Reads tagged with “philosophy”
How to Love the World More: George Saunders on the Courage of Uncertainty
“In a world full of people who seem to know everything, passionately, based on little (often slanted) information, where certainty is often mistaken for power, what a relief it is to be in the company of someone confident enough to stay unsure (that is, perpetually curious).”
The Broadest Portal to Joy
“Despite every single lie to the contrary, despite every single action born of that lie — we are in the midst of rhizomatic care that extends in every direction, spatially, temporally, spiritually.”
The Remedy for Creative Block and Existential Stuckness
“Faithfulness to the moment and to the present circumstance entails continuous surrender… Only unconditional surrender leads to real emptiness, and from that place of emptiness I can be prolific and free.”
An Introvert’s Field Guide to Friendship: Thoreau on the Challenges and Rewards of Candid Connection
“We only need to be as true to others as we are to ourselves that there may be ground enough for friendship.”
In Praise of Being Wrong: Lewis Thomas on the Value of Generative Mistakes
In praise of our “property of error, spontaneous, uncontrolled, and rich in possibilities.”
Jealousy and Its Antidote: Pioneering Psychiatrist Leslie Farber on the Tangled Psychology of Our Most Destructive Emotion
“Every jealous person knows jealousy to be a brutally degrading experience and resists with all his might revealing the extent of his degradation.”
From Youth to Age: Kahlil Gibran on the Art of Becoming Yourself
A roadmap to the fulfilled belonging on the other side of “the great aloneness which knows not what is far and what is near, nor what is small nor great.”
Coleridge on the Paradox of Friendship and Romantic Love
On sympathy, reciprocity, and satisfying the fulness of our nature.
From Cells to Souls: The Poetic Science of How the Brain Became
The making of our densely networked crucible of thought and tenderness.
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