31 Dec,2021 | Brain Pickings, Personal Development
From the Stoics to the snails, by way of music, matter, and the mind. It is an annual ritual to glance over time’s shoulder each year and reflect on what has made it most livable and worthy of living through my writing — always the clearest mirror of what...
25 Jul,2021 | Brain Pickings, Personal Development
“The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia.” We are born into the certitude of our eventual death. Every once in a while, something perhaps an encounter...