Reads tagged with “books”
The Solace of Open Spaces
“There is nothing in nature that can’t be taken as a sign of both mortality and invigoration… Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are.”
Dismantling the Dogmas of Life and Death: How the Forgotten Prodigy William James Sidis Presaged the Quantum Undoing of Time and Thermodynamics
“There is no way of telling whether we are living organisms in a positive universe, or pseudo-living organisms in a negative universe.. The difference is really one merely between the two directions of time, and, though those two directions are opposite to each other, they have no physical properties which are in any way different.”
The Power of the Bittersweet: Susan Cain on Longing as the Fulcrum of Creativity
In search of the most transcendent solution to “the problem of being alive in a deeply flawed yet stubbornly beautiful world.”
Poet Mark Doty on Connection and Creativity
“We are all co-extensive, and our work is to move toward union… We must know our fellows in order for everything to move forward; it is our spiritual imperative to connect, or else the destiny of the world cannot be completed.”
Iris Murdoch’s Pocket History of the Five Phases of Freedom, in Literature and Life
“Freedom is our ability to rise out of history and grasp a universal idea of order which we then apply to the sensible world.”
The Art of Living: The Contemplative Cartoonist Grant Snider’s Illustrated Love Letter to Noticing and Manifesto for Self-Liberation from Striving
The consolation of clouds, the secret lives of leaves, and the yearning to be more fully human.
The Day Hermann Hesse Discovered the Meaning of Life in a Tree
“It was the great and eternal made visible: a confluence of opposites, their fusing together in the fire of reality. It meant nothing… or, rather, it meant everything… and it was beautiful, it was happiness and meaning… like an earful of Bach or an eyeful of Cézanne.”
The Stoic Key to Kindness
“Suppose someone standing by a clear, sweet spring were to curse it: it just keeps right on bringing drinkable water bubbling up to the surface.”
Catching the Light of the World: The Entwined History of Vision and Consciousness
“The light of the mind must flow into and marry with the light of nature to bring forth a world… To see, to hear, to be human requires… our ceaseless participation.”
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