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The Unspeakable World: Alan Watts on How to Touch the Pulse of Life
What makes life so disorienting is that its greatest revelations and greatest transformations are inarticulable. William James knew this whe
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Albert Camus on the Source of Strength and How to Save Our Sanity in Trying Times
"In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."
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The New Science of Plant Intelligence and the Mystery of What Makes a Mind
"Every thought that has ever passed through your brain was made possible by plants."
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How to Change Your Life
HOW TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE by Maria Popova Don’t try to wash your tired hands clean from the bloodshed of your private wars. Just unclench the
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The Paradoxes and Possibilities of Transformation: Adam Phillips on Our Ambivalent Desire for Change
"There is no description of a life without an account of the changes that are possible within it."
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Kahlil Gibran on the Courage to Weather the Uncertainties of Love
"Think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course."
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How to Break Free from the Tyranny of Certainty: The Japanese Concept of “Ma”
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How Not to Waste Your Wildness
"What is wild cannot be bought or sold, borrowed or copied. It is. Unmistakable, unforgettable, unshamable, elemental as earth and ice, wate
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Polyvagal Theory and the Neurobiology of Connection: The Science of Rupture, Repair, and Reciprocity
"The mind narrates what the nervous system knows. Story follows state."
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I Long to Read More in the Book of You: Moomins Creator Tove Jansson’s Tender and Passionate Letters to the Love of Her Life
"I’m so unused to being happy that I haven’t really come to terms with what it involves... I feel like a garden that’s finally been watered,
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The True Purpose of Tarot
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How to Apologize: Reflections on Forgiveness, Self-Forgiveness, and the Vulnerabilities of Being Human
"It's permitted to receive solace for whatever you did or didn't do, pitiful, beautiful human."
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Erich Fromm’s 6 Rules of Listening: The Great Humanistic Philosopher and Psychologist on the Art of Unselfish Understanding
"Understanding and loving are inseparable. If they are separate, it is a cerebral process and the door to essential understanding remains cl
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How to Relate to Your Worst Mistakes: The Life-Shaping Difference Between Regret and Remorse
You know it, that awful moment your coherent self-image shatters and a part of you, shadowy and untended, splits off to cause harm and havoc
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How Two Souls Can Interact with One Another: Simone de Beauvoir on Love and Friendship
It is in relationships that we discover both our depths and our limits, there that we anneal ourselves and transcend ourselves, there that w
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The Most Important Thing to Remember About Your Mother
"It is not easy to give closeness and freedom, safety plus danger."
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How to Handle Provocation: Bertrand Russell’s Remarkable Response to a Fascist
"The emotional universes we inhabit are so distinct, and in deepest ways opposed, that nothing fruitful or sincere could ever emerge from as
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The Art of Choosing Love Over Not-Love: Rumi’s Antidote to Our Human Tragedy
"You’ll long for me when I’m gone... You'll kiss the headstone of my grave... Kiss my face instead!"
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The Power of Being a Threshold Person: Liminality, Communitas, and the Anti-structures of Possibility
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Everything Is Already There: Javier Marías on the Courage to Heed Your Intuitions
"This has nothing to do with premonitions, there is nothing supernatural or mysterious about it, what’s mysterious is that we pay no heed to
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Wendell Berry on Solitude and the Two Great Enemies of Creative Work
"True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human obligation. One’s inner voices become audible... In consequence, one
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The Creative Power of Uncertainty: Polish Poet Wisława Szymborska’s Magnificent Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
"Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous ‘I don't know.’"
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