Sublime

Both through her fiction and in her diaries Butler demonstrated that no one was a nobody. To be a person in whatever place or time had value. Self-doubting, self-made, self-helped, the city-state’s prophet suffered and thrived on things found in the world and mind. Both gave her pain. Both gave her art. So be it. See to it. She found a way.

1. I know what makes people grow more reliably than anything else. It is: taking on a difficult project with some amount of public accountability. This can be large or small: a lecture series, a business, a blog, a house, a child, etc.


2. It’s strange, but I know that it’s common to resist positive emotions, as well as negative ones. Ask yours

The mind is in a dayless freak zone, surfing earth’s hurtling horizon.

moulinées

his underlying goal was to teach people that the universe was a far weirder place than they realized.

Morally Superior: Nobody likes you, but you don’t care.

Maria Popova, who writes the popular site The Marginalian (formerly Brain Pickings), spends her days reading old books and essays. She’s passionate about finding ideas, beauty, and wisdom in these texts and then connecting them in her own unique conversation with the world.

In the three-dimensional world of the deep ocean, above and below matter as much as in front and behind.