Maria Popova
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931 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 22 Jun
Maria Popova’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's related.
I don't believe this impartial universe is giving us transient motes of stardust, personalized instructions about how to live our tiny, perishable lives.
It doesn't care, you know.
But I do believe in omens, which is...
the significance we confer upon the chance events of our lives.
And this is part of our restless hunger for meaning, which is our own responsibility.
Nobody and nothing will give us meaning.
We have to make it.
And I think love is an instrument for how to do that.
But that's the point, though, that that's the difference between signs and omens.
Omens are internally generated.
We are pattern-recognizing animals.
We have to make sense of what is happening to us.
And the fact is much of what is happening to us is the product of randomness.
But we need to create a pattern in order for it to make sense.
And we call that an omen.
So, for example, oh, a great blue heron appeared on my morning walk the day that I was going to make a cross-country move.
You know, that great blue heron.
It's fishing.
It is hunting.
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