Self Aware

You know it, that awful moment your coherent self-image shatters and a part of you, shadowy and untended, splits off…

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“What exists, exists so that it can be lost and become precious,” Lisel Mueller wrote in her short, stunning poem…

“Attempt what is not certain. Certainty may or may not come later. It may then be a valuable delusion,” the…

“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales,” Einstein reportedly told one mother who wished for…

The current of life is charged by the poles of hope and despair. What we make of our hopes and…

“Enough is so vast a sweetness, I suppose it never occurs, only pathetic counterfeits,” Emily Dickinson sighed in one of…

If the ancient Arab world had closed its gates to foreign travelers, we would have no medicine, no astronomy, and…

Nothing kidnaps our capacity for presence more cruelly than longing. And yet longing is also the most powerful creative force…

“We cannot deeply love anything without becoming vulnerable to loss,” Judith Viorst wrote in her defense of life’s necessary losses,…