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Necessary Losses: The Life-Shaping Art of Letting Go
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service
November 27th, 2023 (INSPIRATIONAL | No Comments »)
Lucille Clifton on the Balance of Intellect and Intuition in Creative Work and the Healing Power of Connection
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service
November 20th, 2023 (INSPIRATIONAL | No Comments »)
Alain de Botton on the Qualities of a Healthy Mind
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service
November 13th, 2023 (INSPIRATIONAL | No Comments »)
How the Forgotten Prodigy William James Sidis Presaged the Quantum Undoing of Time and Thermodynamics
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service
November 6th, 2023 (INSPIRATIONAL | No Comments »)
Dear Dove
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service
October 30th, 2023 (INSPIRATIONAL | No Comments »)
How to Own Your Weakness: Alan Watts on the Confucian Concept of Jen and the Dangers of Self-Righteousness
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service
October 23rd, 2023 (INSPIRATIONAL | No Comments »)
“Little Prince” Author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the Sahara Desert, and the Meaning of Life
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service
October 16th, 2023 (INSPIRATIONAL | No Comments »)
The Geometry of Grief: A Mathematician on How Fractals Can Help Us Fathom Loss and Reorient to the Ongoingness of Life
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service
October 9th, 2023 (INSPIRATIONAL | No Comments »)
Winner? Winners!
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service
October 2nd, 2023 (FOOD FOR THOUGHT | No Comments »)
International Day of Peace –> 21 September
Prof. Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service
September 25th, 2023 (INSPIRATIONAL | 2 Comments »)
How to Live in Light: A Blind Hero of the French Resistance on Seeing the Heart of Life and Contacting the Oneness of Being
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service
September 18th, 2023 (INSPIRATIONAL | No Comments »)
What Makes You Makes the Universe: Nobel Laureate Erwin Schrödinger on Quantum Physics, Vedanta, and the Ongoing Mystery of What We Are
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service
September 11th, 2023 (INSPIRATIONAL | No Comments »)
Cultural Differences
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service
September 4th, 2023 (INSPIRATIONAL | No Comments »)
Dostoyevsky on Animal Rights and the Deepest Meaning of Human Love
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service
August 28th, 2023 (INSPIRATIONAL | No Comments »)
How to Keep Criticism from Sinking Your Soul: Walt Whitman and the Discipline of Creative Confidence
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service
August 7th, 2023 (INSPIRATIONAL | No Comments »)
Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet: On Giving
Kahlil Gibran - TRANSCEND Media Service
July 31st, 2023 (INSPIRATIONAL | No Comments »)
Internal Beauty
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service
July 24th, 2023 (INSPIRATIONAL | No Comments »)
A Shelter in Time: John Berger on the Power of Music
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service
July 17th, 2023 (INSPIRATIONAL | No Comments »)
The Universe and the Soul: Richard Jefferies on Nature as Prayer for Presence
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service
July 10th, 2023 (INSPIRATIONAL | No Comments »)
Fifteen Useful Facts
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service
July 3rd, 2023 (INSPIRATIONAL | No Comments »)
The Art of Human Connection: Pioneering Psychologist and Philosopher William James on the Most Important Attitude for Relationships
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service
June 26th, 2023 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on The Art of Human Connection: Pioneering Psychologist and Philosopher William James on the Most Important Attitude for Relationships)
Tao Te Ching on Peace and Nonviolence (5)
Lao Tzu – TRANSCEND Media Service
June 19th, 2023 (INSPIRATIONAL | 1 Comment »)
A New Refutation of Time: Borges on the Most Paradoxical Dimension of Existence
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service
June 19th, 2023 (FOOD FOR THOUGHT | Comments Off on A New Refutation of Time: Borges on the Most Paradoxical Dimension of Existence)
A Memorial Day to Remember What, Exactly?
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service
June 12th, 2023 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on A Memorial Day to Remember What, Exactly?)
