Trained equanimity and a bias toward action
Pay attention to what’s in front of you. Don’t let fear contaminate your understanding of the situation. Act with commitment. Notice the gap between event […]
Mary Oliver on the Measure of a Life Well Lived and How to Magnify Your Aliveness – The Marginalian
Few are those whose contribution to humanity — be it art, or music, or literature, or some other enchantment — fills the heart with uncontainable […]
A Tender Modern Fable about the Difficult Art of Resting at the Still Point of Enough – The Marginalian
Wanting is the menacing margin of error between desire and need. It is the blade that vivisects your serenity, the hammer that shatters your wholeness […]
“The most exciting mobile trend is full Qwerty keyboards”
The creators of the Blackberry were sure that customers loved the keyboard. That’s what they heard all day from their users, and it must have […]
The Wildest Bet Is the Winning Bet – The Marginalian
By Maria Popova We place life’s bets by countless calculations of probability, conscious and unconscious, only to discover over and over how short they fall […]
The Science of Rupture, Repair, and Reciprocity – The Marginalian
“A purely disembodied human emotion is a nonentity,” William James wrote in his pioneering 1884 theory of how our bodies affect our feelings — the […]
Puddles | Seth’s Blog
When there is motion, it creates an impact of the environment. First, the path is barely noticeable. But then, others see the hint of a […]
How a Single Mother Brought an Entire Species Back from the Brink of Extinction – The Marginalian
This essay is adapted from Traversal. “In the great chain of cause and effect,” Alexander von Humboldt wrote as he was teaching science to read […]
Poet and Potter M.C. Richards on Creativity – The Marginalian
In a recent conversation with my poetic physicist friend Alan Lightman, sparring over whether the creative spirit can be usefully divided into complementary arts and […]
Breathwork
[Off topic, but I hope it might be useful] Mindfulness can improve your life. So can stillness and spiritual grounding. This is not a post […]
