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Novelist Charles Kingsley on happiness: “We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us hap

An alive culture replaces distraction and escapism with mindful attention, direct experience, active participation, creative expression, deep connecti

Looking back on the bleak period when depression swept away the herons from the sky of his mind and voided the world of wonder, he reflects: There are

The more advanced we get, the more we seem to forget what made us human in the first place: wonder, imagination, the strange glittery unpredictability

This isn't just performative magic — it's belief magic that expands our sense of what's possible, our sense of our own power, and our capacity to move

Looking back on the bleak period when depression swept away the herons from the sky of his mind and voided the world of wonder, he reflects: There are

I have a theory about nostalgia: It happens because the best survival strategy in an uncertain world is to overworry. When you look back, you forget a

There is something frustratingly Tao about curiosity. (1) It is by following your curiosity that you can bring something new and beautiful into the wo

The more advanced we get, the more we seem to forget what made us human in the first place: wonder, imagination, the strange glittery unpredictability

“If your world is not enchanted, you’re not paying attention.”

When you learn something new for the first time you flail miserably at it, but eventually you identify your weaknesses and over time the process towar

In filling the well, think magic. Think delight. Think fun. Do not think duty. Do notdo what you should do—spiritual sit-ups like reading a dull but r

Seriousness saddles the work with a burden. It misses the playful side of being human. The chaotic exuberance of being present in the world. The light

We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. – George Bernard Shaw

Everybody wants to have a village, but few are willing to be villagers. Building presence takes work. It requires vulnerability, patience, and the wil

“Authoritarians cannot rise if there are strong communities and people are acting with joy. That is, you need despair and anger in order for an author

They've still got their morning paper and their coffee and their time And they still enjoy their evenings with the skeptics and the wine But all the w

Side projects as the key to the good life By Marty Bell • 31 Jul 2025 When I was 13, I created a chat room for teenagers to talk about art and photog

We've made "work" synonymous with suffering, when it should be synonymous with building.

It is my belief that the World (or, if you will, the House, since the two are for all practical purposes identical) wishes an Inhabitant for Itself to

Theory of Other Worlds. Simply put, it said that when knowledge or power went out of this world it did two things: first, it created another place; an

One sentence puzzles me: The world was constantly speaking to Ancient Man. I do not understand why this sentence is in the past tense. The World still

we should all feel an obligation to tell stories about a human future that we actually want to be a part of.

“If you want a new world, start making it right now, in whatever you are doing.” This is the best advice I ever had, it came from Brian Eno. If you im

If something inside of you is real, we will probably find it interesting, and it will probably be universal. So you must risk placing real emotion at

Be Honest About Intentions: Clearly communicate what you can realistically commit to, avoiding overpromising.

To be capable of a care-cure relationship, with all its requisite predictability, one must therefore be free of mental confusion and balanced enough t

Winnicott places especial emphasis on reliability as a way of protecting the other from unpredictability

A sign of health in the mind is the ability of one individual to enter imaginatively and yet accurately into the thoughts and feelings and hopes and f

A sign of healthy love, therefore, is the ability to be reliable and responsible with — which is different from being resposible for — the thoughts an

It may be that we are only here to learn how to love.

If there is a fundamental challenge within these stories, it is simply to change our lurking suspicion that some lives matter less than other lives. W