Reads tagged with “psychology”
The Third Self: Mary Oliver on Time, Concentration, the Artist’s Task, and the Central Commitment of the Creative Life
“The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.”
The Courage to Despair: Goethe, the Inner Tension of Creativity, and What It Takes to Be a Great Artist
“[The artist] must be shaken by the naked truths that will not be comforted. This divine discontent, this disequilibrium, this state of inner tension is the source of artistic energy.”
Broadcasters of the Self: Ian McEwan on Our Age of Identity and How the Politics of Modern Selfhood Imperils the Art of Listening
“When you make the self the outer limit of your politics, you then begin to ignore a great deal of the attitudes, situations, dilemmas, misery of others.”
James Gleick on How Our Cultural Fascination with Time Travel Illuminates Memory, the Nature of Time, and the Central Mystery of Human Consciousness
“Every moment alters what came before. We reach across layers of time for the memories of our memories.”
Virginia Woolf on the Nature of Memory and How It Threads Our Lives Together
“Memory is the seamstress, and a capricious one at that. Memory runs her needle in and out, up and down, hither and thither.”
The Trans-Sensory Transcendence of Music: Helen Keller’s Electrifying Letter About “Hearing” Beethoven’s Ode to Joy
“I felt the chorus grow more exultant, more ecstatic, upcurving swift and flame-like, until my heart almost stood still.”
Rilke on Writing and What It Takes to Be an Artist
“Go into yourself and test the deeps in which your life takes rise; at its source you will find the answer to the question whether you must create.”
The Power Paradox: The Surprising and Sobering Science of How We Gain and Lose Influence
“We rise in power and make a difference in the world due to what is best about human nature, but we fall from power due to what is worst.”
The Difficult Balance of Intimacy and Independence: Beloved Philosopher and Poet Kahlil Gibran on the Secret to a Loving and Lasting Relationship
“Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.”
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