A—B

Abraham Lincoln On Equality And Government

Adrienne Rich On Art

Adyashanti On Happiness

Adyashanti On Spirituality

Adyashanti On “I”

Alan Alda On Truth

Alan Bennett On Reading

Alan Watts On A Happening

Alan Watts On Nature

Alan Watts On The Universe Inside Us

Albert Camus On Awareness

Aldis Hodge On Police Brutality

Aldous Huxley On The Journey

Alexandra Horowitz On Stimuli

Alice Meynell On Words

Alice Seabold On Violence

Amma (Mata Amritanandamayi Devil) On Individuals

Anne Lamott On The Journey

Anne Rice On Writing

Anne Sophie Swetchine On Love

Annie Proulx On Writing

Andrew Wyeth On Art

Antonio Damasio On Culture And Life

Anthony de Mello On Enlightenment

Anton Chekhov On Freedom

Arthur Koestler On Living

Arthur Rimbaud On My Bohemian Life

Audre Lorde On The Transformation Of Silence

August Wilson On The Blues

Barack Obama On Change

Barack Obama On Race

Baruch Spinoza On Understanding

Belkis Ayón On Art

Benjamin Franklin On Death

Ben Franklin On Permanency

Bill Brandt On Photography

Bill Hayes On Being Alive

Bill Hayes On Kindness

Bishop Desmond Tutu On Peace

Black Elk On Events

Bob Herbert On Wealth

Booker T Washington On Success

Buddha On Love

C—D

Carl Sagen On Reading

Charles Duhigg On Habits

Charles Krauthammer On Trump

Chris Van Allsburg On Christmas Magic

Christopher Morley On Books

Czesław Miłosz On Experience

Derek Walcott On Bleecker Street

Donald Hall On The Poem

Dorothy Day On Change

E—F

EE Cummings On Feelings

Elie Wiesel On Oppression

Elie Wiesel On Silence

Elizabeth Bishop on One Art

Epictetus On Choice

Eric Fromm On Life

Ernest Hemingway On Paris

Etel Adnan

Fyodor Dostoyevsky On Love

Frank Lloyd Wright On Houses

Frank Ostaseski On Birth-Death

Frank Ostaseski On Love

Franz Kafka On Art

Frederick Douglass On Reflection

G—H

Gaston Bachelard On Consciousness

George Carlin On God

George Gershwin On Music

George Orwell On Truth

Georgia O’Keeffe On Starting Over

Gwendolyn Brooks On Life

Hannah Arendt On Oblivion

Hannah Arendt On Silent Intercourse

Hannah Arendt On Totalitarianism

Harriet Tubman On Strength

Heinrich Böll On America

Helen Fisher On Love As Addiction

Henry David Thoreau On Solitude

Herman Melville On Meditation

Hokusai On Drawing

Howard Zinn On War

I—J

Ida Tarbell On Connections

Italo Calvino On Photography

Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī On Solitude

Jamaica Kincaid On Writing

James Baldwin On Freedom

James Baldwin On Poets

James Baldwin On Survival

James Broughton On Wondrous The Merge

Jane Addams On Women

Jane Kenyon On Melancholy

Jean Cocteau On Poets

Jean Jacques Rousseau On Ownership

Jenny Joseph On Growing Old

John Ashbery On Poetry

John Brennan On Donald Trump

John Cheever On Art

John Donne On Mankind

John Keats On Happiness

John O’Donohue On Inner Experience

John Quincy Adams On Books

Jorge Luis Borges On The Self

Jose Alberto Gutierrez

Joseph Brodsky On Evil

Joseph Goebbels On Lies And Hatred

Josephine Baker On Differences

Juāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī On To Live

June Singer On Security

Junichiro Tanizaki On Beauty

K—L

Karen Reyes On DACA

Katharine Weber On Loss

Kahlil Gibran On Race

Knut Hamsun On Language

Kurt Vonnegut On Life

Langston Hughes On The Weary Blues

Laurie Ann Paul On Transformation

Lauren Artress On Service

LeBron James On Race

Leo Rosten On Writing

Leslie Jonath On Poetry

Lewis Thomas On Possibilities

Lyndon B Johnson On Race

Louise Glück On Writing

Ludwig van Beethoven On Genius

Luis Cernuda On Love

Louis Menand On Poetry

M—N

Madeleine Dore On Solitude

Malcom X On Narrow-Mindeness