Tao Te Ching on Peace and Nonviolence (4)
Lao Tzu – TRANSCEND Media Service
June 5th, 2023 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on Tao Te Ching on Peace and Nonviolence (4))
Consciousness – Viññana Sutta
Buddha Sutra – TRANSCEND Media Service
June 5th, 2023 (SPIRITUALITY | Comments Off on Consciousness – Viññana Sutta)
Tao Te Ching on Peace and Nonviolence (3)
Lao Tzu – TRANSCEND Media Service
May 29th, 2023 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on Tao Te Ching on Peace and Nonviolence (3))
Tao Te Ching on Peace and Nonviolence (2)
Lao Tzu – TRANSCEND Media Service
May 15th, 2023 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on Tao Te Ching on Peace and Nonviolence (2))
Tao Te Ching on Peace and Nonviolence (1)
Lao Tzu – TRANSCEND Media Service
May 8th, 2023 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on Tao Te Ching on Peace and Nonviolence (1))
Dostoyevsky on Animal Rights and the Deepest Meaning of Human Love
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service
May 1st, 2023 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on Dostoyevsky on Animal Rights and the Deepest Meaning of Human Love)
Jung on Evil
Carl Jung - TRANSCEND Media Service
April 24th, 2023 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on Jung on Evil)
An Introvert’s Field Guide to Friendship: Thoreau on the Challenges and Rewards of the Art of Connection
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service
April 17th, 2023 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on An Introvert’s Field Guide to Friendship: Thoreau on the Challenges and Rewards of the Art of Connection)
How to Bear Your Loneliness: Grounding Wisdom from the Great Buddhist Teacher Pema Chödrön
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service
April 10th, 2023 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on How to Bear Your Loneliness: Grounding Wisdom from the Great Buddhist Teacher Pema Chödrön)
2,000 Years of Kindness
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service
April 3rd, 2023 (SPIRITUALITY | Comments Off on 2,000 Years of Kindness)
The Transcendent Brain: The Poetic Physicist Alan Lightman on Spirituality for the Science-Spirited
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service
March 27th, 2023 (SCIENCE - SPIRITUALITY | Comments Off on The Transcendent Brain: The Poetic Physicist Alan Lightman on Spirituality for the Science-Spirited)
(Português) A Importância Fundamental da Vida do Espírito
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service
March 27th, 2023 (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES | Comments Off on (Português) A Importância Fundamental da Vida do Espírito)
How to Survive Hopelessness
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service
March 27th, 2023 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on How to Survive Hopelessness)
Bertrand Russell on the Secret of Happiness
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service
March 20th, 2023 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on Bertrand Russell on the Secret of Happiness)
Against the Cult of Originality: Emerson on the True Nature of Genius
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service
March 13th, 2023 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on Against the Cult of Originality: Emerson on the True Nature of Genius)
Artistic Perfection…
Arthur Compton, Nobel Physics Laureate - TRANSCEND Media Service
March 13th, 2023 (SPIRITUALITY | Comments Off on Artistic Perfection…)
How to Be with Each Other’s Suffering: Elie Wiesel on the Antidote to Our Paralysis in the Face of World-Overwhelm
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service
February 27th, 2023 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on How to Be with Each Other’s Suffering: Elie Wiesel on the Antidote to Our Paralysis in the Face of World-Overwhelm)
How to Be Less Harsh with Yourself (and Others): Ram Dass on the Spiritual Lessons of Trees
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service
February 20th, 2023 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on How to Be Less Harsh with Yourself (and Others): Ram Dass on the Spiritual Lessons of Trees)
Rising Strong: Brené Brown on the Physics of Vulnerability and What Resilient People Have in Common
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service
February 13th, 2023 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on Rising Strong: Brené Brown on the Physics of Vulnerability and What Resilient People Have in Common)
A Winter Walk with Thoreau: The Transcendentalist Way of Finding Inner Warmth in the Cold Season
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service
February 6th, 2023 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on A Winter Walk with Thoreau: The Transcendentalist Way of Finding Inner Warmth in the Cold Season)
A Responsibility to Wonder: Pioneering Neuroscientist Charles Scott Sherrington on the Spirituality of Nature
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service
January 30th, 2023 (SPIRITUALITY | Comments Off on A Responsibility to Wonder: Pioneering Neuroscientist Charles Scott Sherrington on the Spirituality of Nature)
Faith
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service
January 30th, 2023 (INSPIRATIONAL | 1 Comment »)
Conscious Peace: World Peace Depends upon Our Collective Consciousness
William T. Hathaway – TRANSCEND Media Service
January 23rd, 2023 (NONVIOLENCE | Comments Off on Conscious Peace: World Peace Depends upon Our Collective Consciousness)
The Tragic Miracle of Consciousness: John Steinbeck on the True Meaning and Purpose of Hope
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service
January 23rd, 2023 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on The Tragic Miracle of Consciousness: John Steinbeck on the True Meaning and Purpose of Hope)
Spiritual Evolution
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service
January 9th, 2023 (SPIRITUALITY | Comments Off on Spiritual Evolution)
The Seamstress Who Solved the Ancient Mystery of the Argonaut, Pioneered the Aquarium, and Laid the Groundwork for the Study of Octopus Intelligence
