Brain Pickings by Maria PopovaWestern PhilosophyThe Stoic Antidote to Frustration: Marcus Aurelius on How to Keep Your Mental Composure and Emotional Equanimity When People... verified_publisherBrain Pickings by Maria PopovaThe art of tempering your fury with an infuriating existential truth. The vast majority of our mental, emotional, and spiritual suffering comes from the violent collision between our expectations and As...
Brain Pickings by Maria PopovaCultureRare Butterflies and Unsung Pollinators: Gorgeous 18th-Century Drawings by the First Artist and Naturalist to Depict the... verified_publisherBrain Pickings by Maria PopovaThe world’s first pictorial glimpse of the strange and wondrous creatures that give our planet its scent and color. A century after the self-taught German naturalist and artist Maria Merian laid the foundation...
Brain Pickings by Maria PopovaCulture Tangerine Meditation: Thich Nhat Hahn’s Simple, Profound Mindfulness Practice to Magnify Your Capacity for Joy verified_publisherBrain Pickings by Maria PopovaHow to see the universe in a small orange orb. My poet friend Marie Howe gives the students in her ecopoetry class a lovely assignment: At the outset of the semester, each young poet is asked to name animal...
Brain Pickings by Maria PopovaCulture Tangerine Meditation: Thich Nhat Hanh’s Simple, Profound Mindfulness Practice to Magnify Your Capacity for Joy verified_publisherBrain Pickings by Maria PopovaHow to see the universe in a small orange orb. My poet friend Marie Howe gives the students in her ecopoetry class a lovely assignment: At the outset of the semester, each young poet is asked to name animal...
Brain Pickings by Maria PopovaGardening Growing Through Grief: Derek Jarman on Gardening as Creative Redemption, Consecration of Time, and Training Ground for Presence verified_publisherBrain Pickings by Maria Popova“The gardener digs in another time, without past or future, beginning or end… Here is the Amen beyond the prayer.” “In forty years of medical practice,” the great neurologist Oliver Sacks wrote, “I have...
Brain Pickings by Maria PopovaSpaceMaria Mitchell’s Telescope and the Kickstarting of Popular Astronomy: The Heartening Story of the World’s First Crowdfunding... verified_publisherBrain Pickings by Maria Popova“Patient thought, patient labor, and firmness of purpose are almost omnipotent.” To be human is to live suspended between the scale of snails and the scale of stars, confined by our creaturely limitations...
