Thich Nhat Hanh Links True Love to Self‑Knowledge Rivers
The great Zen teacher Thich Nhat Hanh on true love and the 5 rivers of self-knowledge https://t.co/nPsSrDxUQ2
Letting Go Unlocks Spiritual Love Awakening
"We can never go back... We can go forward. We can find the love our hearts long for, but not until we let go grief about the love we lost long ago... All awakening to love is spiritual awakening." bell...
Huxley: Love, Understanding, and Healing Existential Helplessness
Aldous Huxley on love, knowledge vs. understanding, and the antidote to our existential helplessness https://t.co/3aC6AmtliA
Springsteen Shares How He Battles Depression and Darkness
Bruce Springsteen on surviving depression and his strategy for living through the visitations of the darkness https://t.co/NzkiZ9XQDF
Memory Shapes Identity, yet Distorts Reality
How memory makes us and breaks us – the Rashomon effect and the science of how memories form and falter in the brain https://t.co/AkTfsRHTxX
Break the Cycle: Change Is Possible in Relationships
Can people change? How to break the psychological loop that keeps us in bad relationships https://t.co/mnkGCk1ewY
Weekly Marginalian Highlights: Love, Roots, Life’s Meaning
At the link, the best of The Marginalian this week in a single place – where love goes when it goes, roots and the meaning of life, and introducing a new labor of love: https://t.co/DF2CLpngXc https://t.co/Uz9olmZrHi
Time Moves Forward; Past Is Blurry, Future Unseen
"It’s a mercy that time runs in one direction only, that we see the past but darkly and the future not at all." Beautiful, beautiful read: https://t.co/b8dsnp3Jfs
Divine Solace Resides Within, Not in Scriptures
“If you are now wondering where to look for consolation, where to seek a new and better God… he does not come to us from books, he lives within us… This God is in you too. He is most particularly...
Change Flows Like Water in “Blue Floats Away”
Blue Floats Away – a tender illustrated story about our capacity for change, lensed through the water cycle https://t.co/blByzfdCYm
How Magnetism and the Hippocampus Shape Identity
Place, personhood, and the hippocampus – the fascinating science of magnetism, autonoeic consciousness, and what makes us who we are https://t.co/fwAO3bAAtu
Isolation Reveals Humanity, Prompting Return to Community
"Here lies the paradox of solitude. Look long and hard enough at yourself in isolation and suddenly you will see the rest of humanity staring back. Sustained aloneness brings you to a tipping point where the pendulum of life returns...
Forgotten Poet Rediscovered as Japan’s Beloved Children’s Voice
Are You an Echo – on #WorldPoetryDay, the remarkable story of the forgotten woman who died in her twenties and was rediscovered to become Japan's most beloved children's poet https://t.co/zk1RX1W0Kf
French Picture Book Shows Poetry's Healing Magic
This Is a Poem That Heals Fish – on #WorldPoetryDay, an almost unbearably wonderful French picture-book about how poetry works its magic https://t.co/KxUMLIeBE0
Vintage Italian Meditation Celebrates Tree Diversity and Resilience
Drawing a tree – an uncommon and lovely vintage Italian meditation on diversity and resilience through the science and poetry of trees https://t.co/p6CqOfoipu
Escape Algorithm Tyranny with the Human‑Centred 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
You Are the Universe: Schrödinger Links Quantum and Consciousness
What makes you makes the universe – Nobel laureate Erwin Schrödinger on quantum physics, Eastern philosophy, and the ongoing mystery of consciousness https://t.co/UfTy1ZFyAp
Fractals Reveal Grief’s Endless Patterns and Healing
The geometry of grief – a mathematician on how fractals can help us fathom loss and reorient to the ongoingness of life https://t.co/Wn1tUryzma
Mister Rogers Reminds Parents: Imperfection Is Okay
Mister Rogers would have been 98 today. His assuring antidote to the anxieties about imperfection in parenting https://t.co/WvMvSyxbuL
Jung’s Guiding Principle: Embrace Uncertainty to Find Meaning
Carl Jung on how to live and the origin of his famous tenet for navigating uncertainty https://t.co/AjaTkfiKft
Consciousness Is a Full-Body Phenomenon, Says Damasio
I Feel, Therefore I Am – neuroscientist Antonio Damasio on consciousness as a full-body phenomenon https://t.co/F7gTEhWLHS
May Sarton: Embrace Openhearted Living Amid Hardship
Oh this is so wonderful: Poet May Sarton on how to live openheartedly in a harsh world https://t.co/1XoEV93JjZ
Love, Forgive, Stay Young: Keys to a Fulfilling Life
“If you can fall in love again and again… if you can forgive as well as forget, if you can keep from growing sour, surly, bitter and cynical… you’ve got it half licked.” Henry Miller on how to grow old and...