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service
January 9th, 2023 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on The Seamstress Who Solved the Ancient Mystery of the Argonaut, Pioneered the Aquarium, and Laid the Groundwork for the Study of Octopus Intelligence)
The Four Desires Driving All Human Behavior: Bertrand Russell’s Magnificent Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service
January 2nd, 2023 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on The Four Desires Driving All Human Behavior: Bertrand Russell’s Magnificent Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech)
Looking Back…
Marcandangel - TRANSCEND Media Service
January 2nd, 2023 (FOOD FOR THOUGHT | Comments Off on Looking Back…)
The Four Buddhist Mantras for Turning Fear into Love–>Thich Nhat Hanh
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service
January 2nd, 2023 (SPIRITUALITY | Comments Off on The Four Buddhist Mantras for Turning Fear into Love–>Thich Nhat Hanh)
The Poetic Science of the Aurora Borealis
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service
December 19th, 2022 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on The Poetic Science of the Aurora Borealis)
Be Yourself
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service
December 5th, 2022 (FOOD FOR THOUGHT | Comments Off on Be Yourself)
A Stoic’s Key to Peace of Mind: Seneca on the Antidote to Anxiety
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service
December 5th, 2022 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on A Stoic’s Key to Peace of Mind: Seneca on the Antidote to Anxiety)
Anyway
Mother Teresa of Kolkata – TRANSCEND Media Service
November 28th, 2022 (SPIRITUALITY | Comments Off on Anyway)
Forgive Yourself
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service
November 28th, 2022 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on Forgive Yourself)
Ursula K. Le Guin on Suffering and Getting to the Other Side of Pain
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service
November 21st, 2022 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on Ursula K. Le Guin on Suffering and Getting to the Other Side of Pain)
Transcending Communicatively
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service
November 14th, 2022 (POETRY FORMAT | Comments Off on Transcending Communicatively)
Influence of Vedic Culture around the World
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service
November 14th, 2022 (SPIRITUALITY | Comments Off on Influence of Vedic Culture around the World)
Trial, Triumph, and the Art of the Possible: The Remarkable Story behind Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy”
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service
November 14th, 2022 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on Trial, Triumph, and the Art of the Possible: The Remarkable Story behind Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy”)
Be the Water…
Bruce Lee – TRANSCEND Media Service
November 7th, 2022 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on Be the Water…)
The Guest House –> Agara Sutta
Buddha Sutra – TRANSCEND Media Service
November 7th, 2022 (SPIRITUALITY | Comments Off on The Guest House –> Agara Sutta)
Act!
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service
October 31st, 2022 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on Act!)
16 Life-Learnings from 16 Years of The Marginalian
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service
October 24th, 2022 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on 16 Life-Learnings from 16 Years of The Marginalian)
Direct Link
Helen Berg - TRANSCEND Media Service
October 17th, 2022 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on Direct Link)
The Everlasting Wonder of Being: How a Cold Cosmos Kindles the Glow of Consciousness
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service
October 3rd, 2022 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on The Everlasting Wonder of Being: How a Cold Cosmos Kindles the Glow of Consciousness)
The Mirror of Enigmas: Chance, the Universe, and the Fragile Loveliness of Knowing Who We Are
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service
September 26th, 2022 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on The Mirror of Enigmas: Chance, the Universe, and the Fragile Loveliness of Knowing Who We Are)
Keith Haring on Our Resistance to Change, the Dangers of Certainty, and the Root of Creativity
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service
September 19th, 2022 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on Keith Haring on Our Resistance to Change, the Dangers of Certainty, and the Root of Creativity)
The Art of Choosing Love over Not-Love: Rumi’s Antidote to Our Human Tragedy
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service
September 12th, 2022 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on The Art of Choosing Love over Not-Love: Rumi’s Antidote to Our Human Tragedy)
The Meaning of Success
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service
September 5th, 2022 (FOOD FOR THOUGHT | Comments Off on The Meaning of Success)
Learning How to Die: Finding Meaning in the Midst of Collapse
Elizabeth West – TRANSCEND Media Service
September 5th, 2022 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on Learning How to Die: Finding Meaning in the Midst of Collapse)
Believe! You Can!
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service
August 29th, 2022 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on Believe! You Can!)
How to Keep Life from Becoming a Parody of Itself: Simone de Beauvoir on the Art of Growing Older
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service
August 22nd, 2022 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on How to Keep Life from Becoming a Parody of Itself: Simone de Beauvoir on the Art of Growing Older)
Life and Death and More Life: Leo Tolstoy on Science, Spirituality, and Our Search for Meaning
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service
August 15th, 2022 (SPIRITUALITY | Comments Off on Life and Death and More Life: Leo Tolstoy on Science, Spirituality, and Our Search for Meaning)
Difference or Similarity?
