Anne Sexton On Welcome Morning
Anne Sexton (November 9, 1928 – October 4, 1974) There is joy in all: in the hair I brush each morning, in the Cannon towel,…
Martha Nussbaum On Inner Experience
Martha Nussbaum (May 06, 1947 -) Do not despise your inner world... Our society is very outward-looking, very taken up with the latest new object,…
David Stephen Mitchell On Midlife
David Stephen Mitchell (January 12, 1969 -) Midlife crisis. Age. The heart gets more interesting than structure. I've got kids, I've got a wife, we're…
Walt Whitman On Being
Walt Whitman (May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) The quality of being, in the object’s self, according to its own central idea and purpose,…
Aldous Huxley On Enlightenment
Aldous Huxley (July 26, 1894 – November 22, 1963) To be enlightened is to be aware always of total reality in its emanate otherness. To…
Rebeca West On The Universe
Rebecca West (December 21. 1892 – March 15, 1983) If during the next million generations there is but one human being born in every generation…
Jean Houston On Entelechy
Jean Houston (May 10, 1937 -) It is inside of you, like the butterfly is inside of the caterpillar. He then used a word that…
