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...
Starlings' Murmurations: Nature's Mesmerizing Watercolor Dance
Starlings and the magic of murmurations – a magical watercolor serenade to one of Earth's greatest wonders https://t.co/qqcfc5Lvnb
Kids' Dictionary Drops Nature Words, Sparks Backlash
When the Oxford children's dictionary discarded dozens of nature-words—"dandelion," "fern," "starling"—as irrelevant to children's imagination and replaced them with words like "broadband" and "cut-and-paste," this inspired act of resistance was born: https://t.co/Is4zFAQqc6
Explore Your Seven Identity Layers with Amelie Rorty
How are you tending to each of your 7 layers of identity? Philosopher Amelie Rorty on what makes a person, in literature and life: https://t.co/4h169UOgbR
Le Guin: Menopause Signals Rebirth, Elders Empower Society
Ursula K. Le Guin on change, menopause as rebirth, and the civilizational value of elders https://t.co/F7JRCwG833
Finding Light Again: Bloom’s Journey Through Depression
Bloom – a touching animated short film about depression and what it takes to recover the light of being https://t.co/FgD7NGou4t
George Saunders: 3 Antidotes to Suffering Through Kindness
How to be an instrument of kindness in a harsh world – George Saunders on unthinking the mind, unstorying the self, and the 3 antidotes to your suffering https://t.co/DUCgC3JHbu
Poetic Meditations on Time, Love, and Wonder
This week oasis of small sanities, in one place – Pablo Neruda on how to hold time; the figments of love and the hallucinations of reason; the aurora borealis and the polar expedition saved by wonder: https://t.co/lvthiGXFPS https://t.co/SGPhzPIJb2
Reality vs Perception: From Zeno to Borges
Superb read on the endless tug-of-war between human nature and the nature of reality, from Zeno's paradox to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle to Borges's mirror https://t.co/jNaaCY1w60
Love Transforms Perception, Revealing a Golden Light
Letting in the golden light – Oliver Sacks on how love changes what we see https://t.co/VRmelozj2f
From Dropout to Nobel: Lessing's Timeless Reading Wisdom
Doris Lessing was 14 when she dropped out of school and 88 when she won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Her abiding wisdom on how to read a book and how to read the world https://t.co/LlU7CVEqUQ
24 Books That Shaped Gabriel García Márquez’s Visionary Mind
“Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it in order to recount it.” Gabriel García Márquez would have been 99 today. His formative reading list of 24 books that shaped his visionary mind: https://t.co/V3XOJsbWvG
Escape Algorithmic Tyranny with Marginalian’s Human‑Centred 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
Kundera Explores Life’s Ambivalence and Love’s Uncertainty
How do we know what we want – Milan Kundera on the central ambivalences of life and love https://t.co/YiTk12J73j
Weasel Wisdom: Annie Dillard's Guide to Living
What a weasel knows that we forget – Annie Dillard on how to live https://t.co/bZ2czI9bc3