SeekethFind - TRANSCEND Media Service
August 15th, 2022 (FOOD FOR THOUGHT | Comments Off on Difference or Similarity?)
Wisdom
Creig Crippen - TRANSCEND Media Service
August 15th, 2022 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on Wisdom)
The Mouse Trap
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service
August 8th, 2022 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on The Mouse Trap)
The Bittersweet Story of the Real-Life Peaceful Bull Who Inspired Munro Leaf and Robert Lawson’s Ferdinand
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service
August 1st, 2022 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on The Bittersweet Story of the Real-Life Peaceful Bull Who Inspired Munro Leaf and Robert Lawson’s Ferdinand)
Limits of Fear
Robin Sharma – TRANSCEND Media Service
July 25th, 2022 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on Limits of Fear)
Hardships…
Unknown Author – TRANSCEND Media Service
July 18th, 2022 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on Hardships…)
The Supreme Awakening – A Review
William T. Hathaway – TRANSCEND Media Service
July 18th, 2022 (SPIRITUALITY | Comments Off on The Supreme Awakening – A Review)
Facing the Storm
Author Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service
July 11th, 2022 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on Facing the Storm)
Gandhi’s Shoes
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service
July 4th, 2022 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on Gandhi’s Shoes)
Hermann Hesse (2 Jul 1877 – 9 Aug 1962): Revolt and Enlightenment
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service
June 27th, 2022 (BIOGRAPHIES | Comments Off on Hermann Hesse (2 Jul 1877 – 9 Aug 1962): Revolt and Enlightenment)
Learned Helplessness
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service
June 27th, 2022 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on Learned Helplessness)
Angry? Careful!
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | editor – TRANSCEND Media Service
June 27th, 2022 (FOOD FOR THOUGHT | Comments Off on Angry? Careful!)
Herman Melville’s Passionate, Beautiful, Heartbreaking Love Letters to Nathaniel Hawthorne
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service
June 20th, 2022 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on Herman Melville’s Passionate, Beautiful, Heartbreaking Love Letters to Nathaniel Hawthorne)
On Learning
Rumi - TRANSCEND Media Service
June 20th, 2022 (FOOD FOR THOUGHT | Comments Off on On Learning)
Most Important
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service
June 13th, 2022 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on Most Important)
Trial, Triumph, and the Art of the Possible: The Remarkable Story behind Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy”
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service
June 6th, 2022 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on Trial, Triumph, and the Art of the Possible: The Remarkable Story behind Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy”)
Saving Lives
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service
May 30th, 2022 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on Saving Lives)
Emotional Reaction?
Bruce Lee | The Minds Journal – TRANSCEND Media Service
May 30th, 2022 (FOOD FOR THOUGHT | Comments Off on Emotional Reaction?)
Ralph Waldo Emerson (25 May 1803 – 27 Apr 1882)
American Transcendentalism Web – TRANSCEND Media Service
May 23rd, 2022 (BIOGRAPHIES | Comments Off on Ralph Waldo Emerson (25 May 1803 – 27 Apr 1882))
Logic vs Emotion
Bruce Lee - TRANSCEND Media Service
May 23rd, 2022 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on Logic vs Emotion)
How to Face the Centuries with Confidence: The Mystery of the World’s Most Majestic Tree
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service
May 16th, 2022 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on How to Face the Centuries with Confidence: The Mystery of the World’s Most Majestic Tree)
On Being Human
Unknown Author – TRANSCEND Media Service
May 9th, 2022 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on On Being Human)
The Russian Prince Turned Anarchist and Pioneering Scientist Peter Kropotkin’s Advice to the Young
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service
May 2nd, 2022 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on The Russian Prince Turned Anarchist and Pioneering Scientist Peter Kropotkin’s Advice to the Young)
Kosmos
Walt Whitman – TRANSCEND Media Service
May 2nd, 2022 (POETRY FORMAT | Comments Off on Kosmos)
Wisdom of the Day
Author Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service
April 25th, 2022 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on Wisdom of the Day)
Three for the Apocalypse
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service
April 25th, 2022 (TRANSCEND MEMBERS | 1 Comment »)
Pedagogy of Positiveness
Prof. Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service
April 18th, 2022 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on Pedagogy of Positiveness)
Singularity
Marie Howe - TRANSCEND Media Service
April 18th, 2022 (POETRY FORMAT | 1 Comment »)
Neither Victims nor Executioners: Albert Camus on the Antidote to Violence
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service
April 11th, 2022 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on Neither Victims nor Executioners: Albert Camus on the Antidote to Violence)
Stressing the Obvious
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service
April 4th, 2022 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on Stressing the Obvious)
Confession
Raymond Nat Turner | Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service
March 28th, 2022 (POETRY FORMAT | Comments Off on Confession)
Expectations…
George Bernard Shaw - TRANSCEND Media Service
March 28th, 2022 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on Expectations…)
The United Fruit Co.
