Reads tagged with “books”
The Work of Happiness: May Sarton’s Stunning Poem About Being at Home in Yourself
“What is happiness but growth in peace.”
Archives of Joy: Reflections on Animals and the Nature of Being
An invitation to “a certain, forgotten way of seeing the world” and an exultation at “earthly life, with its duration so short it obliges us to surpass ourselves.”
The Experience Machine: Cognitive Philosopher Andy Clark on the Power of Expectation and How the Mind Renders Reality
“We are never simply seeing what’s ‘really there,’ stripped bare of our own anticipations or insulated from our own past experiences. Instead, all human experience is part phantom — the product of deep-set predictions.”
Everything Is Already There: Javier Marías on the Courage to Heed Your Intuitions
“This has nothing to do with premonitions, there is nothing supernatural or mysterious about it, what’s mysterious is that we pay no heed to it.”
A Taste of How It Feels to Be Free: Pioneering Psychoanalyst Karen Horney on Our Inner Conflicts, the Psychology of Hopelessness, and the Path to Wholeness
“The most comprehensive formulation of therapeutic goals is the striving for wholeheartedness: to be without pretense, to be emotionally sincere, to be able to put the whole of oneself into one’s feelings, one’s work, one’s beliefs. It can be approximated only to the extent that conflicts are resolved.”
A Shelter in Time: John Berger on the Power of Music
“Songs are like rivers: each follows its own course, yet all flow to the sea, from which everything came.”
An Antidote to the Anxiety About Imperfection: Parenting Advice from Mister Rogers
“It’s part of being human to fall short of that total acceptance and ultimate understanding — and often far short.”
Between Matter and Spirit: Psychoanalyst Allen Wheelis on the Substance of What We Are
“We are carriers of spirit… into a future unknown, unknowable, and in continual creation.”
The Universe and the Soul: Richard Jefferies on Nature as Prayer for Presence
How to grow “absorbed into the being or existence of the universe.”
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