Reads tagged with “psychology”
Marcus Aurelius on How to Begin Each Day: The Stoic Recipe for Unassailable Sanity and Inner Peace
A perspective-shifting lens for your exasperating daily interactions with unpleasant people.
Anam Cara and the Essence of True Friendship: Poet and Philosopher John O’Donohue on the Beautiful Ancient Celtic Notion of Soul-Friend
“A friend… awakens your life in order to free the wild possibilities within you.”
Leisure, the Basis of Culture: An Obscure German Philosopher’s Timely 1948 Manifesto for Reclaiming Our Human Dignity in a Culture of Workaholism
“Leisure lives on affirmation. It is not the same as the absence of activity … or even as an inner quiet. It is rather like the stillness in the conversation of lovers, which is fed by their oneness.”
Nobel Laureate André Gide on What It Really Means to Be Original and Goethe’s Paradoxical Model of Creativity
“If one does not absorb everything, one loses oneself completely. The mind must be greater than the world and contain it…”
Hunter S. Thompson on Violence, Vengeance, and the Only True Fix for Our Destructive Impulses
“One of the most important things is to recognize that we do have this mounting violence in us, and then to find the reasons.”
Sylvia Plath’s First Job: How the Beloved Poet’s Formative Experience as a Farm Worker Shaped Her Writing
“Farm work is one of the best jobs for getting to know people as they really are.”
Design and Violence: An Intelligent Invitation to Nuanced Discourse in a Culture of Black-and-White Binaries
Pause-giving meditations by William Gibson, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Rob Walker, and more.
The Six Pillars of the Wholehearted Life: Parker Palmer’s Spectacular Naropa University Commencement Address
“Take everything that’s bright and beautiful in you and introduce it to the shadow side of yourself… When you are able to say, ‘I am … my shadow as well as my light,’ the shadow’s power is put in service of the good.”
Behind the Trees: Neil Gaiman’s Philosophical Dream, Animated
A weird and wonderful journey into the woodland of the subconscious.
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