Pablo Neruda, Nobel Literature Laureate - TRANSCEND Media Service
March 21st, 2022 (POETRY FORMAT | Comments Off on The United Fruit Co.)
Escaping the Trap of Efficiency: The Counterintuitive Antidote to the Time-Anxiety That Haunts and Hampers Our Search for Meaning
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service
March 21st, 2022 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on Escaping the Trap of Efficiency: The Counterintuitive Antidote to the Time-Anxiety That Haunts and Hampers Our Search for Meaning)
How the Great Zen Master and Peace Activist Thich Nhat Hanh Found Himself and Lost His Self in a Library Epiphany
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service
March 14th, 2022 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on How the Great Zen Master and Peace Activist Thich Nhat Hanh Found Himself and Lost His Self in a Library Epiphany)
The Four Buddhist Mantras for Turning Fear into Love
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service
March 7th, 2022 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on The Four Buddhist Mantras for Turning Fear into Love)
Coping with the Dark Side
Carl Jung – TRANSCEND Media Service
February 28th, 2022 (FOOD FOR THOUGHT | Comments Off on Coping with the Dark Side)
The Great Humanistic Philosopher and Psychologist Erich Fromm on Our Human Fragility as the Key to Our Survival and Our Sanity
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service
February 28th, 2022 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on The Great Humanistic Philosopher and Psychologist Erich Fromm on Our Human Fragility as the Key to Our Survival and Our Sanity)
What Happens When We Die
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service
February 21st, 2022 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on What Happens When We Die)
Dahara Sutta – Young
Buddha Sutra – TRANSCEND Media Service
February 14th, 2022 (SPIRITUALITY | Comments Off on Dahara Sutta – Young)
Listen…
Rumi – TRANSCEND Media Service
February 14th, 2022 (FOOD FOR THOUGHT | Comments Off on Listen…)
Tibetan Buddhism: Instructions for Life in the New Millennium
His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama – TRANSCEND Media Service
February 14th, 2022 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on Tibetan Buddhism: Instructions for Life in the New Millennium)
Nobel-Winning Physicist Wolfgang Pauli on Science, Spirit, and Our Search for Meaning
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service
February 7th, 2022 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on Nobel-Winning Physicist Wolfgang Pauli on Science, Spirit, and Our Search for Meaning)
(Italiano) Thich Nhat Hahn [Thay]: La morte per l’impermanenza, la vita per la pace
Cinzia Picchioni | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service
January 31st, 2022 (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES | Comments Off on (Italiano) Thich Nhat Hahn [Thay]: La morte per l’impermanenza, la vita per la pace)
Dreams, Consciousness, and the Nature of the Universe
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service
January 31st, 2022 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on Dreams, Consciousness, and the Nature of the Universe)
A Solitary Bird
St. John of the Cross – TRANSCEND Media Service
January 24th, 2022 (SPIRITUALITY | Comments Off on A Solitary Bird)
Detachment
Sujata - TRANSCEND Media Service
January 24th, 2022 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on Detachment)
James Baldwin on Resisting the Mindless Majority, Not Running from Uncomfortable Realities, and What It Really Means to Grow Up
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service
January 17th, 2022 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on James Baldwin on Resisting the Mindless Majority, Not Running from Uncomfortable Realities, and What It Really Means to Grow Up)
Carl Jung on How to Live and the Origin of “Do the Next Right Thing”
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service
January 10th, 2022 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on Carl Jung on How to Live and the Origin of “Do the Next Right Thing”)
Trust
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa - TMS Editor
January 10th, 2022 (FOOD FOR THOUGHT | Comments Off on Trust)
“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”
Socrates – TRANSCEND Media Service
January 3rd, 2022 (MEMORABLE QUOTES | Comments Off on “The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”)
Music, the Neural Harmonics of Emotion, and How Love Restrings the Brain
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service
January 3rd, 2022 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on Music, the Neural Harmonics of Emotion, and How Love Restrings the Brain)
Revengeful Attitude: How to Get Rid of It
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service
January 3rd, 2022 (TRANSCEND MEMBERS | 1 Comment »)
We Are All Strangers and Pilgrims
Lanza del Vasto – TRANSCEND Media Service
December 27th, 2021 (POETRY FORMAT | Comments Off on We Are All Strangers and Pilgrims)
Do We Dare Stop Being Afraid of Ourselves?
