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Be Like Water: The Philosophy and Origin of Bruce Lee’s Famous Metaphor for Resilience “In order to control myself I must first accept myself by going with and not against my nature.”

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#TheMarginalian #BruceLee

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Words: Pablo Neruda’s Love Letter to Language “Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer… feed understanding or emotion back and forth and amplify it,” Ursula K. Le Guin wrote. Wo…

This essay is pure food for anyone who writes, reads, or hoards favorite words.

Words: Pablo Neruda's Love Letter to Language www.themarginalian.org/2025/11/05/n...

#TheMarginalian #PabloNeruda #Poetry #CreativeWriting #LanguageLover #Reading #BookTok

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How to Live Fully: Ursula K. Le Guin’s Remedy for Our Resistance to Change The most assuring thing about life is that we can change, that things can change, that they are always changing. The most maddening is that despite living in a universe that is one constant transmu…

Posting an essay that hit a nerve today:

On why we cling to stasis and how to move with change instead of against it.

If you read it, I’d love to hear one line that stayed with you.

#TheMarginalian #Creativity #Philosophy #Books #UrsulaKLeGuin #PersonalGrowth #MentalHealth #Essay #SciFi #SFF

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Trial, Triumph, and the Art of the Possible: The Remarkable Story Behind Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” A hymn of rage, a hymn of redemption, and a timeless love letter to the possible.

#Music #TheMarginalian
#OdeToJoy
www.themarginalian.org/2022/05/17/b...

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15 octobre 1844, naissance du philosophe Nietzsche: «Qu'est-ce qui rend héroïque ? Aller en même temps au-devant de sa plus grande douleur et de son plus grand espoir» https://limportant.fr/infos-culture/6/623411 #themarginalian

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Piccaso: «Pour savoir ce que l'on va dessiner, il faut commencer à dessiner… Quand je me retrouve face à une page blanche, j'ai toujours cela en tête. Ce que je capture malgré moi m'intéresse plus que mes propres idées» https://limportant.fr/infos-culture/6/621206 #themarginalian

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Music, the Neural Harmonics of Emotion, and How Love Recomposes the Brain “Who we are and who we become depends, in part, on whom we love.”

#TheMarginalian

www.themarginalian.org/2021/12/04/g...

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Viktor Frankl on the Human Search for Meaning “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”

#TheMarginalian
www.themarginalian.org/2013/03/26/v...

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Mushrooms and our search for meaning (an Orion special), Oliver Sacks on the 100 milliseconds between the world and you, Whitman on owning your life

Who wd we be if our “artificial” intelligence turned natural, built on the nonbinary logic of symbiosis, restoring the unity of life into a perfect circle with no sides to take?'
#MariaPopova #TheMarginalian
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"When the caterpillar tells Alice that one side of the mushroom would make her smaller and the other taller, Alice is stupefied by how something perfectly round can have sides, how a single thing can produce such opposite effects."
#TheMarginalian

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If you have a poet's soul, you will love The Marginalian. It's an absolute breath of beauty and kindness. We need all the love our hearts can hold right now. #TheMarginalian #philosophy #poetry #WaltWhitman #art #beauty #humanity #kindness #love

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Edward Abbey on How to Live and How to Die: Immortal Wisdom from the Park Ranger Who Inspired Generations The summer after graduating high school, knowing he would face conscription into the military as soon as his eighteenth birthday arrived, Edward Abbey (January 29, 1927–March 14, 1989) set ou…

Give yourself a Sunday sanity break from the horrible headlines.

Read an installation of Maria Popova’s weekly restorative, #TheMarginalian, whose brilliant essays refresh the mind and release the heart to stretch and soar far above the current shit storm news cycle.

Then go for a walk.

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This is a time when it is frightening to be alive, when it is hard to think of human beings as rational creatures. ~ Rebecca Solnit #deadgirlwalking #death #life #fear #hope #themarginalian #walkyourselfwell #mentalhealth #recovery #blacknwhitephotography #rebeccasolnitquotes

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The longer post from #TheMarginalian that this quote originally comes from is here: www.themarginalian.org/2015/02/09/h...

I love that Maria shares a pertinent article from her 18-year archive in her Wednesday newsletter; this article was emailed out today: www.themarginalian.org/2018/02/08/z...

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#Cloud vortices off the north-west coast of #Africa captured by astronauts repairing the #Hubble #Space Telescope in 2010. #Photograph via #PaulMorris / #CloudAppreciationSociety
#Sky #Language #TheMarginalian

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Lovely essay by @mariapopova.bsky.social. How to have #enough when everyone else seems to want more. #TheMarginalian

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Whew, @mariapopova.bsky.social just got me with her #TheMarginalian today:
"Bless paper for the way it can kindle a campfire and a revolution..."
Strong recommend reading today's if you're feeling a little down.

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Leonard Cohen on the Antidote to Anger and the Meaning of Resistance One of the commonest and most corrosive human reflexes is to react to helplessness with anger. We do it in our personal lives and we do it in our political lives. We are living through a time of un…

www.themarginalian.org/2024/07/18/l...

#themarginalian #mariapopova #leonardcohensos1995 #poetryofprotest #poetryofresistance

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“Solitude comes to us if we have within us the magic stone that attracts destiny.” Herman Hesse #deadgirlwalking #death #life #solitude #natureashealer #naturephotography #beachlife #mentalhealth #mentalwellbeing #therapeuticphotography #recovery #hermanhesse #themarginalian

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This beautifully crafted newsletter is a lifeline with curiosity branches a plenty.
Thank you for the weekly gift of inspiration and hope @mariapopova.bsky.social
#TheMarginalian

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Via #themarginalian

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“Words are events, they do things, they change things. They transform both the speaker and the hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it. They feed understanding or emotion back and forth and amplify it. “
Ursula K Guin via The #TheMarginalian. #mariapopova

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A Parliament of Owls and a Murder of Crows: How Groups of Birds Got Their Names, with Wondrous Vintage Illustrations by Brian Wildsmith Language is an instrument of great precision and poignancy — our best tool for telling each other what the world is and what we are, for conveying the blueness of blue and the wonder of being…

The evolution of words is intriguing, none more so than the collection nouns for birds. I especially like the ‘watch of nightingales.’ www.themarginalian.org/2024/01/04/b... #Author #Writers #Bird #BlueSky #BookSky #LiteraryCommunity #WritingAndBooks #WritersNetwork #TheMarginalian #WritingCommunity

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The Pleasure of Being Left Alone “An exquisite peace obtains: a drowsy, golden peace, flowing honey-sweet over my dwelling, soaking it, dripping like music from the walls… A peace for gods; a divine emptiness.”

On the pleasure of being alone, by #MariaPopova at #TheMarginalian

www.themarginalian.org/2024/06/13/r...

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The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows: Uncommonly Lovely Invented Words for What We Feel but Cannot Name “Despite what dictionaries would have us believe, this world is still mostly undefined.”

El diccionario de las palabras innombrables
(Via #MariaPopova #TheMarginalian)

www.themarginalian.org/2024/04/12/d...

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James Baldwin’s Advice on Writing “Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but most of all, endurance.”

"When you’re writing, you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know. The whole language of writing for me is finding out what you don’t want to know, what you don’t want to find out. But something forces you to anyway."
#themarginalian #jamesbaldwin #amwriting

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#themarginalian "To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool."
Octavia Butler on how (not) to choose our leaders twitter.com/brainpicker/...

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