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Why You

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A self is a story of why you are you — a selective retelling of the myriad chance events between the birth of the universe and this moment ... opinions, identities, absolutisms ... The self, the place where we live, is a place of illusion ... newsletter ... .
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Dostoyevsky, Just After His Death Sentence Was Repealed, on the Meaning of Life

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“To be a human being among people and to remain one forever, no matter in what circumstances, not to grow despondent and not to lose heart — that’s what life is all about, that’s its task.” ... He was sentenced to death ... newsletter ... .
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The Art of Solitude: Buddhist Scholar and Teacher Stephen Batchelor on Contemplative Practice and Creativity

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“Here lies the paradox of solitude. Look long and hard enough at yourself in isolation and suddenly you will see the rest of humanity staring back.” ... Solitude by Maria Popova. (Available as a print.) ... You cannot switch it on or off at will ... .
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Blaise Pascal on the Intuitive vs. the Logical Mind and How We Come to Know Truth

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“The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know”. “Your intuition and your intellect should be working together… making love,” Madeleine L’Engle asserted in contemplating how creativity works ... Blaise Pascal ... .
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Darwin’s Greatest Regret and His Deathbed Reflection on What Makes Life Worth Living

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“If I had to live my life again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.” ... Charles Darwin, age 7. Portrait by Ellen Sharples, 1816 ... Charles Darwin in his later years ... donating = loving ... .
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Virginia Woolf on Self-Knowledge and the Limits of Empathy

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“We do not know our own souls, let alone the souls of others There is a virgin forest in each.” ... Those are the places we grow, and grow into — the openings that are our portals to the possible ... Virginia Woolf ... donating = loving ... .
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Albert Camus on the Three Antidotes to the Absurdity of Life

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“In a world whose absurdity appears to be so impenetrable, we simply must reach a greater degree of understanding among men, a greater sincerity.” ... Still, parse we must ... Albert Camus ... it should not become a dead end ... All I have is a voice ... .
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How We Grieve: Meghan O’Rourke on the Messiness of Mourning and Learning to Live with Loss

Image Brainpickings 10 Feb 2026
“The people we most love do become a physical part of us, ingrained in our synapses, in the pathways where memories are created.” ... Vanish by Maria Popova. (Available as a print.). O’Rourke writes. ... […] ... unimaginable. […] ... Here it was ... […] ... .
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The Great Blue Heron, Signs vs. Omens, and Our Search for Meaning

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One September dawn on the verge of a significant life change, sitting on my poet friend’s dock, I watched a great blue heron rise slow and prehistoric through the morning mist, carrying the sky on her back ... Art from An Almanac of Birds ... An acorn.
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A Life of One’s Own: A Penetrating Century-Old Field Guide to Self-Possession, Mindful Perception, and ...

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“I did not know that I could only get the most out of life by giving myself up to it.” ... Art by Jean-Pierre Weill from The Well of Being ... In the preface to the original edition, Milner admonishes. ... Art by Katrin Stangl from Strong as a Bear ... .
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Relationship Rupture and the Limbic System: The Physiology of Abandonment and Separation

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“A relationship is a physiologic process, as real and as potent as any pill or surgical procedure.” ... A quarter century ago, the pioneering immunologist Esther Sternberg began demonstrating how relationships affect our immune system ... .
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Leonard Cohen on the Antidote to Anger and the Meaning of Resistance

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One of the commonest and most corrosive human reflexes is to react to helplessness with anger. We do it in our personal lives and we do it in our political lives ... Leonard Cohen (courtesy of Leonard Cohen Family Trust) ... He writes. ... sleepyhead ... newsletter ... .
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The Blessing of Burnout: Samin Nosrat on the Faustian Bargain of Achievement and the Simple ...

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Both are cages that dehumanize the caged, negating the tessellated variousness of their personhood, the complexity of their human experience. All the while, our cultural mythos of success is skinning life of joy on the crucifix of achievement ... .
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The Story Behind Dylan Thomas’s “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” and the ...

Image Brainpickings 07 Feb 2026
“Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”. “Poetry can break open locked chambers of possibility, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire,” Adrienne Rich wrote in contemplating what poetry does ... Dylan Thomas, early 1940s ... .
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Yes to Life, in Spite of Everything: Viktor Frankl’s Lost Lectures on Moving Beyond Optimism ...

Image Brainpickings 07 Feb 2026
“Everything depends on the individual human being, regardless of how small a number of like-minded people there is on each person creatively making the meaning of life a reality in his or her own being.” ... Liminal Worlds by Maria Popova ... .

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