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service
December 27th, 2021 (TMS PEACE JOURNALISM | 1 Comment »)
May Sarton on the Cure for Despair and Why Solitude Is the Seedbed of Self-Discovery
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service
December 27th, 2021 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on May Sarton on the Cure for Despair and Why Solitude Is the Seedbed of Self-Discovery)
Prayer for Peace
St. Francis of Assisi – TRANSCEND Media Service
December 20th, 2021 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on Prayer for Peace)
Finding Our Real Spiritual Identity
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service
December 13th, 2021 (SPIRITUALITY | Comments Off on Finding Our Real Spiritual Identity)
Serenity Prayer
Reinhold Niebuhr – TRANSCEND Media Service
December 13th, 2021 (INSPIRATIONAL | 2 Comments »)
Oliver Sacks on Gratitude, the Measure of Living, and the Dignity of Dying
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service
December 6th, 2021 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on Oliver Sacks on Gratitude, the Measure of Living, and the Dignity of Dying)
Necessary Struggle
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service
December 6th, 2021 (FOOD FOR THOUGHT | Comments Off on Necessary Struggle)
Keep Doing Good in Society
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service
November 29th, 2021 (TRANSCEND MEMBERS | Comments Off on Keep Doing Good in Society)
Tao: The Way
Lao Tzu - TRANSCEND Media Service
November 29th, 2021 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on Tao: The Way)
What Makes You Makes the Universe: Nobel Laureate Erwin Schrödinger on Quantum Physics, Vedanta, and the Ongoing Mystery of Consciousness
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service
November 22nd, 2021 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on What Makes You Makes the Universe: Nobel Laureate Erwin Schrödinger on Quantum Physics, Vedanta, and the Ongoing Mystery of Consciousness)
Buddhism and Its Vedic Connections
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service
November 8th, 2021 (SPIRITUALITY | Comments Off on Buddhism and Its Vedic Connections)
Every Loss Reveals What We Are Made of: Blue Bananas, Why Leaves Change Color, and the Ongoing Mystery of Chlorophyll
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service
November 8th, 2021 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on Every Loss Reveals What We Are Made of: Blue Bananas, Why Leaves Change Color, and the Ongoing Mystery of Chlorophyll)
“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”
Mahatma Gandhi - TRANSCEND Media Service
November 8th, 2021 (MEMORABLE QUOTES | Comments Off on “You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”)
One Fine Day: David Byrne Performs His Hymn of Optimism and Countercultural Anthem of Resistance and Resilience with the Brooklyn Youth Chorus
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service
November 1st, 2021 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on One Fine Day: David Byrne Performs His Hymn of Optimism and Countercultural Anthem of Resistance and Resilience with the Brooklyn Youth Chorus)
Beloved Writers on the Mightiest Antidote to Depression
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service
October 25th, 2021 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on Beloved Writers on the Mightiest Antidote to Depression)
Nelson Mandela’s Wisdom
Nelson Mandela – TRANSCEND Media Service
October 25th, 2021 (TRANSCEND VIDEOS | 1 Comment »)
Thomas Wolfe on Ambition, Gratitude, and the True Measure of Success, in Letters to His Mother
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service
October 18th, 2021 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on Thomas Wolfe on Ambition, Gratitude, and the True Measure of Success, in Letters to His Mother)
Place, Personhood, and the Hippocampus: The Fascinating Science of Magnetism, Autonoeic Consciousness, and What Makes Us Who We Are
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service
October 11th, 2021 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on Place, Personhood, and the Hippocampus: The Fascinating Science of Magnetism, Autonoeic Consciousness, and What Makes Us Who We Are)
“Avoid the tyranny of the law. Obedience keeps the rules, but love knows when to break them.”
Anthony de Mello – TRANSCEND Media Service
October 4th, 2021 (MEMORABLE QUOTES | Comments Off on “Avoid the tyranny of the law. Obedience keeps the rules, but love knows when to break them.”)