Solitude Is the Ultimate Intimate Sanctuary
"There is no place more intimate than the spirit alone." May Sarton's stunning century-old ode to solitude: https://t.co/k74FSjIOBe
Choose a Growth Mindset for a More Fruitful Life
Fixed vs. growth – a classic on the two basic mindsets that shape our lives and the key to the far more fruitful one https://t.co/8HY4rFAsVj
Embrace Solitude and Inner Truth, Says Heaney
"The true and durable path into and through experience involves being true ... to your own solitude, true to your own secret knowledge." Nobel-winning poet Seamus Heaney's magnificent advice on life https://t.co/m8jbpCDNcV
Futurist Cookbook's Century-Old Rules Redefine Perfect Meals
The Futurist Cookbook – 11 rules for a perfect meal and an anti-pasta manifesto from a century ago https://t.co/Nxi6WI15Vq
Turn Bad Luck Into Strength with Stoic Wisdom
Marcus Aurelius on the good luck of your bad luck – the Stoic strategy for weathering life's waves and turning suffering into strength https://t.co/D4wpwb2IN4
Nick Cave Debunks Originality Myth, Guides Finding Your Voice
Nick Cave on creativity, the myth of originality, and how to find your voice https://t.co/5xLqtS2LN8
Hasui Kawase’s Vintage Woodblocks Celebrate Moonlit Trees
Of trees, tenderness, and the Moon – the gorgeous vintage woodblocks of Japanese artist Hasui Kawase https://t.co/6dPkjlpTEt
Robert Walser Reveals Walking's Truth Beyond Daily Posturing
This is such an unusual and strangely revelatory read: The forgotten visionary Robert Walser, the art of walking, and our daily dance between posturing and sincerity https://t.co/PPg7YGtIKe
Learn Human Resilience From Lichen’s Adaptive Strategies
How to be a lichen – adaptive strategies for the vulnerabilities of being human from Earth's tiny titans of resilience https://t.co/Ongc6Wg6kS
Finding and Carrying Your Inner Light
I Touched the Sun – a tender illustrated fable about how to find and bear your inner light https://t.co/I6uFCzCfZO
Small Kindnesses Can Save Lives, Says Saint‑Exupéry
How to save a life – Little Prince author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, who was once a prisoner of war, on the power of the smallest kindnesses https://t.co/4oUrLLfPoK
Rediscover Human-Heartedness Through Watts' Take on Jen
How to recover your "human-heartedness" – Alan Watts on the Confucian concept of Jen https://t.co/s7Nq7fT7uD
Brain Scan Unveils Secrets Behind Leonardo’s Polymath Genius
Leonardo's Brain – a posthumous "brian scan" exploring the secret to his polymathic creativity https://t.co/CV2EyvESBH
Edward Abbey’s Bold Guide to Living and Dying
Edward Abbey died on this day in 1989, leaving us his daring directive for how to live and how to die https://t.co/VghiOJ7Ykw
Fairy Tales Boost Children's Intelligence, Says Einstein
"If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be very intelligent, read them more fairy tales." On Einstein's birthday, his delightful advice on education: https://t.co/Bvsu80aPWl
Repeated Annihilation Reveals Our Indestructible Core
"Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible be found in us." A Zen classic on transformation through those times when things fall apart: https://t.co/sUB3Q3tn1v
Escape Algorithm Tyranny with Marginalian’s Human‑Centric 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: https://t.co/8ApDA5YPF6
Self‑Deception Can Help, But Harmful Delusions Need Curing
User-friendly self-deception – philosopher Amelie Rorty on the value of our delusions and the antidote to the self-defeating ones https://t.co/ad7h1AUJRu
Barry Lopez Reveals Cure for Loneliness and Life’s Three Tenets
Barry Lopez on the cure for our existential loneliness and the 3 tenets of a full life https://t.co/xiziNeKuc5
Space Perspective: Astronaut's Remedy for Global Despair
How to feel whole in a broken world – an astronaut's antidote to despair https://t.co/ag0U9xOxOx
Embracing Uncertainty Is the Courage to Love Everything
George Saunders's disarmingly wonderful meditation on the courage of uncertainty, which is the courage to love the world: https://t.co/MmkRMjpy6q
Poetry Saves Lives: A Powerful, Inspiring Read
Why are we not better than we are – wonderful, wonderful read on how poetry saves lives https://t.co/kV1EMCkgdY
Kerouac’s 30 Tenets: Embrace Experience, Language, and Knowledge
“No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge.” On Jack Kerouac's birthday today, his 30 tenets of writing and life https://t.co/8vU4F40wDh
Kerouac's 5‑Mile Tape‑Recorder Rescue: A Remarkable Tale
The night Jack Kerouac, born 104 years ago today, walked five miles with a colossal reel-to-reel tape recorder on his back to keep a young woman from taking her own life – immeasurably wonderful true story https://t.co/KxTbANQpwd
Kerouac’s Letter: Kindness Reveals Heaven Within
"Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you're already in heaven now." On Jack Kerouac's birthday, his beautiful letter to his first wife turned lifelong friend about kindness and the illusion of the self https://t.co/ZprJn5qWi8
Birds Dream: Evolution Crafted REM for Sleep Practice
What birds dream about and how evolution invented REM in the avian brain so we may practice the possible in our sleep https://t.co/N8KS6IV92p
Wanda Gág’s Diary Reveals Love and Dual Selves
Born on this day in 1893, the forgotten visionary Wanda Gág paved the way for women in art and entrepreneurship. Along the way, she kept a gorgeous and poignant illustrated diary. Here are her reflections on love and our two...