Maria Popova
Writer and founder of The Marginalian (formerly Brain Pickings), a long-running reader-funded blog on books, science, art and philosophy.
Archives of Joy: Reflections on Animals and the Nature of Being by Jean-François Beauchemin
The secret pulse-beat of joy is what Jean-François Beauchemin explores in Archives of Joy: Reflections on Animals and the Nature of Being
on themarginalian.org · 19 Dec 2023 · Report
Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier by Kevin Kelly
That is precisely what Kevin Kelly gathers in Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier
on themarginalian.org · 19 Dec 2023 · Report
How to Say Goodbye by Wendy MacNaughton
How to move through it is what my talented friend and sometime-collaborator Wendy MacNaughton explores in How to Say Goodbye
on themarginalian.org · 19 Dec 2023 · Report
Leaning toward Light: Poems for Gardens by Tess Taylor
The garden as a place of reverence and responsibility, a practice of ample creative and spiritual rewards, comes alive in Leaning toward Light: Poems for Gardens
on themarginalian.org · 19 Dec 2023 · Report
Notes on Complexity: A Scientific Theory of Connection, Consciousness, and Being by Neil Theise
the Buddhist scientist Neil Theise endeavors to bridge the mystery out there with the mystery of us
on themarginalian.org · 19 Dec 2023 · Report
The Asking by Jane Hirshfield
For half a century, Jane Hirshfield has been slaking the world's soul on poems of perspective and consolation, fusing her Buddhist training, her passion for science, and her tenderness for all things living.
on themarginalian.org · 19 Dec 2023 · Report
The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality by Andy Clark
That is what cognitive philosopher Andy Clark explores in The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality
on themarginalian.org · 19 Dec 2023 · Report
The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise by Pico Iyer
With soulful curiosity channeled in his ever-lyrical prose, Pico Iyer chronicles a lifetime of pilgrimages to some of Earth's greatest shrines to that longing in The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise
on themarginalian.org · 19 Dec 2023 · Report
The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality by William Egginton
These are the immense and intimate questions William Egginton takes up in The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality
on themarginalian.org · 19 Dec 2023 · Report
The Transcendent Brain: Spirituality in the Age of Science by Alan Lightman
the poetic physicist Alan Lightman sets out to illuminate how these atomic constellations can be capable of such exultant spiritual experiences
on themarginalian.org · 19 Dec 2023 · Report
What Looks Like Bravery by Laurel Braitman
She tells the story of those difficult, transformative learnings in What Looks Like Bravery
on themarginalian.org · 19 Dec 2023 · Report
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