Reads tagged with “philosophy”
Sam Harris on the Paradox of Meditation and How to Stretch Our Capacity for Everyday Self-Transcendence
“Positive emotions, such as compassion and patience, are teachable skills; and the way we think directly influences our experience of the world.”
The Art of Timing: Alan Watts on the Perils of Hurrying and the Pleasures of Presence
“For the perfect accomplishment of any art, you must get this feeling of the eternal present into your bones — for it is the secret of proper timing.”
Sherwin Nuland on the Art of Dying and How Our Mortality Confers Meaning Upon Our Lives
“The greatest dignity to be found in death is the dignity of the life that preceded it.”
Neuroscientist Sam Harris on Happiness, Spirituality Without Religion, and How to Cultivate the Art of Presence
“Our world is dangerously riven by religious doctrines that all educated people should condemn, and yet there is more to understanding the human condition than science and secular culture generally admit.”
Wisdom in the Age of Information and the Importance of Storytelling in Making Sense of the World: An Animated Essay
Thoughts on navigating the open sea of knowledge.
Too-ticky’s Guide to Life: Wisdom on Uncertainty, Presence, and Self-Reliance from Beloved Children’s Book Author Tove Jansson
“All things are so very uncertain, and that’s exactly what makes me feel reassured.”
A Life Worth Living: Albert Camus on Our Search for Meaning and Why Happiness Is Our Moral Obligation
Why “the demand for happiness and the patient quest for it” isn’t a luxury or a mere need but our existential duty.
The Life of the Mind: Hannah Arendt on Thinking vs. Knowing and the Crucial Difference Between Truth and Meaning
“To lose the appetite for meaning we call thinking and cease to ask unanswerable questions [would be to] lose not only the ability to produce those thought-things that we call works of art but also the capacity to ask all the answerable questions upon which every civilization is founded.”
Jeff Buckley on Music and Life: A Rare Interview with a Rare Soul
“Be awake enough to see where you are at any given time and how that is beautiful and has poetry inside.”
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