The Secret Philosophy of Bonsai Trees
Tim Brinkhof | Big Think - TRANSCEND Media Service
October 4th, 2021 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on The Secret Philosophy of Bonsai Trees)
Bridging the Island Universes of Our Experience: Aldous Huxley on Making Sense of Ourselves and Each Other
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service
September 27th, 2021 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on Bridging the Island Universes of Our Experience: Aldous Huxley on Making Sense of Ourselves and Each Other)
White Lily
Dr Usha Roopnarain – TRANSCEND Media Service
September 20th, 2021 (POETRY FORMAT | Comments Off on White Lily)
Mary’s Room: An Animated Inquiry into the Limits of Knowledge and the Mystery of Consciousness
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service
September 20th, 2021 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on Mary’s Room: An Animated Inquiry into the Limits of Knowledge and the Mystery of Consciousness)
An Illustrated Love Letter to Rivers
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service
September 13th, 2021 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on An Illustrated Love Letter to Rivers)
Mary’s Room: A Philosophical Thought Experiment
Eleanor Nelsen | TED-Ed - TRANSCEND Media Service
September 6th, 2021 (SHORT VIDEO CLIPS | Comments Off on Mary’s Room: A Philosophical Thought Experiment)
When Did Time Really Begin? The Little Loophole in the Big Bang
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service
September 6th, 2021 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on When Did Time Really Begin? The Little Loophole in the Big Bang)
A Photograph and Its Meaning
Gary Corseri short interview with Robert Kowalczyk – TRANSCEND Media Service
August 30th, 2021 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on A Photograph and Its Meaning)
Why Time Slows down When We’re Afraid, Speeds up as We Age, and Gets Warped on Vacation
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service
August 23rd, 2021 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on Why Time Slows down When We’re Afraid, Speeds up as We Age, and Gets Warped on Vacation)
The Invention of Zero: How Ancient Mesopotamia Created the Mathematical Concept of Nought and Ancient India Gave It Symbolic Form
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service
August 16th, 2021 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on The Invention of Zero: How Ancient Mesopotamia Created the Mathematical Concept of Nought and Ancient India Gave It Symbolic Form)
Richard Dawkins on the Luckiness of Death
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service
August 9th, 2021 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on Richard Dawkins on the Luckiness of Death)
Be like a Pencil
Natarajan Ravendhran, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service
August 2nd, 2021 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on Be like a Pencil)
The Soul of an Octopus: How One of Earth’s Most Alien Creatures Illuminates the Wonders of Consciousness
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service
July 26th, 2021 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on The Soul of an Octopus: How One of Earth’s Most Alien Creatures Illuminates the Wonders of Consciousness)
Probable Impossibilities: Physicist Alan Lightman on Beginnings, Endings, and What Makes Life Worth Living
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service
July 19th, 2021 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on Probable Impossibilities: Physicist Alan Lightman on Beginnings, Endings, and What Makes Life Worth Living)
An Antidote to the Age of Anxiety: Alan Watts on Happiness and How to Live with Presence
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service
July 12th, 2021 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on An Antidote to the Age of Anxiety: Alan Watts on Happiness and How to Live with Presence)
The Mirror of Enigmas: Chance, the Universe, and the Pale Blues of Knowing Who We Are
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service
July 5th, 2021 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on The Mirror of Enigmas: Chance, the Universe, and the Pale Blues of Knowing Who We Are)
Hermann Hesse (2 Jul 1877 – 9 Aug 1962): Revolt and Enlightenment
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service
June 28th, 2021 (BIOGRAPHIES | Comments Off on Hermann Hesse (2 Jul 1877 – 9 Aug 1962): Revolt and Enlightenment)
What Really Counts
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service
June 21st, 2021 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on What Really Counts)
Comfort
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service
June 14th, 2021 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on Comfort)
The Leaking Pot
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service
June 7th, 2021 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on The Leaking Pot)
Seneca on Grief and the Key to Resilience in the Face of Loss: An Extraordinary Letter to His Mother
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service
May 31st, 2021 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on Seneca on Grief and the Key to Resilience in the Face of Loss: An Extraordinary Letter to His Mother)
Aldous Huxley on the Transcendent Power of Music and Why It Sings to Our Souls
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service
May 24th, 2021 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on Aldous Huxley on the Transcendent Power of Music and Why It Sings to Our Souls)
Conversation at the Crossroads
Joseph Camilleri talks with Richard Falk and Stuart Rees – TRANSCEND Media Service
May 24th, 2021 (ANNOUNCEMENTS | Comments Off on Conversation at the Crossroads)
Between Science and Magic: How Hummingbirds Hover at the Edge of the Possible
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service
May 17th, 2021 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on Between Science and Magic: How Hummingbirds Hover at the Edge of the Possible)
The Soul-Expanding Value of Difficulty: Rilke on How Great Sadnesses Transform Us and Bring Us Closer to Ourselves
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service
May 10th, 2021 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on The Soul-Expanding Value of Difficulty: Rilke on How Great Sadnesses Transform Us and Bring Us Closer to Ourselves)
The Spirituality of Science and the Wonder of the Wilderness
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service
May 3rd, 2021 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on The Spirituality of Science and the Wonder of the Wilderness)
“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead. Walk beside me… just be my friend.”
