“The object in meditation and all of our contemplative disciplines is silence… in order for you to perceive something other than yourself… Poetry is the verbal art-form by which w… | Continue reading
The story of the countercultural courage and persistence that shaped the modern ecological conscience. | Continue reading
“Mysteries inside mysteries in our own bodies of which we can’t make sense, another world waiting for a religion or calculus to explain.” | Continue reading
“Can you plant a garden to stop a war? It depends how you think about time. It depends what you think a seed does, if it’s tossed into fertile soil.” | Continue reading
“Can you plant a garden to stop a war? It depends how you think about time. It depends what you think a seed does, if it’s tossed into fertile soil.” | Continue reading
“As I wander into the predawn dark of an autumn wood, I feel the presence of things beyond flesh, bone, and blood. My being expands to fit the limitlessness of the wild world.” | Continue reading
“…as long as our kindness is still incomparable, peerless even in its imperfection…” | Continue reading
A tender invitation to look more closely and love ourselves, each other, and the world more deeply. | Continue reading
A field guide to making joyous peace with “the end of time, which is also the end of poetry (and wheat and evil and insects and love).” | Continue reading
A subversive Victorian-tinted infusion of romantic realism. | Continue reading
The art of tempering your fury with an infuriating existential truth. | Continue reading
The world’s first pictorial glimpse of the strange and wondrous creatures that give our planet its scent and color. | Continue reading
How to see the universe in a small orange orb. | Continue reading
How to see the universe in a small orange orb. | Continue reading
How to master the infinitely rewarding art of “being present and seeing what’s there.” | Continue reading
“The gardener digs in another time, without past or future, beginning or end… Here is the Amen beyond the prayer.” | Continue reading
“Patient thought, patient labor, and firmness of purpose are almost omnipotent.” | Continue reading
“Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth.” | Continue reading
What 1960s counterculture had to do with the timeless quest for self-actualization and the growth of the human spirit. | Continue reading
“Everybody who writes is interested in living inside themselves to tell what is inside themselves.” | Continue reading
“The day ends. The night falls. And in between… there is the blue hour.” | Continue reading
Transcendence and tenderness in the lacuna of awe between the creaturely and the cosmic. | Continue reading
“Twenty-five years before the first microchip, forty years before the first personal computer, and fifty years before the first Web browser, Paul Otlet had envisioned something very much like… | Continue reading
“Here you may enter galactic memory, disguised as a whirlpool of sand, and discover you are pure event mixed with water, occurring in time and space, as sheep, a few goats, graze, keep watch … | Continue reading
“There is nothing quite so tragic as a young cynic, because it means the person has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.” | Continue reading
On the lifelong art of feeling worthy of wanting and worthy of receiving. | Continue reading
“There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet, which fails so regularly, as love.” | Continue reading
Sylvan sublimity between the heavens and the deep blue sea. | Continue reading
“We are protected not so much by our own skin, but by what is beyond it. The boundaries between our bodies begin to dissolve here… Immunity… is a common trust as much as it is a p… | Continue reading
How a forgotten visionary’s futuristic dream dared generations to reimagine the relationship between nature and human creativity. | Continue reading
“You see what you want to see. You might think it’s speaking to you, but it’s just your imagination.” | Continue reading
“You cannot think simultaneously about listening to the waves and whether you are enjoying listening to the waves.” | Continue reading
Collision and convergence in Truth and Beauty at the intersection of science and spirituality. | Continue reading
On where to seek refuge from the forethought of grief. | Continue reading
Soulful sylvan consolation partway between David Byrne, Bill T. Jones, and the Buddha. | Continue reading
Poetic enchantments in pen, ink, and imagination. | Continue reading
“Wintering… is the courage to stare down the worst parts of our experience and to commit to healing them the best we can. Wintering is a moment of intuition, our true needs felt keenly … | Continue reading
Kurt Vonnegut, Susan Sontag, Aldous Huxley, Oliver Sacks, Walt Whitman, Virginia Woolf, Friedrich Nietzsche, and more. | Continue reading
How a refugee and a lesbian lifted humanity from the age of superstition to the age of reason and pioneered the subversive art of telling our own stories by our own truth. | Continue reading
“It’s a feeling of happiness that knocks me clean out of adjectives. I think sometimes that the best reason for writing novels is to experience those four and a half hours after you write the… | Continue reading
“Lovers’ reading of each other’s bodies… differs from the reading of written pages in that it is not linear… What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other most is that wit… | Continue reading
“We’re so often told that art can’t really change anything. But… it shapes our ethical landscapes; it opens us to the interior lives of others. It is a training ground for possibility. … | Continue reading
A trailblazing effort “to give, in as systematic and compact a form as possible, the history and present condition of a large group of human beings.” | Continue reading
“In the mind’s eye, a fractal is a way of seeing infinity.” | Continue reading
An inspired signal from that sacred place where the spirit of wakeful action meets the bone of ancient wisdom. | Continue reading
“Try to accept this fat red hurt is your starting point.” | Continue reading
“If we ourselves do not govern our destiny, firmly and courageous, no one is going to do it for us.” | Continue reading
The story of a forgotten visionary suspended between science and spiritual yearning, who inspired Kant and anticipated Hubble. | Continue reading