Shantaram: A Novel
The Antidote to the Irreversibility of Life: Hannah Arendt on What Forgiveness Really Means
Maria Popovathemarginalian.orgSuddenly, I gained an insight—that it is our attachments, hatreds, and closed views that imprison us as hungry ghosts, preventing us from going forward and living in the happiness that is available.
Sister Dang Nghiem • Mindfulness as Medicine: A Story of Healing Body and Spirit
We suffer as human beings, but out of that can come enormous joys, and genuine happiness, too. It can run in tandem with this ordinary sense of suffering. Otherwise, joy doesn’t resonate fully. Joy seems to leap forth out of suffering. Regardless of your loss, you see how beautiful, how meaningful, how joyful the world can suddenly be. Human beings... See more
Amanda Petrusich • Nick Cave on the Fragility of Life
Indeed, your world can break down precisely because you live on after the death of everything you love. This “death” can be much more painful and fearful than the prospect of your own death, not least because it is a death that you have to survive. Hence, as long as you are attached to someone or something that you can lose, you are susceptible to
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