Six Principles for Selfless Listening From Erich Fromm
6 rules of listening and unselfish understanding from the great humanistic philosopher and psychologist Erich Fromm https://t.co/72n1LPPUNl
Transcend Limiting Beliefs, Embrace What You Truly Deserve
The Truelove – David Whyte's moving meditation on transcending your limiting beliefs about what you deserve https://t.co/nZclZSmFu0
Happiness Is Growing Peacefully Within Yourself
"What is happiness but growth in peace." May Sarton's revelation of a poem about being at home in yourself https://t.co/G9xUIOPSmh
Stendhal Predicted Modern Love's Seven Psychological Stages
Two centuries ago, before the birth of psychology as we know it, Stendhal wrote with uncommon insight about the 7 psychological stages of falling in and out of love https://t.co/ifoZvG5ynE
Reignite Wonder: Healing Burnout and Existential Void
How to grow reenchanted with the world – a salve for the sense of existential meaninglessness and burnout https://t.co/MqPawlj256
Fernando Pessoa Links Sleep to Life’s Existential Meaning
Sleep and the meaning of life – Fernando Pessoa on the existential dimension of the horizontal hours https://t.co/frZXCsLuPl
Accept Life’s Gifts and Losses, Say Yes
"People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents. Life gives these and also takes them away and the great difficulty is to say Yes to life." Baldwin on love, the...
Margaret Fuller Reveals Path to Oneness with the All
Unselfing into oneness with "the All" – the forgotten visionary Margaret Fuller on transcendence https://t.co/ZPkjr4d4Wx
Music, Zen, and Cage: Blueprint for Good Living
“Good music can act as a guide to good living.” Gorgeous read on the inner life of the creative spirit lensed through Zen Buddhism and the life of John Cage https://t.co/GknNVx2rF8
Billie Holiday’s Birth Celebrated in Illustrated Tale
Mister and Lady Day – the charming illustrated story of Billie Holiday, born on this day in 1915, and the dog who loved her https://t.co/ImETu60BYq
Winnicott's Legacy: Healthy Minds, Healthy Relationships
The visionary Winnicott, born 130 years ago today, on the qualities of a healthy mind and a healthy relationship https://t.co/5plPXhLxJg
Burnout Can Bless You: Samin Nosrat’s Simple Life Recipe
The blessing of burnout – chef Samin Nosrat's simple recipe for the good life https://t.co/Ch5s4YLADU
Resist Algorithmic Tyranny with the Human‑Centric Marginalian Newsletter
For an act of resistance to the tyranny of algorithms, try the Marginalian newsletter—undistracted notes on the search for meaning, free, ad-free, AI-free, fully human since 2006, made of feeling and time: https://t.co/8ApDA5YPF6
Discard the Surface Self with Underhill’s Timeless Guide
How to shed the surface self – the forgotten visionary Evelyn Underhill's century-old field guide to touching the depths of being https://t.co/C5ea57rwsN
Diane Ackerman Explores Intimacy Within the Infinite
A Cosmic Pastoral – poet Diane Ackerman on the intimate in the infinite and the responsibility of rapture https://t.co/evvyU595DA
Find Peace by Uncovering the Soul Beneath Self
Hermann Hesse on discovering the soul beneath the self and the key to finding peace https://t.co/MHf65dkISe
Rumi’s Remedy: Choose Love Over Indifference
The art of choosing love over not-love – on Rumi's immortal antidote to our human tragedy https://t.co/yXGVYxGBdE
Breakups Trigger Limbic System: The Physiology of Abandonment
For anyone who has ever been left: Relationship rupture and the limbic system – the physiology beneath the psychology of abandonment and separation https://t.co/3OLeHB39Jv
Gibran's Heartfelt Plea to Soldiers in Futile War
Sentinels of the soul – Kahlil Gibran's moving letter to a soldier in a senseless war https://t.co/mYmRdtIqX3
Six Willpower Traps Blocking Talent’s Path to Greatness
Diseases of the Will – neuroscience founding father Santiago Ramón y Cajal on the 6 psychological pitfalls that keep the talented from reaching greatness https://t.co/4ZF1BSWvWq
Havel's Prison Letter Teaches Embracing Your Greatest Failure
Vaclav Havel, writing from prison, on how to live with your greatest failure — one of the most extraordinary letters I have ever read https://t.co/OgrD5Uff8C
Sister of the James Brothers' Dying Wisdom on Living Fully
William and Henry James had a sister, Alice, at least as brilliant as her brothers. When she was dying from a mysterious malady, she wrote stunningly about how to live fully: https://t.co/oliNlRIW1C
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Margaret Mead and James Baldwin's forgotten, prophetic conversation about reimagining democracy for a post-consumerist age https://t.co/6kZgn33NZP
Quiet Sitting Fuels Poetry and Whole‑Human Growth
"Make a place to sit down. Sit down. Be quiet. You must depend upon affection, reading, knowledge, skill — more of each than you have — inspiration, work, growing older, patience..." Wendell Berry on how to be a poet and a complete human being https://t.co/xIliScl7Fl
Gardening Becomes a Journey of Self‑Discovery
The art of befriending time and change – @debbiemillman's lovely illustrated love letter to gardening as a portal to self-discovery https://t.co/vMIBqBoAtt
Moss Reveals the Power of Attentiveness Across Scales
