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The Marginalianby Maria Popova19h ago
How to Bear Your Desolations By Maria Popova The morning after a relationship of depth and significance long bending under the weight of its own complexity had finally broken with an exhausted...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova23h ago
The Resilience of Uncertainty: How to Hold the Universe in You By Maria Popova The great mercy of life is that we can change, we can reroute, we can surprise ourselves.
The Marginalianby Maria Popova23h ago
How Do You Know That You Love Somebody? Philosopher Martha Nussbaum’s Incompleteness Theorem of the Heart’s Truth, from Plato to Proust By Maria Popova “The state of enchantment is one of...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova1d ago
Where Love Goes When It Goes By Maria Popova This is an excerpt from Traversal. Where does love go when it goes?
The Marginalianby Maria Popova1d ago
How to Bear Your Loneliness By Maria Popova “You are born alone. You die alone. The value of the space in between is trust and love,” the artist Louise Bourgeois wrote in her diary.
The Marginalianby Maria Popova1d ago
Wilderness, Solitude, and Creativity: Artist and Philosopher Rockwell Kent’s Century-Old Meditations on Art and Life During Seven Months on a Small Alaskan Island By Maria Popova Not often — a...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova2d ago
How to Hold Death and Carry Life: A Zen Master Explains Existence to a Child and Outlines the Three Essential Principles of Zen Mind By Maria Popova If death is so enormous a mystery that we remain...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova2d ago
Moonlight and the Magic of the Unnecessary By Maria Popova Every night, for every human being that ever was and ever will be, the Moon rises to remind us how improbably lucky we are, each of its...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova3d ago
How to Be a Sea: Albert Camus on Learning to Die and Learning to Live By Maria Popova The summer I turned sixteen, I took a bus across Bulgaria — I suppose you could call it running away, though my...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova3d ago
The Bird in the Heart: Terry Tempest Williams on the Paradox of Transformation and How to Live with Uncertainty By Maria Popova It is strange how, in a universe governed by relentless change, human...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova3d ago
Georgia O’Keeffe on the Art of Seeing By Maria Popova In her stunning autobiographical reflection on the moment she understood what it means to be an artist, Virginia Woolf beheld the cosmos of...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova4d ago
Nature’s Oldest Mandolin: The Poetic Science of How Cicadas Sing By Maria Popova “The use of music,” Richard Powers wrote, “is to remind us how short a time we have a body” — a truth nowhere more...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova4d ago
Wholeness and the Implicate Order: Physicist David Bohm on Bridging Consciousness and Reality By Maria Popova Life is an ongoing dance between the subjective reality of what it feels like to be...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova5d ago
The Art of Looking: Eleven Ways of Viewing the Multiple Realities of Our Everyday Wonderland By Maria Popova “How we spend our days,” Annie Dillard wrote in her timelessly beautiful meditation on...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova5d ago
How to Read the Signal of Your Life By Maria Popova Sitting atop a Spanish mesa one sweltering August night, watching the Perseid meteor showers streak the sky with the debris of a comet burning...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova5d ago
The Gentle Giant: Oliver Sacks and the Art of Choosing Empathy Over Vengeance By Maria Popova “Compassion,” Karen Armstrong wrote in her stirring meditation on the true meaning of the Golden Rule...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova6d ago
The Ocean and the Meaning of Life By Maria Popova This essay is adapted from Figuring. In June of 1952, the United States Fish & Wildlife Service received a letter of resignation from its most...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova7d ago
How Love Comes to You By Maria Popova We spend our days making plans, making promises, making predictions about the possible, and yet the most bewildering thing about life is that its imagination...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova7d ago
Constellating Wonder: Celebrating 20 Years of The Marginalian (October 23, 2026) By Maria Popova At the dawn of my twenties, lonely, destitute, and disoriented by the demands of making a new life...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova7d ago
Arundhati Roy on the Deepest Measure of Success By Maria Popova Evolution invented REM sleep, that ministry of dreams, to give us a safe way of practicing the possible into the real.
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