The lost art of learning to “stand in a place where we would rather not and expand in ways we never knew we could.”| The Marginalian
“Unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax. There is no point whatever in making plans for a future which you will never be able to enjoy.”| The Marginalian
“Art is something that you encounter and you know it’s in a different kind of space from the rest of your life, but is directly connected to it.”| The Marginalian
“Our overblown intellectual faculties seem to be telling us both that we are eternal and that we are not.”| The Marginalian
“Genius means that someone can be gifted with one type of cognition while being average or below average in another.”| The Marginalian
“Art is not a thing — it is a way.”| The Marginalian
What a seal bodyguard and 2,000-year-old moss have to do with a watershed moment in the history of exploration.| The Marginalian
What a charred ancient tree can teach us about impermanence, deep time, and our place in the universe.| The Marginalian
“It’s a wonderful idea: thoroughly conscious ignorance.”| The Marginalian