Reads tagged with “culture”
Hymn to Time: Ursula K. Le Guin’s Ode to the Most Mysterious Dimension of Being
An ode to the eternal “let there be” between death and chance.
Esperanza Spalding Performs William Blake’s Short Existential Poem “The Fly”
A centuries-old, timeless meditation on chance, suffering, and the improbable glory of life.
Trailblazing Scottish Mountaineer and Poet Nan Shepherd on the Transcendent Rewards of Walking and What Makes for an Ideal Walking Companion
“The body is not made negligible, but paramount. Flesh is not annihilated but fulfilled. One is not bodiless, but essential body.”
Rilke on Inspiration and the Combinatorial Nature of Creativity
“One must have memories of many nights of love, none of which was like the others… One must also have been beside the dying, one must have sat beside the dead in the room with the open window…”
The Hour of Land: Terry Tempest Williams on the Responsibility of Awe and the Wilderness as an Antidote to the War Within Ourselves
“Awe is the moment when ego surrenders to wonder.”
Anna Deavere Smith on the Importance of Bringing Light to History’s Shadows and Resisting the Destructive Patterns Handed Down to Us by Our Invisible Pasts
“A beating — even a public beating — could happen without anyone so much as striking a blow.”
Evolutionary Biologist Lynn Margulis on the Spirituality of Science and the Interconnectedness of Life Across Time, Space, and Species
“The fact that we are connected through space and time shows that life is a unitary phenomenon, no matter how we express that fact.”
The Paradox of Freedom: The Great Humanistic Philosopher and Psychologist Erich Fromm on Moral Aloneness and Our Mightiest Antidote to Terror
“Modern man still is anxious and tempted to surrender his freedom to dictators of all kinds, or to lose it by transforming himself into a small cog in the machine.”
Christopher Hitchens on Animal Rights, Our Human Hubris, and the Lesser Appreciated Moral of George Orwell’s “Animal Farm”
“All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.”
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