“Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real.” | Continue reading
“Let them not say: we did not see it. We saw.” | Continue reading
“It has no shape but can take any shape… You can touch it, but you cannot hold it… It can slip through your fingers, like it’s nothing at all. But life would be unthinkable … | Continue reading
Life-tested wisdom on how to live from James Baldwin, Ursula K. Le Guin, Leo Tolstoy, Seneca, Toni Morrison, Walt Whitman, Viktor Frankl, Rachel Carson, and Hannah Arendt. | Continue reading
“Also: This is it.” | Continue reading
From the Stoics to the snails, by way of music, matter, and the mind. | Continue reading
“A great deal of our onslaught on Mother Nature is not really lack of intelligence but a lack of compassion… True wisdom requires both thinking with our head and understanding with our … | Continue reading
“How is it that I seem to be this Margaret Fuller? What does it mean? What shall I do about it?” | Continue reading
“Ultimately, we are puppets of both pain and pleasure, occasionally made free by our creativity.” | Continue reading
“Productivity is a trap. Becoming more efficient just makes you more rushed, and trying to clear the decks simply makes them fill up again faster… Since finitude defines our lives… livi… | Continue reading
From the river to the Milky Way, by way of trees, geese, and unsung heroes. | Continue reading
An uncommonly original and tenderhearted celebration of how an artist becomes an artist. | Continue reading
“Perhaps dreams are an arena that can enable supracognitive powers to perform calculations and perceptions of reality that may be incomprehensible in our wake state.” | Continue reading
“Our first questions about the value of a book, of a human being, or a musical composition are: Can they walk? Even more, can they dance?” | Continue reading
Two of humanity’s greatest minds explore the parallels between spacetime and psyche, the atomic nucleus and the self. | Continue reading
“What is it that makes it possible to do the work that is of highest value to others and one’s central purpose in life? It may appear — to others, sometimes even to oneself — trivial, irrelev… | Continue reading
“There is no pit you cannot climb out of provided you make the right effort at the right place… do the next thing with diligence and devotion.” | Continue reading
Uncommon consolation from the body to the soul. | Continue reading
“Who we are and who we become depends, in part, on whom we love.” | Continue reading
“Eons must have lapsed before the human eye grew keen enough and the human soul large enough to give sympathetic comprehension to the beauty of bare branches laced across changing skies.̶… | Continue reading
“We are not stuff that abides, but patterns that perpetuate themselves. A pattern is a message.” | Continue reading
“If I had to live my life again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.” | Continue reading
“It may not be in contemplation of outer space that the greatest discoveries and explorations of the coming centuries will occur, but in our finally deciding to heed the dictum of self-unders… | Continue reading
“Music has a unifying effect on the peoples of the world, because they all understand and love it… And when they find themselves enjoying and loving the same music, they find themselves… | Continue reading
“I saw my little Una… so full of spirit and life that she was life itself. And then I looked at my poor dying mother, and seemed to see the whole of human existence at once, standing in… | Continue reading
“The universe makes a sound — is a sound. In the core of this sound there’s a silence, a silence that creates that sound, which is not its opposite, but its inseparable soul… Silence is… | Continue reading
The chance-anthropology of a secret tribe. | Continue reading
“Death makes human beings seem like very small containers that are packed so densely we can only we aware of a fraction of what’s inside us from moment to moment.” | Continue reading
“…and when two people have loved each other see how it is like a scar between their bodies, stronger, darker, and proud…” | Continue reading
“The distance between here and there is the answer to the wrong question.” | Continue reading
A subtle sylvan celebration of how our hurts and our healings shape the singular beauty of our character. | Continue reading
“Potentially, every tree is immortal.” | Continue reading
How our cosmic improbability confers dignity and meaning upon our shared existence. | Continue reading
“This life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of the entire existence, but is in a certain sense the whole.” | Continue reading
The story of the countercultural courage and persistence that shaped the modern ecological conscience. | Continue reading
“Doing and making are acts of hope, and as that hope grows we stop feeling overwhelmed by the troubles of the world. We remember that we — as individuals and groups — can do something about t… | Continue reading
“For most of their history… gardens have been more concerned with the power of plants than with their beauty — with the power, that is, to change us in various ways, for good and for il… | Continue reading
“We reach forth and strain every nerve, but we seize only a bit of the curtain that hides the infinite from us.” | Continue reading
Cinematic songs of praise for the visible invisibilities and the silent symphonies that make life worth living. | Continue reading
“As always happens with contradictions, something in the assumptions has to give… Declaring something impossible leads to more things being possible.” | Continue reading
Notes from the odyssey of ongoingness, notes for the symphony of aliveness. | Continue reading
A lyric reminder that “the word for world is forest” and the feeling of forest is love. | Continue reading
“We want to believe that love is singular and exclusive, and it unnerves us to think that it might actually be renewable…” | Continue reading
“All things seem possible in nature; yet this seeming is always guarded by the eager quest of what IS true. Perhaps half the falsehood in the world is due to lack of power to detect the truth… | Continue reading
“Here lies the paradox of solitude. Look long and hard enough at yourself in isolation and suddenly you will see the rest of humanity staring back.” | Continue reading
“Crisis… is an attempt to dislodge us from a toxic status quo and constitutes an insistent call to rebuild our lives on a more authentic and sincere basis.” | Continue reading
“These objects are, it is true, among the humblest of creatures that are endowed with organic life… Here we catch the first kindling of that spark, which glows into so noble a flame in … | Continue reading
“The intention of deep listening and loving speech is to restore communication, because once communication is restored, everything is possible.” | Continue reading