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Links to contemporary essays, videos, news items, many written by sociologists, psychologists, neurologists, geneticists and philosophers 🚣🏼♂️🚣🏼♂️☀️🌴🌴🌴
Being Happy in an Endless Universe Descartes, Spinoza and Pascal emerged from their distinctive backgrounds with different temperaments & metaphysical visions. Each gave a unique account of the nature of reality & of happiness 👉🏼 @ChurchLifeND April 2024 churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/being…
In unprecedented detail a single thought has been followed as it travelled through a human brain .. all the way from inspiration to response • UC Berkeley study via @ScienceAlert sciencealert.com/neuroscientist…
‘.. open, fervent, fertile lines of flight like those of which Kerouac speaks in ‘On the Road’ .. his immense metaphorical text of freedom ..’ Anne Dufourmantelle In Praise of Risk
‘Intensity is the leap into the void’ Anne Dufourmantelle
‘Emotion is the signature of otherness. It is a sign, precisely, that there is otherness, and that the other in question is reaching us.’ Anne Dufourmantelle
Quoi de plus doux que s'évader dans sa lecture assise tout près de l'eau ? Se laisser entraîner dans l'histoire tout comme le courant doux de la rivière. Bon ça ne sera pas encore pour aujourd'hui mais bonjour et belle journée sous les cieux quels qu'ils soient... 🍀
I want to be an old timey doctor who only prescribes either "the mountains" or "the sea"
Sydney peacefulness: a gathering on Observatory Hill, near the bridge 🌳🌿🌱🕊️
‘A simple circle has since ancient times represented eternity to humans, since it has no beginning and no end .. The circle is easy to find in nature: all one has to do is toss a pebble into still water.’ Bruno Munari (📷 © Maurizio Pellegrin) nytimes.com/2012/09/17/art…
🎨 Ivan Kluin - ‘Suprematist Composition’, 1921
‘The artist must train not only his eye, but also his soul.’ Wassily Kandinsky
‘Everything starts from a dot' Wassily Kandinsky
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and…
Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack, a crack in everything .. That's how the light gets in .. Leonard Cohen
‘Philosophy … like art: the act of bringing truth into awareness.’ Maurice Merleau-Ponty
‘In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart.’ Blaise Pascal