Reads tagged with “philosophy”
The Soul-Expanding Value of Difficulty: Rilke on How Great Sadnesses Transform Us and Bring Us Closer to Ourselves
“That is at bottom the only courage that is demanded of us: to have courage for the most strange, the most singular and the most inexplicable that we may encounter.”
Walter Benjamin on Finding Wisdom in the Age of Information and Storytelling as the Antidote to Death by News
“The value of information does not survive the moment in which it was new. It lives only at that moment; it has to surrender to it completely and explain itself to it without losing any time. A story is different. It does not expend itself. It preserves and concentrates its strength and is capable of releasing it even after a long time.”
Annie Dillard on How to Live with Mystery, the Two Ways of Looking, and the Secret of Seeing
“I cannot cause light; the most I can do is try to put myself in the path of its beam.”
The Well of Being: An Extraordinary Children’s Book for Grownups about the Art of Living with Openhearted Immediacy
A lyrical invitation to awaken from the trance of the limiting stories we tell ourselves and just live.
This Idea Must Die: Some of the World’s Greatest Thinkers Each Select a Major Misconception Holding Us Back
From the self to left brain vs. right brain to romantic love, a catalog of broken theories that hold us back from the conquest of Truth.
The Unlikely Roads That Lead Us Back to Ourselves: Eve Ensler on How a Tree Saved Her Life
An emboldening story of reawakening to the “insane delight” of merely being.
Crowds and Power: Nobel Laureate Elias Canetti on the Four Attributes of Crowds and the Paradox of Why We Join Them
“Direction is essential for the continuing existence of the crowd… A crowd exists so long as it has an unattained goal.”
Rilke on Our Fear of the Unexplainable
“Fear of the unexplainable has not only impoverished our inner lives, but also diminished relations between people.”
What Comes After Religion: The Search for Meaning in Secular Life
“We need reminders to be good, places to reawaken awe, something to reawaken our kinder, less selfish impulses…”
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