Gauguin Reveals True Story of Van Gogh’s Ear Incident
On Gauguin's birthday, his stirring first-hand account of what actually happened the night his best friend Vincent van Gogh cut off his own ear https://t.co/pFqRPISR4K
Growth Thrives When Vulnerability Becomes Strength
“Wherever life can grow, it will. It will sprout out, and do the best it can.” On Gwendolyn Brooks's birthday, her abiding wisdom on vulnerability as strength and her advice to writers https://t.co/ZVsyR4suE1
Simple Mindfulness Practice Boosts Your Capacity for Joy
Tangerine Meditation – Thich Nhat Hanh's simple, profound mindfulness practice to magnify your capacity for joy https://t.co/eZwg68XFMI
Embrace Failure: A Transformative Perspective on Living
The single most helpful perspective I've ever encountered on how to live with your failures https://t.co/OgrD5Uff8C
Silence Your Inner Critic, Reclaim Personal Freedom
Against self-criticism – Adam Phillips on how our internal critics enslave us and how to break free https://t.co/qm5hNpGXAN
Qualia Reveal Core Mystery of Consciousness, Says Koch
Neuroscientist Christof Koch on how the "qualia" of our experience illuminate the central mystery of consciousness https://t.co/efeENya82s
Weekly Marginalian Picks: Life, Courage, Truth Explored
At the link, the best of The Marginalian this week in one place – swimming and the meaning of life, Zadie Smith on the courage to be more than yourself, Virginia Woolf on truth, fact, and how we come to...
Embrace Love While Accepting the Fear of Loss
Hannah Arendt's classic meditation on love and how to live with the fundamental fear of loss: https://t.co/vFMCDBF6ce
Chesterton's Wonder: Dandelions Reveal Life's Meaning
The dandelion and the meaning of life – on G.K. Chesterton's birthday, his magnificent meditation on wonder https://t.co/TvjM6OnLDA
Embrace Change Fully with Ursula K. Le Guin's Remedy
How to live fully — Ursula K. Le Guin’s remedy for our resistance to change https://t.co/FJ1Mj8JA6f
Finding Belonging Through Walking and Forgiveness in Japan
Things Become Other Things – absolutely gorgeous meditation on walking, forgiveness, and finding belonging in the mountains of Japan https://t.co/EY2J8Bma2F
Ruth Krauss’s Final Collaboration with Young Maurice Sendak
Ruth Krauss is one of the unsung heroes of our epoch, having raised generations of children with her uncommonly poetic books. Here is her final and loveliest collaboration with the young Maurice Sendak well before he dreamt up his Wild...
Discipline Unlocks Creative Freedom in Any Work
“1. Turn up for work. Discipline allows creative freedom. No discipline equals no freedom.” Jeanette Winterson’s 10 rules of writing, which apply to all creative work https://t.co/3jrGv2wAs4
Brodsky's Remedy: Poetry Beats Existential Boredom
Nobel laureate Joseph Brodsky on the cure for existential boredom (which may be the most pernicious and invisible modern epidemic beneath everything from loneliness to war) https://t.co/12A49eeD5x
Baby Hare Awakens Workaholic, Rekindles Her Wild Soul
The moving story of how a helpless baby hare helped a workaholic woman wake up from the trance of near-living and rewild her soul https://t.co/yBn8omsEpm