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William James on love, Marie Howe's stunning hymn of humanity, Nick Cave reads an animated poem about black holes, eternity, and how to bear our lives
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An ecology of intimacies, Carl Jung's legacy and the countercultural courage to reclaim the deeply human in a posthuman age
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The Universe in Verse 2024: Totality (Free Livestream April 7)
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George Saunders on how to live an unregretting life, Hannah Arendt and the art of beginning afresh, Rachel Carson's lost ode to the science of the sky
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Middle age and our search for meaning, Oliver Sacks on the secret life of chocolate, moonlight and the magic of the unnecessary
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The other significant others, how to live with remorse and wrest from it defiant joy in living, Alice and the paradox of nature writing
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How emotions are made, Hermann Hesse on discovering the soul beneath the self and the key to finding peace, the Moomins on control and surrender
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When relationships change, Nick Cave on the two pillars of a meaningful life, and a poem
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Thich Nhat Hanh on true love and the 5 rivers of self-knowledge, a neurobiologist on the art of allowing change, Loren Eiseley on the miraculous
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Henry Miller on the antidote to despair, the enchanting science of cloud chambers and cosmic rays, philosopher Jacob Needleman on time and the soul
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What it's like to be an owl, sentimentality and being mortal, what makes a compassionate world
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Hermann Hesse on the two souls within us, blue glass, Virginia Woolf on illness as a portal to self-understanding
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Announcing The Universe in Verse 2024: Totality
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Love and mystery, how groups of birds got their names (\"a murder of crows,\" \"a parliament of owls\"....), what makes life alive
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A Spell Against Stagnation: John O'Donohue on Beginnings
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The Best of The Marginalian 2023, in One Place
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The Truelove, the power of a thin skin, applying the 6 principles of athletic training to writing and creative work
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Favorite Children's Books of 2023 — tender reckonings with friendship, fear, love, solitude, black holes, time, and the interconnectedness of life
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The paradox of transformative experiences, poetic ecology and the biology of wonder, the sky and the soul
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The light between us, the whyless wonder of the birds-of-paradise, Henry Miller on friendship and the relationship between creativity and community
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How to apologize, philosopher Martha Nussbaum on the litmus test for love, and an illustrated celebration of the art of shared solitude
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The deeper meanings of friendship, love, and heartbreak, the majesty and mystery of night migration, necessary losses and the art of letting go
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A tender illustrated celebration of the many languages of love, the first scientist's guide to truth, reflections on war
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Blue is the color of desire, May Sarton on generosity, Philip Glass on art, science, and the mark of a visionary
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From stardust to sapiens, bell hooks on love, a painted epic poem about the science of black holes and warped spacetime
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Alain de Botton on the qualities of a healthy mind, Lucille Clifton on how to be a living poem, the magic and mystery of murmurations
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To be a person; human nature and the nature of reality; a moving wordless story about war, hope, and keeping the light alive
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Roxane Gay on love, Nick Cave on faith and the importance of trusting yourself, an illustrated love letter to deep time and Earth's memory
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Ursula K. Le Guin on change, menopause as rebirth and the civilizational value of elders; Dostoyevsky in love; Maxine Kumin's superb poem \"After Love\"
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Alan Watts on how to own your weakness, a tender illustrated meditation on how to find and bear your inner light, and a stunning poem
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Mars and our search for meaning, Octavia Butler's advice on writing (which applies to all creative practice), an uncommon meditation on presence
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Virginia Woolf on the courage to be yourself and how to hear your soul, Milan Kundera on the power of coincidences, the half-life of hope
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A Buddhist scientist on complexity and the murmuration of being; poems celebrating gardening; a neuroscience pioneer on the spirituality of nature
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Spell against indifference, Bertrand Russell's salve for our helpless overwhelm, Camus on writing and the importance of stubbornness in creative work
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Audre Lorde on the relationship between eros, creativity, power, and joy; a watercolor ode to the courage of authenticity; Virginia Woolf vs. Hitler
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Dostoyevsky on animal rights and the deepest meaning of human love, a tender cosmic fable about living with loss, the power of the artist
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The ant, the grasshopper, and the antidote to the cult of More; Kevin Kelly's life-tested advice on living; the power of being an outsider
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Simone Weil on love, how to say goodbye, the donkey and the meaning of life
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Louisa May Alcott on the creative rewards of being single, parenting advice from Mister Rogers, the wondrous birds of the Himalayas
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Love's work and the value of getting it wrong, how to be animal (and more fully human), a tender illustrated parable of friendship
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How people change, Hermann Hesse on wonder and how to be more alive, a tender modern fable about reversing the Anthropocene
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May Sarton on the work of happiness, John Berger on the power of music, the forgotten Scottish philosopher John Macmurray on the key to wholeness
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Love and chance, the power of our expectations, the wondrous space telescope eye of the scallop
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Robert Louis Stevenson on what makes life worth living, William James on the art of connection, Richard Jefferies on nature as prayer for presence
