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Maria Popova on Sanctuary
Maria Popova is a reader and a wonderer reckoning with the meaning of it all in writing. The Marginalian is the record of the reckoning — a one-woman labor of love, exploring what it means to live a tender, thoughtful life of purpose and gladness, wonder-smitten by reality. Founded in 2006 as an email to seven friends under the outgrown name Brain Pickings and since included in the Library of Congress permanent web archive of culturally valuable materials, it remains a chronicle of her ongoing becoming — intellectually, creatively, spiritually, poetically — drawn from her extended marginalia on the search for meaning across science, art, philosophy, and the various other tendrils of human thought and feeling; a private inquiry shimmering with the ultimate question, the great quickening of wonderment that binds us all: What is all this?
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"Every instance of wonder is a homecoming to sanctuary."
And for those of us who live without religion, there is in this kind of spirituality, the everyday holiness of this interconnected world, the word whole, it has its indo European origin. And the notion of the interleaving of all things. And for those of us who live without religion, there is in this kind of spirituality, the everyday holiness of the interconnected world. In fact, to me, the most spiritual experience we can have is the wondrous this adventure of being awake to life, and meeting reality on its own terms.
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"Every instance of wonder is a homecoming to sanctuary." So wonderful!