The remarkable story of Misuzu Kaneko, born on this day in 1911, who died at only 26 and was rediscovered decades later to become Japan's most beloved children's poet themarginalian.org/2017/03/03/are…

Notes on complexity – a Buddhist neuroscientist on the murmuration of being themarginalian.org/2023/08/27/not…

Albert Camus on the will to live and the most important question of existence themarginalian.org/2016/11/07/cam…

The parts we live with – D.H. Lawrence and the yearning for living unison themarginalian.org/2024/04/10/par…

“You are born alone. You die alone. The value of the space in between is trust and love.”

Artist Louise Bourgeois on how solitude enriches creative work themarginalian.org/2016/04/15/lou…

'The creative spirit creates with whatever materials are present. With food, with children, with building blocks, with speech, with thoughts, with pigment, with an umbrella, or a wineglass, or a torch.'

Wonderful read from a forgotten visionary themarginalian.org/2020/02/25/m-c…

Alone together – an illustrated serenade to the art of shared solitude themarginalian.org/2023/11/26/bea…

'No one can build you the bridge on which you, and only you, must cross the river of life.'

Nietzsche on how to find yourself themarginalian.org/2015/09/30/nie…

Simone Weil on the relationship between our rights and our responsibilities – doubly needed now, a century later, in our self-righteous world themarginalian.org/2016/02/03/sim…

Uses of the erotic – Audre Lorde on the relationship between eros, creativity, and power themarginalian.org/2023/08/18/use…

Roxane Gay on loving vs. being in love and the mark of a soul mate themarginalian.org/2023/10/11/rox…

Terror, tenderness, and the paradoxes of human nature – how a marmoset saved Leonard and Virginia Woolf's lives from the Nazis themarginalian.org/2023/08/16/vir…

'To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight.'

Wisdom from one of the most defiantly original people who ever lived themarginalian.org/2017/09/25/e-e…

How to stop waiting and start living – a jolt from Henry James themarginalian.org/2022/10/17/hen…

Worth revisiting often and openheartedly: The four Buddhist mantras for turning fear into love themarginalian.org/2020/12/01/thi…

Magnolias and the meaning of life themarginalian.org/2023/04/13/mag…

Seneca on overcoming fear and the surest strategy for protecting yourself from misfortune themarginalian.org/2016/02/15/sen…

Oliver Sacks on the 3 essential elements of creativity themarginalian.org/2017/11/09/oli…

Romanian philosopher Emil Cioran, born on this day in 1911, on the courage to disillusion yourself themarginalian.org/2019/02/18/emi…

Kahlil Gibran on silence, solitude, and the courage to know yourself themarginalian.org/2019/11/21/kah…