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Robert Graves defined love as “a recognition of another person’s integrity and truth in a way that... makes both of you light up when you recognize the quality in the other.”
Maria Popova • Midweek pick-me-up: Iris Murdoch on love
If you want to know if you’ve forgotten how to marvel, try staring at something beautiful for five minutes and see where your mind goes.
Cole Arthur Riley • This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
At almost every conceivable level of our imagining, it is impossible to create a change without a discontinuity, without a moment of not knowing who we are, or what we are going to become. Rupture precedes revolution.
Donald Winnicott • Article
To be an artist is to feel life deeply, to tremble with the terrors of everything that trembles.
Maria Popova • Kafka's creative block and the 4 psychological hindrances keeping the talented from manifesting their talent; a physicist on death and the life-force
We train our focus on beauty here or there—this poem, that architecture—because it is easier than bearing witness to our own story. We begin to gravitate not toward beauty but toward illusion. In this state, you are not approaching what you seek. You are running from your own face. But this is not the way of wonder. Wonder requires a person not to
... See moreCole Arthur Riley • This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
From this I reach what I might call a philosophy; at any rate it is a constant idea of mine; that behind the cotton wool is hidden a pattern; that we — I mean all human beings — are connected with this; that the whole world is a work of art; that we are parts of the work of art.
Hamlet
or a Beethoven quartet is the truth about this vast mass that w... See more
Hamlet
or a Beethoven quartet is the truth about this vast mass that w... See more