Side by side in my Twitter stream

> “There is no insurmountable solitude. All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are." Remembering Neruda, who died on this day in 1973, with his gorgeous Nobel Prize acceptance speech – a manifesto against the illusion of separateness https://t.co/oefsFExcA3 — Explore (@Explorer)…

Life well spent

http://oupacademic.tumblr.com/post/108248609539reminded me of this from Seneca's On the Shortness of Life [http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/01/05/resolutions/]. > It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. Life is long enough,…

Non-stimulation

> The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less. I was led to this great saying by Annie Dillard [http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/06/07/annie-dillard-the-writing-life-1/] by another post at Brain Pickings,…