🧩 Philosophy 4d ago · Maria Popova

The Donkey and the Meaning of Life

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“Come with me. I’ll teach you the flowers and the stars.”

Beneath our anxious quickenings, beneath our fanged fears, beneath the rusted armors of conviction, tenderness is what we long for — tenderness to salve our bruising contact with reality, to warm us awake from the frozen stupor of near-living.
Tenderness is what permeates Platero and I (public library) by the Nobel-winning Spanish poet Juan Ramón Jiménez (December 23, 1881–May 29, 1958) — part love le

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