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The Marginalianby Maria Popova26d ago
A Beginning, Not a Decline: Colette on the Splendor of Autumn and the Autumn of Life By Maria Popova The weather has seeded our earliest myths, inspired some of our greatest art, and even affects...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova26d ago
The Day Dostoyevsky Discovered the Meaning of Life in a Dream By Maria Popova One November night in the 1870s, legendary Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky (November 11, 1821–February 9, 1881)...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova27d ago
Why Leaves Change Color and How We Become Who We Are: The Science of Chlorophyll and the Poetics of Personhood By Maria Popova Autumn is the season of ambivalence and reconciliation, soft-carpeted...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova27d ago
The Unspeakable World: Alan Watts on How to Touch the Pulse of Life By Maria Popova What makes life so disorienting is that its greatest revelations and greatest transformations are inarticulable.
The Marginalianby Maria Popova27d ago
Albert Camus on the Source of Strength and How to Save Our Sanity in Trying Times By Maria Popova In 1957, Albert Camus (November 7, 1913–January 4, 1960) became the second youngest laureate of the...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova28d ago
The New Science of Plant Intelligence and the Mystery of What Makes a Mind By Maria Popova “A leaf of grass is no less than the journey work of the stars,” Walt Whitman wrote a decade before Darwin...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova29d ago
The Paradoxes and Possibilities of Transformation: Adam Phillips on Our Ambivalent Desire for Change By Maria Popova When answering the Orion questionnaire, a question stopped me up short by...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova8 Sept 2026
Kahlil Gibran on the Courage to Weather the Uncertainties of Love By Maria Popova “Love is the quality of attention we pay to things,” poet J.D.
The Marginalianby Maria Popova8 Sept 2026
How to Break Free from the Tyranny of Certainty: The Japanese Concept of “Ma” By Maria Popova “Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous ‘I don’t know,'” the Polish poet Wisława...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova7 Sept 2026
How Not to Waste Your Wildness By Maria Popova Once, while writing my first book, I lived on a lush volcanic island balding with so-called civilization, lawnmowers muffling its birdsong to turn its...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova7 Sept 2026
Polyvagal Theory and the Neurobiology of Connection: The Science of Rupture, Repair, and Reciprocity By Maria Popova “A purely disembodied human emotion is a nonentity,” William James wrote in his...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova7 Sept 2026
I Long to Read More in the Book of You: Moomins Creator Tove Jansson’s Tender and Passionate Letters to the Love of Her Life By Maria Popova “All things are so very uncertain, and that’s exactly...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova6 Sept 2026
The True Purpose of Tarot By Maria Popova “Nothing like this has ever happened before or will ever happen again,” a friend said to me about a lucky turn of events — a statement that struck me as...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova6 Sept 2026
How to Apologize: Reflections on Forgiveness, Self-Forgiveness, and the Vulnerabilities of Being Human By Maria Popova Few things in life are more painful than seeing ourselves act in ways...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova6 Sept 2026
Erich Fromm’s 6 Rules of Listening: The Great Humanistic Philosopher and Psychologist on the Art of Unselfish Understanding By Maria Popova “An experience makes its appearance only when it is being...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova5 Sept 2026
How to Relate to Your Worst Mistakes: The Life-Shaping Difference Between Regret and Remorse By Maria Popova You know it, that awful moment your coherent self-image shatters and a part of you...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova5 Sept 2026
How Two Souls Can Interact with One Another: Simone de Beauvoir on Love and Friendship By Maria Popova It is in relationships that we discover both our depths and our limits, there that we anneal...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova5 Sept 2026
The Most Important Thing to Remember About Your Mother By Maria Popova One of the hardest realizations in life, and one of the most liberating, is that our mothers are neither saints nor saviors —...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova4 Sept 2026
How to Handle Provocation: Bertrand Russell’s Remarkable Response to a Fascist By Maria Popova “To approach someone else convincingly you must do so with open arms and head held high, and your arms...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova4 Sept 2026
The Art of Choosing Love Over Not-Love: Rumi’s Antidote to Our Human Tragedy By Maria Popova “What exists, exists so that it can be lost and become precious,” Lisel Mueller wrote in her short...
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