Reads tagged with “philosophy”
Descartes on Wonderment
“Wonderment is the first passion of all… Those without any natural inclination to this passion are ordinarily very ignorant.”
Between Sinew and Spirit: Are You a Body with a Mind or a Mind with a Body?
An animated journey to the center of the self.
The Five Invitations: What Thousands of People’s Deathbed Reflections Reveal About the Building Blocks of a Life Worth Living
“The sort of fearless openness required to turn toward our suffering is only possible within the spacious receptivity of love.”
Having It Out with Melancholy: Amanda Palmer Reads Jane Kenyon’s Stunning Poem About Living to the Other Side of Depression
“What hurt me so terribly all my life until this moment?”
The Search for a New Humility: Václav Havel on Reclaiming Our Human Interconnectedness in a Globalized Yet Divided World
“Our respect for other people… can only grow from a humble respect for the cosmic order and from an awareness that we are a part of it… and that nothing of what we do is lost, but rather becomes part of the eternal memory of being.”
Walt Whitman on Beethoven and Music as the Profoundest Expression of Nature
In praise of the “dainty abandon” that awakens us to wonder and carries us outside ourselves.
An Alternative View of Human Nature: Rebecca Solnit on Crisis as a Catalyst for Dignity, Agency, and Human Goodness
“The constellations of solidarity, altruism, and improvisation are within most of us and reappear at these times.”
Poetry and the Revolution of Being: Jane Hirshfield on How Great Art Transforms Us
“Why ask art into a life at all, if not to be transformed and enlarged by its presence and mysterious means?… And by changing selves, one by one, art changes also the outer world that selves create and share.”
The Courage to Be Yourself: E.E. Cummings on Art, Life, and Being Unafraid to Feel
“To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight.”
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