The Whole of It – The Marginalian
By Maria Popova Because we are creatures made of time, what we call suffering is at bottom a warping of ...
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Pico Iyer on Finding the World in a Benedictine Monastery – The Marginalian
The best measure of serenity may be our distance from the self — getting far enough to dim the glare ...
Doris Lessing on the Artist’s Task in Trying Times – The Marginalian
Born in present-day Iran (then Persia) months after the end of the First World War and raised on a farm ...
Beloved Italian Children’s Book Author Gianny Rodari on Creativity and the Key to Great Storytelling – The Marginalian
I was eight when I first grasped the power of storytelling. One night, my mother presented me with a book ...
The Majesty of Mountains and the Mountains of the Mind – The Marginalian
Mountains are some of our best metaphors for the mind and for the spirit, but they are also living entities, ...
Oliver Sacks on Perception – The Marginalian
“If the doors of perception were cleansed,” William Blake wrote, “everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.” But ...
An Almost Unbearably Tender Illustrated Spell Against the Curse of Not Enough – The Marginalian
Wanting is the menacing margin of error between desire and need. It is the blade that vivisects your serenity, the ...
A Vintage Treasure from Japanese Artist Keizaburo Tejima – The Marginalian
That we will never know what it is like to be another — another person, another creature — is one ...
Is Peace Possible – The Marginalian
Is Peace Possible?, originally published in 1957, is the second title in Marginalian Editions. Below is my foreword to the ...
Carl Jung on the Relationship Between Psychological Suffering and Creativity – The Marginalian
When AI first began colonizing language — which is still our best instrument for bridging the abyss between us, a ...
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