How to be un-dead – Anaïs Nin and D.H. Lawrence on the key to living fully themarginalian.org/2022/11/02/ana…

Alan Watts on death, in a beautiful animated short film themarginalian.org/2012/10/31/ala…

'When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.'

John Muir, born on this day in 1838, on the transcendent interconnectedness of the universe themarginalian.org/2018/05/10/joh…

This week's highlightable delights, in one place: D.H. Lawrence on how to live with our conflicting parts, magnolias and the meaning of life, shame as a portal to self-understanding and wholeness mailchi.mp/themarginalian…

'When you realize you are mortal you also realize the tremendousness of the future. You fall in love with a Time you will never perceive.'

Gorgeous, gorgeous read: themarginalian.org/2019/02/06/ete…

'This has nothing to do with premonitions, there is nothing supernatural or mysterious about it, what’s mysterious is that we pay no heed to it.'

On the courage to heed your intuitions themarginalian.org/2023/06/16/jav…

'We can never go back... We can go forward. We can find the love our hearts long for, but not until we let go grief about the love we lost long ago... All awakening to love is spiritual awakening.'

bell hooks on love: themarginalian.org/2023/11/03/bel…

If you have ever felt like you have failed at love, here is philosopher Gillian Rose on the value of getting it wrong themarginalian.org/2023/07/13/lov…

Facts about the Moon – a poetic meditation on bearing our human losses when even the Moon is leaving us themarginalian.org/2024/04/19/fac…

Between science and magic – how hummingbirds hover at the edge of the possible themarginalian.org/2021/05/07/sy-…

Leaning Toward Light – for your spring, a posy of poems celebrating the joys and consolations of the garden themarginalian.org/2023/08/31/lea…

How to Say Goodbye – an illustrated field guide to accompanying a loved one at the end of life (which we will all have to do at some point, if we are lucky) themarginalian.org/2023/07/22/how…

A tender illustrated celebration of the many languages of love themarginalian.org/2023/11/16/at-…

In the Dark – a lyrical illustrated invitation to find the light behind the fear themarginalian.org/2023/12/03/in-…

Emily Dickinson on love and loss themarginalian.org/2021/05/28/emi…

Half a century ago, the economist turned Buddhist E. F. Schumacher wrote beautifully about learning to prioritize people over products and creativity over consumption – a course-correction for capitalism still not too late to make themarginalian.org/2014/07/07/bud…

'Colors are not possessions; they are the intimate revelations of an energy field... deep, resonant mysteries with boundless subjectivity... Our lives, when we pay attention to light, compel us to empathy with color.'

Beautiful read: themarginalian.org/2021/06/02/ell…

Alain de Botton on how to get over rejection and heartbreak themarginalian.org/2021/06/02/sch…

From Heisenberg to Borges, a fascinating read on how human nature (in its physics and its poetry) lenses the nature of reality themarginalian.org/2023/10/15/the…

When Breath Becomes Air – a young neurosurgeon examines the meaning of life as he faces his own death themarginalian.org/2016/01/13/whe…