By Maria Popova
Hindsight is our most interesting instrument for discerning the patterns of our lives. To look again on a yr of studying, a yr of writing, is to find a secret map of the thoughts, revealing the panorama of dwelling — in any case, how we spend our ideas is how we spend our lives.
In accordance with the annual custom, right here is one of the best of The Marginalian in hindsight — a Venn diagram of what I most liked writing and what readers most liked studying, spanning from the outermost reaches of the universe the place physics probes the character of actuality to the innermost areas of being the place poems reckon with the truest truths.
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17 Life-Learnings from 17 Years of The Marginalian
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The Most Vital Factor to Keep in mind About Your Mom
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The best way to Love the World Extra: George Saunders on the Braveness of Uncertainty
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The Donkey and the Which means of Eternity: Nobel-Profitable Spanish Poet Juan Ramón Jiménez’s Love Letter to Life
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The Seamstress Who Solved the Historical Thriller of the Argonaut, Pioneered the Aquarium, and Laid the Groundwork for the Research of Octopus Intelligence
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The Braveness to Be Your self: Virginia Woolf on The best way to Hear Your Soul
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Enchantment and the Braveness of Pleasure: René Magritte on the Antidote to the Banality of Pessimism
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Ursula Ok. Le Guin on Change, Menopause as Rebirth, and the Civilizational Worth of Elders
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Beethoven’s “Ode to Pleasure” Delivered to Life in a Spanish Flashmob of 100 Musicians
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The best way to Bear Your Loneliness: Grounding Knowledge from the Nice Buddhist Trainer Pema Chödrön
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The Transcendent Mind: The Poetic Physicist Alan Lightman on Spirituality for the Science-Spirited
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The Double Flame: Octavio Paz on Love
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Nick Cave on the Artwork of Rising Older
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The Work of Happiness: Might Sarton’s Gorgeous Poem About Being at Dwelling in Your self
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How We Render Actuality: Consideration as an Instrument of Love
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Every thing Is Already There: Javier Marías on the Braveness to Heed Your Intuitions
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Heart of the Universe: Non-Talking Autistic Poet Hannah Emerson’s Extraordinary Poem About The best way to Be Reborn Every Day
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The Ant, the Grasshopper, and the Antidote to the Cult of Extra: A Beautiful Classic Illustrated Poem In regards to the Which means and Measure of Sufficient
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Spell In opposition to Indifference
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bell hooks on Love
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The best way to Be Extra Alive: Hermann Hesse on Marvel and the Correct Purpose of Training
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Blue Is the Coloration of Want: The Science, Poetry, and Marvel of the Bowerbird
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The best way to Bless Every Different: Poet and Thinker John O’Donohue on the Mild Inside Us and Between Us
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