Doris Lessing: Learning is Understanding Something You’ve Understood All Your Life, in a New Way

“We can make ourselves more likely to be happy by building a life that includes the conditions that make for happiness.”

The Big Bang was hot, dense, uniform, and filled with matter and energy. Before that? There was nothing. Here’s how that’s possible.

Some books are remembered for their lyrical prose or engaging stories. Others are remembered for simply being weird.

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“The sense that we are a solid entity, an unchanging entity that exists someplace in our body and takes ownership of our body, and even ownership of our brain rather than being identical to our brain, that is where the illusion lies.”