All posts by Maria Popova
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Be Like Water: The Philosophy and Origin of Bruce Lee’s Famous Metaphor for Resilience
“In order to control myself I must first accept myself by going with and not against my nature.”...
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The Missing Piece Meets the Big O
The best children’s books, as Tolkien asserted and Sendak agreed, aren’t written for children; they are enjoyed by...
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The Art of Living
Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations remains one of humanity’s most significant and influential packets of thought on what it means...
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Trying Not to Try
How to Cultivate the Paradoxical Art of Spontaneity Through the Chinese Concept of Wu-Wei. “Our modern conception of...
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The Art of Self Renewal
“The self-renewing man … looks forward to an endless and unpredictable dialogue between his potentialities and the claims...
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What Maturity Really Means
“Any experience carried out deeply to its ultimate leads you beyond yourself into a larger relation to the...
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The Art of Stillness
“Going nowhere … isn’t about turning your back on the world; it’s about stepping away now and then...
