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For Warmth: Thich Nhat Hanh’s Poetic Antidote to Anger

Brainpickings 17 Feb 2026
How to keep your soul from leaving you ... “You must do this every morning.” ... Thich Nhat Hanh. (Photograph courtesy of Plum Village.) ... Published decades later in Call Me by My True Names ... FOR WARMTH. by Thich Nhat Hanh. I hold my face between my hands ... .
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Let This Darkness Be a Bell Tower: Rilke’s Timeless Spell for Living Through Difficult Times

Brainpickings 17 Feb 2026
“What is it like, such intensity of pain?”. There are times in life when the firmament of our being seems to collapse, taking all the light with it, swallowing all color and sound into a silent scream of darkness ... by Rainer Maria Rilke ... .
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Mary Oliver on What Attention Really Means and Her Moving Elegy for Her Soul Mate

Brainpickings 17 Feb 2026
“Attention without feeling is only a report.” ... 1935, right) with Molly Malone Cook (1925–2005) at the couple’s home in Provincetown, Massachusetts ... Oliver — who refers to Cook simply as M ... M ... Molly Malone Cook) ... M ... Then M ... kle.
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Storytelling and the Art of Tenderness: Olga Tokarczuk’s Magnificent Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech

Brainpickings 17 Feb 2026
“Tenderness is the most modest form of love ... “I have always felt that a human being could only be saved by another human being,” James Baldwin observed as he offered his lifeline for the hour of despair ... Olga Tokarczuk by Harald Krichel ... .
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How to Live and How to Die

Brainpickings 16 Feb 2026
“Leave something of sweetness and substance in the mouth of the world.” ... After her terminal diagnosis in 2016, I began taking Emily on periodic getaways in nature ... COLD SOLACE. by Anna Belle Kaufman. When my mother died, ... for two more years ... .
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Be Like Water: The Philosophy and Origin of Bruce Lee’s Famous Metaphor for Resilience

Brainpickings 16 Feb 2026
“In order to control myself I must first accept myself by going with and not against my nature.” ... When he left Hong Kong in 1959, Lee adapted Wing Chun into his own version, Jun Fan Gung Fu — literal translation ... Lee writes. ... .
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Keith Haring on Creativity, Self-Doubt, and the Love of Life in the Face of Death

Brainpickings 16 Feb 2026
“It is very important to be in love with life Life is very fragile and always elusive. As soon as we think we ‘understand,’ there is another mystery. I don’t understand anything ... Afraid I’m wrong ... Just live ... Perspective by Maria Popova ... .
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How We Render Reality: Attention as an Instrument of Love

Brainpickings 15 Feb 2026
“Since our consciousness plays some part in what comes into being, the play of attention can both create and destroy, but it never leaves its object unchanged.” ... Lawrence wrote ... Letters to a Young Reader ... He writes. ... (Available as a print.) ... .
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Albert Camus on the Will to Live and the Most Important Question of Existence

Brainpickings 14 Feb 2026
“The body’s judgment is as good as the mind’s We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.” ... There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide ... These are games; one must first answer ... .
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Undoing as Remaking: How Abraham Lincoln Drew Poetry and Power from His Suicidal Depression

Brainpickings 14 Feb 2026
Life-affirming inspiration from a man who knew intimately “that intensity of thought, which will some times wear the sweetest idea thread-bare and turn it to the bitterness of death.” ... Abraham Lincoln ... His legal studies strained him beyond capacity ... .
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How to Grow Up: Nick Cave’s Life-Advice to a 13-Year-Old

Brainpickings 13 Feb 2026
“Fill yourself with the beautiful stuff of the world Get amazed. Get astonished. Get awed on a regular basis, so that getting awed is habitual and becomes a state of being.” ... In consonance with W.E.B ... Read. Read as much as possible ... Have fun ... .
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How to Keep Life from Becoming a Parody of Itself: Simone de Beauvoir on the ...

Brainpickings 13 Feb 2026
“In old age we should wish still to have passions strong enough to prevent us turning in on ourselves.” ... “For old people,” Ursula K ... You must do this every morning.” ... Simone de Beauvoir by Barbara Klemm. (Städel Museum) ... .
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The Monarchs, Music, and the Meaning of Life: The Most Touching Deathbed Love Letter Ever Written

Brainpickings 13 Feb 2026
From butterflies to Beethoven, an ode to the heart’s uncontainable dimensions. A version of this essay appears in the final chapters of Figuring ... Environmental Protection Agency, and sparked the environmental movement as we know it today ... Rachel ... .
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Why You

Brainpickings 12 Feb 2026
A self is a story of why you are you — a selective retelling of the myriad chance events between the birth of the universe and this moment ... opinions, identities, absolutisms ... The self, the place where we live, is a place of illusion ... newsletter ... .
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Dostoyevsky, Just After His Death Sentence Was Repealed, on the Meaning of Life

Brainpickings 12 Feb 2026
“To be a human being among people and to remain one forever, no matter in what circumstances, not to grow despondent and not to lose heart — that’s what life is all about, that’s its task.” ... He was sentenced to death ... newsletter ... .

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