SOURCE: Brain Pickings

"The day of a single universal language will dawn!... This language will be of the soul, for the soul, encompassing everything,…

"Liberty is a better husband than love."

Bridging Blake and Darwin with a single-hair brush.

"You may be weaker than the whole world but you are always stronger than yourself. Let me send my power against my power... Let…

Traversing the landscape of life on the wings of trust.

How to embrace our inheritance as "a creature of organic substance and electricity that can be eaten, injured and dissipated back…

"If we are to be true and worthy heretics, we need not only new heads, but new hearts, and, most of all, that new emotional…

"While wandering down the path of wonder, I briefly escape the world of separation and enter the world of unity."

"We create ourselves. The sequence is suffering, insight, will, action, change."

How a brilliant woman rose against the tide of her time to fathom the mysteries of space.

An antidote to the civilizational compulsions that rob human nature of nature.

"The emotional life is not simply a part or an aspect of human life. It is not, as we so often think, subordinate, or subsidiary…

"What is happiness but growth in peace."

"Songs are like rivers: each follows its own course, yet all flow to the sea, from which everything came."

An invitation to "a certain, forgotten way of seeing the world" and an exultation at "earthly life, with its duration so short it…

"It’s part of being human to fall short of that total acceptance and ultimate understanding — and often far short."

Inside Earth's most alien vision.

"We are never simply seeing what’s 'really there,' stripped bare of our own anticipations or insulated from our own past…

"We are carriers of spirit... into a future unknown, unknowable, and in continual creation."

"This has nothing to do with premonitions, there is nothing supernatural or mysterious about it, what’s mysterious is that we pay…