Reads tagged with “philosophy”
Storytelling and the Art of Tenderness: Olga Tokarczuk’s Magnificent Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
“Tenderness is the most modest form of love. It is the kind of love that does not appear in the scriptures or the gospels, no one swears by it, no one cites it… It appears wherever we take a close and careful look at another being, at something that is not our ‘self.’”
How to Be a Swimmer in the Stream of Time: Poet, Painter, and Philosopher Etel Adnan on the Antidote to Disorientation and Isolation
“The definition of the soul is made of these places where you feel that the world came into being so that they could exist.”
Repentance, Repair, and What True Forgiveness Takes: Lessons from Maimonides for the Modern World
“Sometimes we are hurt. Sometimes we hurt others, whether intentionally or not. The path of repentance is one that can help us not only to repair what we have broken, to the fullest extent possible, but to grow in the process of doing so.”
C.S. Lewis on Our Task in Troubled Times
“Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future… The present is the only time in which any duty can be done or any grace received.”
How to Cherish Your Human Condition: The Poetic Naturalist Loren Eiseley on the Meaning of Life
“The truth is that we are all potential fossils still carrying within our bodies the crudities of former existences, the marks of a world in which living creatures flow with little more consistency than clouds from age to age.”
The Log from the Sea of Cortez: John Steinbeck’s Forgotten Masterpiece on How to Think and the Art of Seeing the Pattern Beyond the Particular
“Everything impinges on everything else… Everything is potentially everywhere.”
How to Be Un-Dead: Anaïs Nin and D.H. Lawrence on the Key to Living Fully
“Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.”
16 Life-Learnings from 16 Years of The Marginalian
Reflections on keeping the soul intact and alive and worthy of itself.
James Baldwin on Reconciling Acceptance and Action
Notes on the change that begins in the heart.
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