Reads tagged with “psychology”
How to Be a Living Poem: Lucille Clifton on the Balance of Intellect and Intuition in Creative Work and the Healing Power of Connection
“I didn’t graduate from college, which isn’t necessary to be a poet. It is only necessary to be interested in humans and to be in touch with yourself as a human.”
The Importance of Trusting Yourself: Nick Cave on the Relationship Between Creativity and Faith
“There is more going on than we can see or understand, and we need to find a way to lean into the mystery of things.”
Octavia Butler’s Advice on Writing
“No matter how tired you get, no matter how you feel like you can’t possibly do this, somehow you do.”
The Courage to Be Yourself: Virginia Woolf on How to Hear Your Soul
“Beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself.”
How to Live in Light: A Blind Hero of the French Resistance on Seeing the Heart of Life and Contacting the Oneness of Being
“There is only one world. Things outside only exist if you go to meet them with everything you carry in yourself. As to the things inside, you will never see them well unless you allow those outside to enter in.”
Roxane Gay on Loving vs. Being in Love and the Mark of a Soul Mate
“It isn’t perfect, not at all. It doesn’t need to be. It is, simply, what fills you up.”
How to Own Your Weakness: Alan Watts on the Confucian Concept of Jen and the Dangers of Self-Righteousness
“Trust in human nature is acceptance of the good-and-bad of it, and it is hard to trust those who do not admit their own weakness.”
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating: An Uncommon Meditation on Presence and the Aperture of Wonder
“Survival often depends on a specific focus: a relationship, a belief, or a hope balanced on the edge of possibility.”
Milan Kundera on the Power of Coincidences and the Musicality of How Chance Composes Our Lives
“Human lives… are composed like music. Guided by his sense of beauty, an individual transforms a fortuitous occurrence… into a motif, which then assumes a permanent place in the composition of the individual’s life.”
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