Search results for “Kafka”
Staying Alive: Mary Oliver on How Books Saved Her Life and the Greatest Antidote to Sorrow
“The world’s otherness is antidote to confusion [and] standing within this otherness — the beauty and the mystery of the world, out in the fields or deep inside books — can re-dignify the worst-stung heart.”
A Small Dark Light: Ursula K. Le Guin on the Legacy of the Tao Te Ching and What It Continues to Teach Us About Personal and Political Power 2,500 Years Later
“It is the profound modesty of the language that offers what so many people for so many centuries have found in this book: a pure apprehension of the mystery of which we are part.”
A Cross-Cultural Bridge of Kinship and Mutual Appreciation: The Moving Correspondence of Albert Camus and Boris Pasternak
“It is false to say that frontiers do not exist. They do exist, temporarily. But at the same time there exists a force of creativity and truth uniting us all, in humility and in pride at the same time.”
Mental Health, Free Will, and Your Microbiome
“We are legion, each and every one of us. Always a ‘we’ and never a ‘me.’”
Neil Gaiman on Why We Read and What Books Do for the Human Experience
“Truth is not in what happens but in what it tells us about who we are.”
Keats on the Three Layers of Reality and What Gives Meaning to Human Existence
“Every mental pursuit takes its reality and worth from the ardour of the pursuer.”
Proust on Why We Read
“The end of a book’s wisdom appears to us as merely the start of our own, so that at the moment when the book has told us everything it can, it gives rise to the feeling that it has told us nothing.”
A Child of Books: An Illustrated Love Letter to the Wondrous World of Words and Stories
A jubilant paean to books as participatory engines of self-discovery, self-creation, and self-transformation.
Diane Ackerman on the Evolutionary and Existential Purpose of Deep Play
“In rare moments of deep play, we can lay aside our sense of self, shed time’s continuum, ignore pain, and sit quietly in the absolute present, watching the world’s ordinary miracles.”
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