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In four billion years, our own star will follow its fate, collapsing into a white dwarf. We exist only by chance, after all. The Voyager will still be sailing into the interstellar shorelessness on the wings of the “heavenly breezes” Kepler had once imagined, carrying Beethoven on a golden disc crafted by a symphonic civilization that long ago made... See more
Maria Popova • Figuring
Coping with burnout
Ness Labs • The Three Types of Burnout and How to Cope With Them - Ness Labs
Labeling emotions accurately increases self-awareness and helps us to communicate emotions effectively, reducing misunderstanding in social interactions.
Marc Brackett • Permission to Feel Book | A guide to understanding emotions (EQ) for adults and children
Bad Feminist: Roxane Gay on the Complexities and Blind Spots of the Equality Movement
Maria Popovathemarginalian.org
Questions of meaning are a function of human life, but they are not native to the universe itself—meaning is not what we find, but what we create with the lives we live and the seeds we plant and the organizing principles according to which we sculpt our personhood.
Maria Popova • Figuring
The Good Luck of Your Bad Luck: Marcus Aurelius on the Stoic Strategy for Weathering Life’s Waves and Turning Suffering into Strength
Maria Popovathemarginalian.org
Stoicism and
happiness and
those who prefer their principles over their happiness, they refuse to be happy outside the conditions they seem to have attached to their happiness.
Maria Popova • The Psychology of Your Future Self and How Your Present Illusions Hinder Your Future Happiness
Hospitality means primarily the creation of a free space where the stranger can enter and become a friend instead of an enemy. Hospitality is not to change people but to offer them space where change can take place. It is not to bring men and women over to our side, but to offer freedom not disturbed by dividing lines. . . . The paradox of... See more