Albert Camus, Nobel Literature Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service
May 3rd, 2021 (MEMORABLE QUOTES | Comments Off on “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead. Walk beside me… just be my friend.”)
The Stoic Antidote to Frustration: Marcus Aurelius on How to Keep Your Mental Composure and Emotional Equanimity When People Let You Down
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service
April 26th, 2021 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on The Stoic Antidote to Frustration: Marcus Aurelius on How to Keep Your Mental Composure and Emotional Equanimity When People Let You Down)
The Joy of Volunteering
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service
April 19th, 2021 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on The Joy of Volunteering)
A Big and a Small Dog
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service
April 12th, 2021 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on A Big and a Small Dog)
Paul Robeson (9 Apr 1898 – 23 Jan 1976): Lessons from a Remarkable Life
Tayo Aluko | Counterfire – TRANSCEND Media Service
April 5th, 2021 (BIOGRAPHIES | Comments Off on Paul Robeson (9 Apr 1898 – 23 Jan 1976): Lessons from a Remarkable Life)
Overcoming Hopelessness
Nick Vujicic | TED – TRANSCEND Media Service
April 5th, 2021 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on Overcoming Hopelessness)
Anubuddha Sutta – Understanding
Buddha Sutra – TRANSCEND Media Service
April 5th, 2021 (SPIRITUALITY | Comments Off on Anubuddha Sutta – Understanding)
“Little Prince” Author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry on Losing a Friend
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service
March 29th, 2021 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on “Little Prince” Author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry on Losing a Friend)
On living
Seneca – TRANSCEND Media Service
March 22nd, 2021 (FOOD FOR THOUGHT | Comments Off on On living)
Kindness Rewarded
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service
March 22nd, 2021 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on Kindness Rewarded)
Philosopher Martin Buber on What Trees Teach Us about Being More Human…
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service
March 8th, 2021 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on Philosopher Martin Buber on What Trees Teach Us about Being More Human…)
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
Buckminster Fuller – TRANSCEND Media Service
March 8th, 2021 (MEMORABLE QUOTES | Comments Off on “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”)
Confucius on Good Government, the 6 Steps to a Harmonious Society, and Self-Discipline as the Key to Democracy
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service
March 1st, 2021 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on Confucius on Good Government, the 6 Steps to a Harmonious Society, and Self-Discipline as the Key to Democracy)
Let Go of the Burden of Hate
Chaitanya Charan das | The Spiritual Scientist – TRANSCEND Media Service
February 22nd, 2021 (SPIRITUALITY | Comments Off on Let Go of the Burden of Hate)
Alain de Botton on Existential Maturity and What Emotional Intelligence Really Means
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service
February 22nd, 2021 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on Alain de Botton on Existential Maturity and What Emotional Intelligence Really Means)
Principles of Nonviolence
Gandhi & Luther King – TRANSCEND Media Service
February 22nd, 2021 (FOOD FOR THOUGHT | Comments Off on Principles of Nonviolence)
Anaïs Nin on Inner Conflict, the Interconnectedness of All Things, and What Maturity Really Means
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service
February 15th, 2021 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on Anaïs Nin on Inner Conflict, the Interconnectedness of All Things, and What Maturity Really Means)
Typical…
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service
February 8th, 2021 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on Typical…)
It Is Never Too Late
Chaitanya Charan das | The Spiritual Scientist – TRANSCEND Media Service
February 8th, 2021 (SPIRITUALITY | Comments Off on It Is Never Too Late)
On the Uses of Compassion
Douglas Penick | Literary Hub - TRANSCEND Media Service
February 1st, 2021 (SPIRITUALITY | Comments Off on On the Uses of Compassion)
How Sarvodaya Was Founded
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service
January 18th, 2021 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on How Sarvodaya Was Founded)
Improving Rural Health
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service
January 11th, 2021 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on Improving Rural Health)
Mother Theresa
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service
January 4th, 2021 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on Mother Theresa)
Nelson Mandela
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service
December 28th, 2020 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on Nelson Mandela)
Walt Whitman on What Makes a Great Person and What Wisdom Really Means
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service
December 21st, 2020 (INSPIRATIONAL | Comments Off on Walt Whitman on What Makes a Great Person and What Wisdom Really Means)
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