Personal and Political Power 2,500 Years Later
“It is the profound modesty of the language that offers what so many people for so many centuries have found in this book: a pure apprehension of the mystery of which we are part.”
Virginia Woolf on the Nature of Memory and How It Threads Our Lives Together
“Memory is the seamstress, and a capricious one at that. Memory runs her needle in and out, up and down, hither and thither.”
Life on a Möbius Strip: The Greatest Moth Story Ever Told, About the Unlikely Paths That Lead Us Back to Ourselves
“…a living testament to the incredibly improbable trip that we’re on.”
Mental Health, Free Will, and Your Microbiome
“We are legion, each and every one of us. Always a ‘we’ and never a ‘me.’”
Trust Yourself: Emerson on Self-Reliance as the Essence of Genius and What It Means to Be a Nonconformist
“Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.”
The Trans-Sensory Transcendence of Music: Helen Keller’s Electrifying Letter About “Hearing” Beethoven’s Ode to Joy
“I felt the chorus grow more exultant, more ecstatic, upcurving swift and flame-like, until my heart almost stood still.”
Young Barack Obama on What His Mother Taught Him About Love
“Perhaps that’s how any love begins, impulses and cloudy images that allow us to break across our solitude, and then, if we’re lucky, are finally transformed into something firmer.”
James Gleick on Our Anxiety About Time, the Origin of the Term “Type A,” and the Curious Psychology of Elevator Impatience
“We have reached the epoch of the nanosecond… That is our condition, a culmination of millennia of evolution in human societies, technologies, and habits of mind.”
How Do You Measure Your Life: Artist Carrie Mae Weems’s Stirring SVA Commencement Address
“Open and alert, you respond sensitively to the world around you, and it causes you a great deal of pain and tremendous trepidation. But, of course, these are the natural byproducts of a closely examined life.”
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