4 Jul,2022 | Brain Pickings, Personal Development
“To be a victim of change is to ignore its existence.” “It is almost banal to say so yet it needs to be stressed continually: all is creation, all is change, all is flux, all is metamorphosis,” Henry Miller wrote as he contemplated humanity’s future....
4 May,2021 | Brain Pickings, Personal Development
“Envy those who see beauty in everything in the world,” artist Egon Schiele wrote in contemplating why visionaries tend to come from the minority. Artists are so often those whom society paints as other by some hue of identity and belonging, and yet they are also the...
27 Jun,2020 | Brain Pickings, Personal Development
“Children know something that most people have forgotten. Children possess a fascination with their everyday existence that is very special and would be very helpful to adults if they could learn to understand and respect it.” Growing in Bulgaria, one of...
