“The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives. It is within this light that we form those ideas by which we pursue our magic and make it realized.” This is the […]
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Bruce Lee on Death and What It Takes to Be an Artist of Life
“The intangible represents the real power of the universe. It is the seed of the tangible. It is living void because all forms come out of it, and whosoever realizes the void is filled with life and power and the love of all beings.” “Do you need a prod? / Do you need a little […]
Every Color of Light: A Stunning Japanese Illustrated Celebration of Change, the Sky, and the Fulness of Life
A synesthetic invitation to dance across the full span of the spectrum within and without. One of the most bewildering things about life is how ever-shifting the inner weather systems are, yet how wholly each storm consumes us when it comes, how completely suffering not only darkens the inner firmament but dims the prospective imagination […]
Nobel Laureate Louise Glück’s Love Poem to the Love of Life at the Horizon of Death
A subtle, stunning serenade to the lifelong hunger for self-love and self-forgiveness. A generation after Walt Whitman declared himself “the poet of the body and the poet of the soul,” animated by an electric awareness of how interleaved the two are — how the body is the locus of “the real I myself” — the […]
A reading list to Its 2020 presidential Elections, by the New York Public Library
Our assignment that will assist you browse the new standard is fueled by readers. To enjoy unlimited access to the journalism, subscribe now . The New York Public Library is urging visitors to see before they vote. To assist with that undertaking, librarians have accumulated a 2020 Election Reading List, together with almost 200 nonfiction and fiction […]
The Insanity of Susanna Clarke, fairy princess
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell lovers, it is a fantastic fall. Can fairies exist? To throw away us, to throw curses, to impurify our own bloodlines? Let us say yes. We’ve got artists, do not we? Sensitive kinds, therefore brittle and retreating. The very top of these look touched by means of an otherness, an […]