Reads tagged with “psychology”
Jack Kerouac on How to Meditate
An intoxicating homage to the ancient practice that milks the brain’s “good glad fluid.”
Pioneering Early-Twentieth-Century Artist and Creative Entrepreneur Wanda Gág on Our Two Selves and How Love Lays Its Claim on Us
“There is nothing better for us to do than to take ourselves as we find ourselves and make the best of ourselves.”
The Soul-Expanding Value of Difficulty: Rilke on How Great Sadnesses Transform Us and Bring Us Closer to Ourselves
“That is at bottom the only courage that is demanded of us: to have courage for the most strange, the most singular and the most inexplicable that we may encounter.”
Walter Benjamin on Finding Wisdom in the Age of Information and Storytelling as the Antidote to Death by News
“The value of information does not survive the moment in which it was new. It lives only at that moment; it has to surrender to it completely and explain itself to it without losing any time. A story is different. It does not expend itself. It preserves and concentrates its strength and is capable of releasing it even after a long time.”
Kafka’s Remarkable Letter to His Abusive and Narcissistic Father
“It is, after all, not necessary to fly right into the middle of the sun, but it is necessary to crawl to a clean little spot on earth where the sun sometimes shines and one can warm oneself a little.”
Radiant Fatherhood: A Playful and Profound 1925 Meditation on Gender Stereotypes and the Rewards of Parenting
“It is our knowledge — the things we are sure of — that makes the world go wrong and keeps us from seeing and learning.”
Poet and Philosopher David Whyte on Fulfillment Beyond the Limiting Notion of Work/Life Balance
“We are each a river with a particular abiding character, but we show radically different aspects of our self according to the territory through which we travel.”
The Unlikely Roads That Lead Us Back to Ourselves: Eve Ensler on How a Tree Saved Her Life
An emboldening story of reawakening to the “insane delight” of merely being.
Crowds and Power: Nobel Laureate Elias Canetti on the Four Attributes of Crowds and the Paradox of Why We Join Them
“Direction is essential for the continuing existence of the crowd… A crowd exists so long as it has an unattained goal.”
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