Quote for Today: Pyotr Kropotkin
Having been brought up in a serf-owner’s family, I entered active life, like all young men of my time, with a great deal of confidence in the necessity of commanding, …
Quote for Today: Boris Pasternak
Reshaping life! People who can say that have never understood a thing about life—they have never felt its breath, its heartbeat—however much they have seen or done. They look on …
Quote for Today: Abraham Joshua Heschel
Awe is more than an emotion; it is a way of understanding, insight into a meaning greater than ourselves. The beginning of awe is wonder, and the beginning of wisdom …
Featured Artist: Yohanes Soubirius De Santo
Synkroniciti is delighted to welcome back Indonesian visual artist Yohanes Soubirius De Santo (2:4) with three intricate and socially conscious pen and ink illustrations: “Without Virtual Nanny” recalls a time …
Quote for Today: Jane Hirshfield
Ten Windows records the desire to understand others’ poems I’ve felt transfixed and transformed by: “What is a good poem doing?” “How is it done?” “Why does it work?” I want …
Quote for Today: Hypatia
Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding …
Quote for Today: Mary Oliver
The Uses of Sorrow Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift. —Mary Oliver Image …
Quote for Today: Georg Simmel
Our fellowman either may voluntarily reveal to us the truth about himself, or by dissimulation he may deceive us as to the truth. No other object of knowledge can …
Quote for Today: Buckminster Fuller
I am enthusiastic over humanity’s extraordinary and sometimes very timely ingenuity. If you are in a shipwreck and all the boats are gone, a piano top buoyant enough to keep …
Quote for Today: J.M. Darhower
I’m going to tell you something that a wise man once told me: it’s not the darkness that’s terrifying, it’s what you might find in it. I was always afraid …