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A bite-sized Tumblr companion to @brainpickings by @brainpicker.

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Are you working – in defense of the invisible labors of creativity https://t.co/m1rgbVwXrq

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Fifty million years of wonder – paleontologist and poet Loren Eiseley (one of my all-time favorite writers!) on how to touch the magic in the mundane https://t.co/K44rlld7UF

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The "lusory attitude" necessary for playing the game of life – a forgotten philosopher's wonderful subversion of Aesop's famous fable and the grasshopper and the ant https://t.co/dhMJNAzqML

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How to be a stone – three poems for trusting time https://t.co/2OF5PLzM0F

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What it's like to be a panda, and what it tells us about our own mystery https://t.co/roFDqQwnnj

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Be Still, Life – a songlike illustrated invitation to living with presence https://t.co/cJsbTJy5We

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Edward Abbey on how to live and how to die https://t.co/a2ed8okcOJ

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The most important thing to remember about your mother https://t.co/X8Vk7qUo2s

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How to be an artist – Beethoven's touching letter to a little girl who sent him fan mail https://t.co/myZ6G2V0B1

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An antidote to the Cartesian myth of work/life balance – one artist's extraordinary letter to another about the nature of creativity https://t.co/UInegDdyRW

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The Stoic key to living with presence – Seneca on time spent vs. time wasted https://t.co/RvyIs55v9T

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How love (finally) comes to you https://t.co/LttArUgfAb

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Arundhati Roy on the deepest measure of success https://t.co/RXwmdoR6OP

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The Coziest Place on the Moon – or, how to bear your loneliness: https://t.co/Pg8gLKVBqr

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The Lighthouse Keeper – a tender illustrated meditation on what saves us https://t.co/4pjuHbqN3h

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On losing a parent (which all of us either will or have) https://t.co/qxjDwHZ1nm

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How to be a sea – Albert Camus on learning to live and learning to die https://t.co/EckE6fUnzI

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The art of losing and the art of beckoning love back – the story behind one of the greatest poems ever written https://t.co/y0iIUn2Mod

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Actuality vs. possibility and how to hear the signal of your life https://t.co/d5tQ3PUWYA

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"If you can fall in love again and again ... if you can forgive as well as forget, if you can keep from growing sour, surly, bitter and cynical, man you've got it half licked."

Henry Miller on how to grow old and remain young https://t.co/LAlPDJh9b4