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Ursula K. Le Guin on Power, Freedom, and How Storytelling Expands Our Scope of the Possible “We will not know our own injustice if we cannot imagine justice. We will not be free if we do not imagine freedom. We cannot demand that anyone try to attain justice and freedom who has not …

Ursula K. Le Guin on power, freedom, and how storytelling expands our scope of the possible www.themarginalian.org/2016/05/06/u...

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The Difficult Balance of Intimacy and Independence: Beloved Philosopher and Poet Kahlil Gibran on the Secret to a Loving and Lasting Relationship “Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.”

"Love one another but make not a bond of love:
Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls."

Valentine's Day with Kahlil Gibran's century-old wisdom on the difficult balance of intimacy and independence and the secret of lasting love

14.02.2025 20:01 — 👍 19    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

Emily Dickinson’s Electric Love Letters to Susan Gilbert “Susie… come home… and be my own again, and kiss me as you used to… I hope for you so much, and feel so eager for you… that the expectation… makes me feel hot an…

#ValentinesDay with Emily Dickinson and her dazzling letters to the love of her life

14.02.2025 22:16 — 👍 26    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 2

A Brief History of the Mind in the Machine: John von Neumann, the Inception of AI, and the Limits of Logic “Something very small, so tiny and insignificant as to be almost invisible in its origin, can nonetheless open up a new and radiant perspective, because through it a higher order of being is …

A brief history of the mind in the machine – John von Neumann, the invention of AI, and how the limits of logic can liberate us

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The Parts We Live With: D.H. Lawrence and the Yearning for Living Unison “We ought to dance with rapture that we should be alive and in the flesh, and part of the living, incarnate cosmos.”

“Gods, strange gods, come forth from the forest into the clearing of my known self, and then go back... I must have the courage to let them come and go.”

Beautiful, sanity-salving read on the parts we live with:

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I'm in the market for a #shmoocon ticket, if anyone has one available.

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“Little Women” Author Louisa May Alcott on the Creative Rewards of Being Single “Liberty is a better husband than love.”

Little Women author Louisa May Alcott, born on this day in 1832, on the creative rewards of being single

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Patti Smith Sings “The Tyger” and Reflects on William Blake’s Transcendent Legacy as a Guiding Sun in the Cosmos of Creativity “The eternal loom spins the immaculate word. The word forms the pulp and sinew of innocence… William Blake never let go of the loom’s golden skein… He was the loom’s loom, spinnin…

Patti Smith on creativity, lensed through the legacy of William Blake, born on this day in 1757

28.11.2024 18:01 — 👍 16    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

Leaf in black and white with drops of water on it

For Warmth

I hold my face between my hands.
No, I am not crying.
I hold my face between my hands
to keep my loneliness warm --
two hands protecting,
two hands nourishing,
two hands to prevent
my soul from leaving me
in anger.

- Thich Nhat Hanh

From The Marginalian (run by Maria Popova)

19.11.2024 05:13 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Piglet Ears and Rabbit Holes: Sophie Blackall and Maria Popova on the 'Children’s Books That Endure' On the evening of November 12, Caldecott Medalist Sophie Blackall joined Maria Popova, author and founder of the 'Marginalian', at the Morgan Library & Museum in Manhattan for a discussion about…

Love this: Sophie Blackall and Maria Popova explore "children’s literature as springboard for empathy." via Publishers Weekly

21.11.2024 15:04 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

David Lynch describes going to to Bob’s Big Boy to drink vast sums of coffee and chocolate milkshakes

Picked up this little book of writers’ writing rituals, & I think most of em are liars — “up at dawn, 6 hours at my desk, followed by calisthenics, liquor, & reading edifying works.” But David Lynch delivers the goods.

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Maria Popova the marginalian on Paul Goodman’s the nine kinds of silence.

www.themarginalian.org/2015/01/13/p...

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