The magic of moss and what it teaches us about the art of attentiveness to life at all scales https://t.co/n1O9vGnzhI
Refugee Mathematician Unveils Fractal Order in Chaos
The pattern inside the pattern – fractals, the hidden order of chaos, and the story of the refugee who revolutionized the mathematics of reality https://t.co/dkd8i5VVcb
How Dying Mothers Sparked Handwashing and Frankenstein’s Romance
Dying mothers, the birth of handwashing, and the bittersweet true love story behind Frankenstein https://t.co/cZpyMC8mmY
Steal, Improve, and Learn From Hemingway’s Advice
"In any art you're allowed to steal anything if you can make it better." Hemingways advice on writing, ambition, and his reading list of essential books for aspiring writers: https://t.co/NGKYFHnQDr
Delight as Resistance: Berry’s Path to Sanity
The measure of a rich life – Wendell Berry on delight as a force of resistance and the key to felicitous sanity during hardship https://t.co/F1GzTNXgcR
Welty: Embrace Time's Nonlinear Path to Writing Self
Eudora Welty on writing, time, and embracing the nonlinearity of how we become who we are https://t.co/bvP6qKs3mh
A Soulful Illustrated Anatomy of Grief
For anyone who has lost a loved one, an uncommonly soulful illustrated anatomy of loss https://t.co/AuEnV3Yq3I
The Real Peaceful Bull Behind Ferdinand’s Story
On #InternationalChildrensBookDay, the bittersweet true story of the real-life peaceful bull who inspired Ferdinand https://t.co/Bvbznp3ckb
Invisible Essentials Revealed in Little Prince Originals
"What is essential is invisible to the eye." On #InternationalChildrensBookDay, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s original watercolors for The Little Prince and the bittersweet story behind the beloved book https://t.co/GCOJ4gT2wN
Louise Glück Sees a Door Beyond Suffering
The Wild Iris – Nobel laureate Louise Glück on the door at the end of your suffering https://t.co/77NZKWeLLS #NationalPoetryMonth
Andersen's Unrequited Love Birthed The Nightingale
The nightingale and the loneliness of unrequited love – how Hans Christian Andersen, born 221 years ago today, turned his heartbreak into one of the most beloved fairy tales of all time https://t.co/U5Pt4y6tOm
Kundera on Life’s Central Ambivalences and Desire
How do we know what we want? Milan Kundera, born on this day in 1929, on the central ambivalences of life and love https://t.co/YiTk12J73j
Poetry: A Lifesaving Force for Humanity
Why are we not better than we are – for #NationalPoetryMonth, a gorgeous read on how poetry saves lives https://t.co/e3uY8k1dEF
Burton’s 17th‑Century Depression Cure Beats Modern Medicine
The antidote to melancholy – Robert Burton's centuries-old salve for depression, far ahead of modern medicine https://t.co/7qVhWOAfdO
Humanity's Faith Preserves the Ancient Ginkgo Tree
If you could use some faith in our species, the moving story of how humanity saved the ginkgo https://t.co/yV8Wp9do07
Creative Work as Self‑Forgiveness and Hope, Says Nick Cave
Nick Cave on creative work as an instrument of self-forgiveness and the courage of hope in cynical times https://t.co/BHK62EaxE5
Carl Sagan Reveals Birth of Humanity’s Golden Record
We Are Singing Stardust – Carl Sagan on the story of humanity's greatest message and how the Golden Record was born https://t.co/K4225zBiea
Identity and Generosity Shape Our Journey Through Suffering
"All you have is what you are, and what you give." Ursula K. Le Guin on suffering and getting to the other side of pain https://t.co/9jQAnM68q0
Camus on Life's Will and Existence's Core Question
Albert Camus on the will to live and the most important question of existence https://t.co/X3GrSBRXAt
Curated Sanity: Poetry, Bicycle Origins, and Hope
At the link, this week's oasis of selected sanities in one place: Corrective for a broken heart (a poem), how the bicycle was born (a surprising story), and Terry Tempest Williams on our stays against despair: https://t.co/JGLOgUIH1Q https://t.co/8GPKVekG2M
Virginia Woolf's Legacy: Deep Literature and Creative Insight
Virginia Woolf was slain by depression on this day in 1941, having given us some of the most life-deepening literature our civilization has produced. Her abiding insight into the essence of creativity: https://t.co/riynGV93mp
Emerson: Character Trumps Talent for Real Growth
Emerson on talent vs. character, our resistance to change, and the key to true personal growth https://t.co/ZzbpMA2w4R
Broken Moments Reveal Our Unbreakable Strength
“Life will break you,” Louise Erdrich wrote in her passionate insistence that “you are here to risk your heart.” It can happen with a shattering, or with a thousand small fissures, but the great paradox — the great salvation —...
Finding Names for Unnamed Emotions Through Obscure Sorrows
I so regularly come back to, and take immense delight in, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows – invented words for real things we feel but cannot name https://t.co/cQlaZaCnFM
Choose Fluidity over Rigidity: Transform Your Conditioning
"We can change, evolve, and transform our own conditioning. We can choose to move like water rather than be molded like clay. Life spirals in and then spirals out on any given day. It does not have to be one...