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A common mistake is not to be Ishmael but Captain Ahab. Ahab—the doomed skipper of the Pequod, the whaling ship whose crew Ishmael joined—was singularly consumed with finding and killing Moby Dick, the great white whale. The days leading up to Ahab’s fateful encounter with the great whale were a fever dream singularly focused on the object of his o... See more
Arthur Brooks • Why You Might Need an Adventure
If you notice anything, it leads you to notice more and more.
Mary Oliver • Dream Work
Note-taking Lessons From America’s Greatest Biographer
Jillian Hess • Note-taking Lessons From America’s Greatest Biographer
📜History and
Lessons from Robert Caro, famous biographer of Lyndon Johnson
And so it is with our own past. It is a labour in vain to attempt to recapture it: all the efforts of our intellect must prove futile. The past is hidden somewhere outside the realm, beyond the reach of intellect, in some material object (in the sensation which that material object will give us) which we do not suspect. And as for that object, it d
... See moreMarcel Proust • In Search of Lost Time [volumes 1 to 7]
Night Palace
open.spotify.comThese are three very practical ways to work with chaos: no struggle, poison as medicine, and regarding everything that arises as the manifestation of wisdom. First, we can train in letting the story lines go. Slow down enough to just be present, let go of the multitude of judgments and schemes, and stop struggling.
Second, we can use every day of ou... See more
Second, we can use every day of ou... See more
Pema Chödrön’s Three Methods for Working with Chaos
The sight of the little madeleine had recalled nothing to my mind before I tasted it; perhaps because I had so often seen such things in the interval, without tasting them, on the trays in pastry-cooks’ windows, that their image had dissociated itself from those Combray days to take its place among others more recent; perhaps because of those memor
... See moreMarcel Proust • In Search of Lost Time [volumes 1 to 7]
The Identification of the Sacred “Chiton”Sarapis of Pharaoh ...
tandfonline.com☕️Interest and 📜History
This is interesting and it seems to verify the location of the burial of Alexander the Great, King Philip, and Cleopatra. This struck me as interesting at the time because I’ve recently listened to several Hardcore History episodes on Persian kings - “Kings of Kings” and “Mania for Subjugation”