Philosopher Jacob Needleman on Our Search for Meaning – The Marginalian
“The eternal problem of the human being is how to structure his waking hours,” the psychiatrist Eric Berne observed in […]
Anne Morrow Lindbergh on Embracing the Intermittency and Mutability of Love – The Marginalian
“God is Change,” Octavia Butler wrote, channeling in poetic truth the fundamental scientific fact of the universe. We know this.
Hermann Hesse on Discovering the Soul Beneath the Self and the Key to Finding Peace – The Marginalian
“To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else
Hannah Arendt, the Power of Defiant Goodwill, and the Art of Beginning Afresh – The Marginalian
“We speak of four fundamental forces,” a physicist recently said to me, “but I believe there are only two: good
Love Anyway – The Marginalian
You know that the price of life is death, that the price of love is loss, and still you watch
William James on Love – The Marginalian
Love is a giver and a plunderer, the way it both anneals the self and alters it, the way it
Uncommonly Lovely Invented Words for What We Feel but Cannot Name – The Marginalian
“Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth
José Ortega y Gasset on the Chronic Confusions of Our Longing – The Marginalian
It is a strange thing, desire — so fiery yet so forlorn, aimed at having and animated by lack. In
Nobel Laureate Louise Glück on the Door at the End of Your Suffering – The Marginalian
By Maria Popova A handful of times a lifetime, if you are lucky, an experience opens a trapdoor in your