16 Oct,2022 | Brain Pickings, Personal Development
In praise of “the necessary and urgent need to love life and one another, despite the casual cruelty of the world.” The world reveals itself through our engagement with it — a truth as true in the “It for Bit” sense of physics as it in...
5 Aug,2022 | Brain Pickings, Personal Development
“Metaphor can create a merciful sense of distance from the cruel idea, or the unspeakable truth, and allow it to exist within us as a kind of poetic radiance, as a work of art.” “Once a poem is made available to the public, the right of interpretation...
6 Apr,2022 | Brain Pickings, Personal Development
“To love anybody is to expect something from him, something which can neither be defined nor foreseen; it is at the same time in someway to make it possible for him to fulfill this expectation.” The capacity for hope is not merely a hallmark of human...
1 Mar,2022 | Brain Pickings, Personal Development
The metaphysical made physical in a symphonic celebration of imagination, collaboration, and the human heart. “Time is a dictator, as we know it,” Nina Simone (February 21, 1933–April 21, 2003) observed in her soulful 1969 meditation on time....
20 Jan,2022 | Brain Pickings, Personal Development
“Your imagination… is mostly an accidental dance between collected memory and influence… a construction that awaits spiritual ignition.” Two years before she fused her childhood impression of a mechanical loom with her devotedly honed gift for...
