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The Third Thing: Poet Donald Hall on the Secret to Lasting Love

The Third Thing: Poet Donald Hall on the Secret to...

6 months ago 14

Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” Brought to Life in a Spanish Flashmob of 100 Musicians

Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” Brought to Life in a Span...

6 months ago 15

Ecology, Empire, Emoji: The Bittersweet Story of the Ancient Plant That Originated the Heart Symbol

Ecology, Empire, Emoji: The Bittersweet Story of t...

6 months ago 17

Philosopher Martha Nussbaum on How to Live with Our Human Fragility

Philosopher Martha Nussbaum on How to Live with Ou...

6 months ago 22

Pythagoras on the Purpose of Life and the Meaning of Wisdom

Pythagoras on the Purpose of Life and the Meaning ...

6 months ago 19

Viktor Frankl on Success

Viktor Frankl on Success

6 months ago 25

Virginia Woolf on Finding Beauty in the Uncertainty of Time, Space, and Being

Virginia Woolf on Finding Beauty in the Uncertaint...

6 months ago 24

Kierkegaard on How to Channel Anxiety into Creativity

Kierkegaard on How to Channel Anxiety into Creativ...

6 months ago 24

Simone de Beauvoir on Marriage and the Freedom to Change

Simone de Beauvoir on Marriage and the Freedom to ...

6 months ago 25

Trying Not to Try: Finding Freedom from Striving in the Ancient Chinese Concept of Wu-Wei

Trying Not to Try: Finding Freedom from Striving i...

6 months ago 25

Consolation for Sorrow from King Arthur’s Court: Merlyn’s Advice on What to Do When the World Gets You Down

Consolation for Sorrow from King Arthur’s Court: M...

6 months ago 24

Hannah Arendt on the Power of Being an Outsider

Hannah Arendt on the Power of Being an Outsider

6 months ago 24

Mary Oliver on the Measure of a Life Well Lived and How to Magnify Your Aliveness

Mary Oliver on the Measure of a Life Well Lived an...

6 months ago 19

The Wanting Monster: A Tender Modern Fable about the Difficult Art of Resting at the Still Point of Enough

The Wanting Monster: A Tender Modern Fable about t...

6 months ago 16

The Day I Became a Bird: A Tender Illustrated Parable of Falling in Love and Learning to Unmask Our True Selves

The Day I Became a Bird: A Tender Illustrated Para...

6 months ago 20

The Dandelion and the Meaning of Life: G.K. Chesterton on How to Dig for the “Submerged Sunrise of Wonder”

The Dandelion and the Meaning of Life: G.K. Cheste...

6 months ago 15

The Wildest Bet Is the Winning Bet

The Wildest Bet Is the Winning Bet

6 months ago 20

An Occasion for Unselfing: Iris Murdoch on Imperfection and How to Be More Unselfish

An Occasion for Unselfing: Iris Murdoch on Imperfe...

6 months ago 22