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Card from An Almanac of Birds: 100 Divinations for Uncertain Days

#birds #birding #summer redbird #poetry #collage

To love without knowing how to love wounds the person we love.

The great Zen teacher Thich Nhat Hanh on how to love.

#love #Thich Nhat Hanh #advice #quote

Street library divinations – searching for the meaning of life in found books.

#books #lit #poetry #collage #remix #little free library #love #friendship

Card from An Almanac of Birds: 100 Divinations for Uncertain Days.

#maria popova #bird divinations #birding #poetry #collage #birds #john james audubon

The meaning of life… clearly has to do with love — what and whom and how one can love.

Oliver Sacks, who would have been 93 today, on despair and the meaning of life.

#oliver sacks #quote #love

Card from An Almanac of Birds: 100 Divinations for Uncertain Days.

#Maria Popova #birds #birding #poetry #john james audubon #hummingbird

1. Live as well as you dare.

20 ways of surfacing from the blues – Sydney Smith's 200-year-old strategies for raising low spirits, in a letter of advice to a teenage girl.

#letters #advie #Sydney Smith #lit #lists

Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily.

The samurai guide to living fully

#samurai #Yamamoto Tsunetomo #Japan

Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing isn’t hard to master. Then practice losing farther, losing faster...

The art of losing and the art of beckoning love back – the story behind one of the greatest poems ever written.

#Elizabeth Bishop #poetry #love #LGBT #lit

Card from An Almanac of Birds: 100 Divinations for Uncertain Days.

#birds #collage #poetry #blue #maria popova

No one you love is ever dead.

Hemingway on how to live through loss and the meaning of life.

#Ernest Hemingway #death #loss #bereavement #lit

The violinist who solved the ancient riddle of how the world holds together

#Marie Tharp #geology #Traversal #Maria Popova #cartography #Earth science #history #women's history #plate tectonics

Solitude is not chosen, any more than destiny is chosen. Solitude comes to us if we have within us the magic stone that attracts destiny.

Nobel laureate Hermann Hesse, born on this day in 1877, on solitude, the value of hardship, and how to find your destiny.

#Hermann Hesse #lit #quote #solitude

Every thought that has ever passed through your brain was made possible by plants.

The new science of plant intelligence and the mystery of what makes a mind.

#science #plant intelligence #plants #nature #vegan

The vast marvel is to be alive… The supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive. Whatever the unborn and the dead may know, they cannot know the beauty, the marvel of being alive in the flesh.

D.H. Lawrence on how to be a living unison

#d.h. lawrence #quote #lit

Diatoms and the meaning of life

#science #diatoms #microbiology #marine biology #blue #vintage science illustration #natural history #Adolf Schmidt

It isn’t a location within time at all, but what makes time possible. Now is nature itself: the experienced, evolving universe within which all time, and all life, is held.

Absolutely fascinating read on the elusive science of what the moment is made of and how it makes you who you are.

#science #physics #philosophy #time #Jo Marchant

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