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The paradox of free will, artist René Magritte on the courage of enchantment, physicist David Bohm on wholeness
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Alain de Botton on the challenge of closeness, John Steinbeck on what we look for when we are looking, Ada Limón's stunning love poem to life
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May Sarton on the art of living alone, a 17th-century antidote to fear in love, pioneering psychoanalyst Karen Horney on the key to self-realization
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Matter and our search for meaning, attention as an instrument of love, Beethoven's \"Ode to Joy\" brought to life in a Spanish flashmob of 100 musicians
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Octavio Paz on love, Maya Angelou on writing, Oliver Sacks on ChatGPT 30 years before ChatGPT
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Let your heart be broken, a stunning century-old field guide to secular transcendence and seeing the heart of reality, Henry James on losing a mother
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Midweek pick-me-up: An antidote to the irreversibility of life — Hannah Arendt on what forgiveness really means
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Nick Cave's advice on life, May Sarton on writing and gardening, Thoreau on living through loss
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How to love the world more: George Saunders on the courage of uncertainty; magnolias and the meaning of life; the art of lying fallow
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Jealousy and its antidote, the key to joy, Kahlil Gibran on the art of growing older
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Lichens and the meaning of life, the remedy for creative block and existential stuckness, May Sarton on grieving a pet
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The value of mistakes, an introvert's field guide to friendship, how to cultivate your talent
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How to bear your loneliness, spirituality for the science-spirited, and 2,000 years of kindness
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How to grow re-enchanted with the world and counter burnout, the Dalai Lama's advice to the young, the story of the world's first seed bank
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How to survive hopelessness, Einstein on free will and the power of the imagination, our search for meaning in the age of AI
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Bertrand Russell on the secret of happiness, Leonard Cohen on what makes a saint, a soulful meditation on life with and liberation from depression
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If you fail at love; May Sarton's stunning poem about the relationship between presence, solitude, and love; the psychology of self-deception
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Nick Cave on the art of growing older, Pico Iyer on our search for the sacred, uncommonly beautiful 19th-century Scottish illustrations of birds
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Emerson on the nature of genius, how a redwood tree brought humanity together in the middle of a World War, a forgotten revolutionary of intelligence
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Lewis Hyde on work vs labor and what keeps the creative spirit alive; how a forgotten woman turned loneliness and loss into wonder; rootedness and God
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Ram Dass on the spiritual lessons of trees and how to be less harsh with yourself (and others); Elie Wiesel on the antidote to overwhelm; on wonder
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The neurophysiology of enchantment and how music moves us, Rilke's timeless spell for living through difficult times, the vital thing about mothers
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John Steinbeck on the true meaning and purpose of hope, Lynn Margulis on symbiosis and the unself, Richard Powers on our cosmic luck
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May Sarton on how to live with tenderness in a harsh world, Nick Cave on the antidote to our helplessness, the seamstress who solved a science mystery
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Love, music, solitude, and how to be more alive — the best of The Marginalian 2022, in one place
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#385: Getting Ready For 2023!
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Ram Dass on love, music and the price of what we cherish, Herbie Hancock's antidote to burnout
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The Universe in Verse 2022: free holiday broadcast
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What is time? 200 years of ravishing reflections, from Kierkegaard to Borges to Nina Simone; Margaret Wise Brown's radical life, illustrated; and more
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D.H. Lawrence on attention and the art of divination, Nathaniel Hawthorne on parenting, how a psychedelic mushroom may have inspired the Santa legend
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Uncommon presents from the past — gifts for the science-lover and nature-ecstatic in your life, benefitting The Nature Conservancy
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Storytelling and the art of tenderness, David Bowie on creativity and his advice to artists, the poetic science of the aurora borealis
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John Steinbeck on how to think better, the fascinating science of mushrooms and music, Jack Kerouac's love letter to November
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Nick Cave on music, mystery, and the relationship between vulnerability and freedom; how to be a swimmer in the stream of time; sublime botanical art
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How to be un-dread — Anaïs Nin and D.H. Lawrence on the key to living fully; C.S. Lewis on our task in troubled times; the woman who saved native song
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Relationship repair and what true forgiveness takes, Sylvia Plath's ode to the tenacity of the creative spirit, women holding things
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16 life-learnings from 16 years of The Marginalian (and the untold origin story)
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Nick Cave on self-forgiveness and creativity, how to stop waiting and start living — a jolt from Henry James — and more
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Music and the body, pioneering aviator Beryl Markham on night and the wisdom of solitude
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How to make the best of life, M.C. Escher on loneliness and creativity (with a side of Bach and Rachel Carson), and an apple meditation
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\"Goodnight Moon\" author Margaret Wise Brown's little-known philosophical children's book about love and loss, a two-wheel story of the world, and more
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Emerson on how to trust yourself and what solitude really means, Henry Miller on the secret to growth in art and in life, a Victorian prophecy of AI
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Color and consciousness; superb advice on growing old, growing young, and becoming your fullest self; an invitation to unselfing