Marcel Proust On Disquiet

Margaret Atwood On Time

Margaret Atwood On Writing

Margaret Fuller On Music

Mark Boyle On Simplicity

Maria Mitchell On Awareness

Maria Popova On Communication

Maria Papova On Depression

Maria Papova On Memory

Marianne Moore On Poetry

Marina Umaschi Bers On Technology

Martha Nussbaum On Love

Martin L King On Injustice

Martin L King On Racism

Martin L King On Satisfaction

Martin Louis Amis On Homosexuality

Marion Milner On Experience

May Sarton On Poets

May Sarton On Solitude

Mary Oliver On Creativity

Mary Oliver On Life

Mary Oliver On Needing A Prod

Mary Oliver On The Journey

Maya Angelou On Evil

Maya Angelou On Phenomenal Woman

Melissa Pritchard On Writers And Art

MFK Fisher On Basic Needs

Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin On Immigration

Miles Davis On Taking Credit

Molly Ivins On Liberty

Mohsin Hamid On Art

Mohsin Hamid On The Great American Novel

Nadine Gordimer On Writing

Naomi Benaron On The Rwandan Genocide

Neil deGrasse Tyson On Transformation

Nikki Giovanni On Beautiful Black Men

Nimblewill Nomad On Happiness

Ntozake Shang On Magic

O—P—Q

Olivia Laing On Loneliness

Oliver Sacks On Creativity

Oliver Sacks On Ideas

Oliver Sacks On Living

Oliver Sacks On Sudden Insight

Oliver Sacks On The Sabbath

Orhan Pamuk On Remembering

Patricia Carroll-Mathes on Another Lovely Day

Pearl S Buck On Creativity

Pema Chödrön On Meditation

Philip K. Dick On Fear

Pico Iyer On Perspective

PJ O’Rourke On Humor

R—S

Rachel Carson On Writing

Rachel Licker On Climate Change

Rainer Maria Rilke On Death

Rainer Maria Rilke On Listening

Rainer Maria Rilke On Love

Ralph Ellison On Shame

Ralph Ellison On Writing

Randy Shields On Revolution

Rebecca Solnit On Hope

Richard Freynman On Imagination

Richard Wright On Hunger For Life

Robert Bly On Listening To The Köln Concert

Robert McCrum On Aging

Robert PInsky On Art And Poetry

Robert Stone On Writing

Roger Angell On Death

Sam Shepard On Endings

Sam Nunberg On Politics

Sandra Hochman On A Word

Seamus Heaney On Solitude

Seneca On Happiness

Seneca On Life

Seneca On Sorrow

Seung Sahn Soen-sa On Sameness

Sharon Olds On Diagnosis

Shirley Jackson On Inner Vision

Simone de Beauvoir On Living

Sonny Rollins On Being Human

Stanley Kunitz On Language

Stephen Dunn On Writing

Stephen Hawking On The Universe

Steve Jobs On Death

Sylvia Plath On Happiness

Sylvia Plath On Life

Sylvia Plath On Self Doubt

T—U—V

Tao Writer On Compliments

Tao Writer On Friendship And Solitude

Tao Writer On Standing Undiminished

Teju Cole On Photography

Terry Tempest Williams On Faith

The Gate Keeper Of Inspiration: Introduction — Socrates Black

The Gate Keeper Of Inspiration: Chapter One — Anaïs Nin

The Gate Keeper Of Inspiration: Chapter Two — Rainer Maria Rilke

Tim Cook On Engagement

Tom Hanks On Protests

Toni Morrison On Letting Go

Tracy K Smith On Time

Trevor Noah On Fear And Laughter

Twyla Hansen On Trying To Pray

Ursula K Le Guin On Anger And Hatred

Ursula K Le Guin On Love

Ursula K Le Guin On Perfection

Victor Frankl On Attitude

Virginia Woolf On Reading

W—X

Walt Whitman On Life

Walker Evans On Artists

Walker Percy On The Journey

Wallace Stevens On The Artist’s Task

WEB Du Bois On Racism

William Blake On The Soul

William Burroughs On Writing

William Strunk Jr On Writing

William Wordsworth On Poetry

Winnie The Pooh On Doing Nothing

Wisława Szymborska On The Moment

WS Merlin On Dew Light

Y—Z

Yuval Noah Harari On Stupidity

Zadie Smith On Race

Zinzi Clemmons On Grief

Zinzi Clemmons On Writers

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