Maria Popova
Person on 4 sites
Maria Popova is a Bulgarian-born writer based in Brooklyn.
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6 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
- Born: 1983 or 1984, Sofia, Bulgaria (opens wiqqi.app)
- Blog: Brain Pickings, started 2006; renamed The Marginalian in October 2021 (opens wiqqi.app)
- Books: Figuring (2019); The Snail with the Right Heart (2021); A Velocity of Being, co-editor (2018); The Universe in Verse (2024) (opens wiqqi.app)
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3 channels on ppll (opens ppll.app)
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Blog: The Marginalian (opens www.themarginalian.org)
“The Art of Being Alone: May Sarton’s Stunning 1938 Ode to Solitude”
- x.com: @brainpicker (opens x.com)
- Elsewhere: @brainpicker on Instagram (opens instagram.com)
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Blog: The Marginalian (opens www.themarginalian.org)
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9 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Human self-awareness makes mere survival feel unsatisfying rather than sufficient. (opens korrents.com)
“life stares mutely back at us, immense and indifferent, having abled us with opposable thumbs and handicapped us with a consciousness capable of self-reference that renders us dissatisfied with the banality of mere…”
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A meaningful encounter between two creatures changes both of them and ties chance to meaning. (opens korrents.com)
“Encounters are events, they touch things in us, change things in us, bend probability in the shape of the possible, tie time and chance into a knot of meaning between two creatures.”
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Trying to protect yourself from heartbreak and loss is more dangerous than trying to save another person. (opens korrents.com)
“The only thing more dangerous than wanting to save another person - a dangerous desire too often mistaken for love - is wanting to save yourself, to spare yourself the disappointment and heartbreak and loss inseparable…”
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Human self-awareness makes mere survival feel unsatisfying rather than sufficient. (opens korrents.com)
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15 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise (opens rcmnd.app)
“With soulful curiosity channeled in his ever-lyrical prose, Pico Iyer chronicles a lifetime of pilgrimages to some of Earth's greatest shrines to that longing in The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise”
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Notes on Complexity: A Scientific Theory of Connection, Consciousness, and Being (opens rcmnd.app)
“the Buddhist scientist Neil Theise endeavors to bridge the mystery out there with the mystery of us”
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The Transcendent Brain: Spirituality in the Age of Science (opens rcmnd.app)
“the poetic physicist Alan Lightman sets out to illuminate how these atomic constellations can be capable of such exultant spiritual experiences”
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The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise (opens rcmnd.app)