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Notes on Complexity: A Buddhist Scientist on the Murmuration of Being
“You are this body, and you are these molecules, and you are these atoms, and you are these quantum entities, and you are the quantum foam, and you are the energetic field of space-time, and, ultimately, you are the fundamental awareness out of which all these emerge.”
What Rises from the Ruins: Katherine Anne Porter on the Power of the Artist and the Function of Art in Human Life
“We understand very little of what is happening to us at any given moment.”
Excellent Advice for Living: Kevin Kelly’s Life-Tested Wisdom He Wished He Knew Earlier
“The chief prevention against getting old is to remain astonished.”
The Power of Being a Heretic: The Forgotten Visionary Jane Ellen Harrison on Critical Thinking, Emotional Imagination, and How to Rehumanize the World
“If we are to be true and worthy heretics, we need not only new heads, but new hearts, and, most of all, that new emotional imagination… begotten of enlarged sympathies and a more sensitive habit of feeling.”
Look Up: The Illustrated Story of Astronomer Henrietta Leavitt, Who Laid the Groundwork for Measuring the Universe
How a brilliant woman rose against the tide of her time to fathom the mysteries of space.
Uses of the Erotic: Audre Lorde on the Relationship Between Eros, Creativity, and Power
“There is, for me, no difference between writing a good poem and moving into sunlight against the body of a woman I love.”
The Porcupine Dilemma: Schopenhauer’s Parable about Negotiating the Optimal Distance in Love
How to Be Animal: An Antidote to Our Self-Expatriation from Nature
How to embrace our inheritance as “a creature of organic substance and electricity that can be eaten, injured and dissipated back into the enigmatic physics of the universe.”
How People Change: Psychoanalyst Allen Wheelis on the Essence of Freedom and the Two Elements of Self-Transcendence
“We create ourselves. The sequence is suffering, insight, will, action, change.”
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