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- But if we are lucky enough, if we are are stubborn enough, we love and we lose and then the loss opens us up to more love — different love, because each love is unrepeatable and irreplaceable — on the other side of grief; love unimaginable from the barren landmass of loss, love without which, once found, the world comes to feel unimaginable.
from Losing Love, Finding Love, and Living with the Fragility of It All by Maria Popova
- Unlike the prose of letters, pinned to the physical and emotional reality of the present, in poetry the imagination is allowed to travel between fact and fantasy, to traverse present, past, and future, so that the reader, and perhaps even the writer, is never quite sure—nor need ever ask—to what extent the images evoked correspond to the intersecti... See more
from Figuring by Maria Popova
- “To forgive is to assume a larger identity than the person who was first hurt,”
from The Antidote to the Irreversibility of Life: Hannah Arendt on What Forgiveness Really Means by Maria Popova
- An interview petrifies us in time, then lives on forever, the thoughts of bygone selves quoted back to us across the eons of our personal evolution — a strange and discomposing taxidermy diorama of life that is no longer living.
from Aloneness, Belonging, and the Paradox of Vulnerability, in Love and Creative Work by Maria Popova
- The frenetic worker. You keep on frantically working despite feeling overwhelmed and overloaded with work, overlooking your own needs in order to fulfil your work demands. In the words of the researchers: “The frenetic burnout type works increasingly harder, to the point of exhaustion, in search of success, and presents involvement, ambition and ov... See more
from The three types of burnout by Ness Labs
- Whatever your profile is, burnout is not necessarily just an individual experience. It can be shared, and even become contagious.
from The three types of burnout by Ness Labs
- Feminism is grounded in supporting the choices of women even if we wouldn’t make certain choices for ourselves.
from Bad Feminist: Roxane Gay on the Complexities and Blind Spots of the Equality Movement by Maria Popova
- Be aware of your body. Your body is a masterpiece of the cosmos. The consciousness of the cosmos. Do you have the capacity to appreciate the wonder that is your body? Mother Earth is in you. Not underneath, or all around you- but in you, also. Father sun is in you; you are made of sunshine. You are made of fresh air, of fresh water. To be aware of ... See more
from How do I love myself? | Thich Nhat Hanh answers questions by Thich Nhat Hanh
- 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.
from Figuring by Maria Popova