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We do not receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
— Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time (1913)

3w ago

We are development. We are process. We are not what we are, but what we are making of ourselves. The self is not a being but an act.

1mo ago

lennysnewsletter.com

Why a sabbatical can change everything

Understanding your tendencies doesn't just give you a lens to help choose the most suitable sabbatical; it also provides a mirror to help you see the life that warrants reexamination.

2mo ago

themarginalian.org

The Art of the Sacred Pause and Despair as a Catalyst of Regeneration

Somehow the despondency thus treated becomes pregnant with an access to new vitality. The organism needs to lie dormant whilst its latent energies are gathering strength for activity on a fresh plane. It is important, moreover, to observe that, so long as there is growth, the fresh plane is likewise a higher plane.

2mo ago

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

2mo ago

We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.

2mo ago

themarginalian.org

The Meaning of Maturity: Ursula K. Le Guin on What It Really Takes to Grow Up

They are afraid of dragons because they are afraid of freedom. There is no greater freedom than the self-permission to be entirely ourselves, an entirety we must go on embracing as it goes on expanding, goes on revealing its edges and its shadows.

3mo ago

The mind, once stretched by a new experience, never returns to its original dimensions.

4mo ago

longreads.com

My Absolutely Chaotic Adventures at Sea During the Summer of 1984

Printer wrestles with the person his chaotic childhood has trained him to be—and what pieces of himself he can salvage from the wreckage.

5mo ago

themarginalian.org

Doris Lessing on How to Read a Book and How to Read the World

Read your way from one sympathy to another… Follow your own intuitive feeling about what you need.

6mo ago

honest-broker.com

My 24 Rules for Reading

I decided at age 13 that I would read books to attain wisdom—and I've kept it up ever since. I got all those other benefits—job skills, entertainment, etc.—along the way. Even more interesting, I gained a powerful but intangible benefit from these tens of thousands of hours devoted to good books.

6mo ago

honest-broker.com

My 24 Rules for Reading

I decided at age 13 that I would read books to attain wisdom—and I've kept it up ever since. Maybe that sounds absurd when mentioned so baldly. But here's the strange thing: I got all those other benefits—job skills, entertainment, etc.—along the way.

6mo ago

honest-broker.com

My 24 Rules for Reading

I decided at age 13 that I would read books to attain wisdom—and I've kept it up ever since. But here's the strange thing. I got all those other benefits—job skills, entertainment, etc.—along the way.

6mo ago

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