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Life is an ongoing expedition into the brambled tendrilled wilderness of ourselves, continually stymied by all we mistake for a final destination — success, superhuman strength, the love of another.
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In praise of “the gaiety of those who have nothing more to lose and so excel at giving.”
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“And it is so simple… You will instantly find how to live.”
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“We reach forth and strain every nerve, but we seize only a bit of the curtain that hides the infinite from us.”
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What makes life so disorienting is that its greatest revelations and greatest transformations are inarticulable.
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“In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
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“Every thought that has ever passed through your brain was made possible by plants.”
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HOW TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE by Maria Popova Don’t try to wash your tired hands clean from the bloodshed of your private wars.
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“Think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.”
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The Paradoxes and Possibilities of Transformation: Adam Phillips on Our Ambivalent Desire for Change
“There is no description of a life without an account of the changes that are possible within it.”
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“Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous ‘I don’t know,'” the Polish poet Wisława Szymborska observed in her magnificent Nobel Prize acceptance speech.
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“What is wild cannot be bought or sold, borrowed or copied.
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Polyvagal Theory and the Neurobiology of Connection: The Science of Rupture, Repair, and Reciprocity
“The mind narrates what the nervous system knows.
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“I’m so unused to being happy that I haven’t really come to terms with what it involves… I feel like a garden that’s finally been watered, so my flowers can bloom.”
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“Nothing like this has ever happened before or will ever happen again,” a friend said to me about a lucky turn of events — a statement that struck me as touchingly self-negating: a recognition that life has violated her predictions about what is possible,…
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“It’s permitted to receive solace for whatever you did or didn’t do, pitiful, beautiful human.”
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“Understanding and loving are inseparable.
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You know it, that awful moment your coherent self-image shatters and a part of you, shadowy and untended, splits off to cause harm and havoc as the rest of you watches helplessly, wincing.
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It is in relationships that we discover both our depths and our limits, there that we anneal ourselves and transcend ourselves, there that we are hurt the most and there that we find the most healing.
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“It is not easy to give closeness and freedom, safety plus danger.”
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“All things are so very uncertain, and that’s exactly what makes me feel reassured,” one of the Moomins observes in Tove Jansson’s masterwork of philosophy disguised as a children’s book.
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The current of life is charged by the poles of hope and despair.
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“…only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never visited.”
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“We cannot deeply love anything without becoming vulnerable to loss,” Judith Viorst wrote in her defense of life’s necessary losses, “and we cannot become separate people, responsible people, connected people, reflective people without some losing and lea…
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In 1896, decades before Santiago Ramón y Cajal pioneered neuroscience, more than a century before Oliver Sacks showed us how perception phosphoresces in the 100 milliseconds between the world and us, half a lifetime before he was awarded the Nobel Prize,…