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• One can't write directly about the soul

  I’m listening to Maria Popova of Brain Pickings in conversation with Krista Tippett on the On Being podcast. Popova shares that, according to Virginia Woolf’s diary, one cannot observe the soul directly—because …

• True material of knowledge is meaning

  I am listening to Maria Popova of Brain Pickings talk with Krista Tippett on her On Being podcast. Popova states that true material of knowledge is meaning and meaning is opposite of trivial. The only thing that …

• The shimmering

  Several months ago, while reading Joan Didion’s essay Why I Write, I was surprised to read how certain images “shimmer around the edges” for her. She writes that she has these images in her mind—where the figure …