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"Let this darkness be a bell tower and you the bell. As you ring, what batters you becomes your strength." Treat yourself to Rilke's timeless spell for living through difficult times: themarginalian.org/2023/01/11/let…
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Wonderful wonderful read on how to navigate relationship change themarginalian.org/2024/02/11/ann…
"Behind the cotton wool is hidden a pattern... the whole world is a work of art... there is no Shakespeare... no Beethoven... no God; we are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself." One of the greatest things ever written: themarginalian.org/2015/09/09/vir…
Steinbeck's forgotten masterpiece about how to think and the art of seeing the pattern beyond the particular themarginalian.org/2022/11/09/ste…
"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe." A Muir classic: themarginalian.org/2018/05/10/joh…
The ocean and the meaning of life themarginalian.org/2021/06/07/rac…
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The Ocean and the Meaning of Life
“Contemplating the teeming life of the shore, we have an uneasy sense of the communication of some universal truth that lies just beyond our grasp… the ultimate mystery of Life itself.&…
How to criticize with kindness – the late, great philosopher Daniel Dennett on the 4 steps to arguing intelligently themarginalian.org/2014/03/28/dan…
Lights On – absolutely fascinating kaleidoscopic investigation of consciousness, the mystery of felt experience, and the fundamental music of reality themarginalian.org/2025/04/03/lig…
Figuring forward in an uncertain world themarginalian.org/2020/03/18/fig…
“You are at all times independent. This absolute freedom of the cyclist can be known only to the initiated.” An illustrated 1896 manifesto for the bicycle as an instrument of emancipation and joy themarginalian.org/2020/04/08/bic…
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