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Mary Oliver’s Advice on Writing

Mary Oliver’s Advice on Writing

6 months ago 24

The Thing Itself: C.S. Lewis on What We Long for in Our Existential Longing

The Thing Itself: C.S. Lewis on What We Long for i...

6 months ago 24

Rehabilitating the Active Imagination: Samantha Harvey on How to Be a Reader in the Age of Fractured Attention

Rehabilitating the Active Imagination: Samantha Ha...

6 months ago 20

William James on the Psychology of Habit

William James on the Psychology of Habit

6 months ago 24

Enchantment and the Courage of Joy: René Magritte on the Antidote to the Banality of Pessimism

Enchantment and the Courage of Joy: René Magritte ...

6 months ago 22

Is This Blue: Chilean Philosophers Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela on Love and How We Know the World

Is This Blue: Chilean Philosophers Humberto Matura...

6 months ago 25

Of Stars, Seagulls, and Love: Loren Eiseley on the First and Final Truth of Life

Of Stars, Seagulls, and Love: Loren Eiseley on the...

6 months ago 25

How to Conquer Self-Doubt and Overcome Creative Block: Artist SoLewitt’s Magnificent Letter of Advice

How to Conquer Self-Doubt and Overcome Creative Bl...

6 months ago 21

Flowers for Things I Don’t Know How to Say: A Tender Painted Lexicon of Consolation and Connection

Flowers for Things I Don’t Know How to Say: A Tend...

6 months ago 24

Christopher Hitchens on Mortality

Christopher Hitchens on Mortality

6 months ago 25

How to See More Clearly and Love More Purely: Iris Murdoch on the Angst of Not Knowing Ourselves and Each Other

How to See More Clearly and Love More Purely: Iris...

6 months ago 20

How to Make the Impossible Possible: Cristina Campo on the Crucial Difference Between Hope and Trust

How to Make the Impossible Possible: Cristina Camp...

6 months ago 25

Decoding the Mystery of Intuition: AI Prophet Margaret Boden on the Three Elements of Creativity

Decoding the Mystery of Intuition: AI Prophet Marg...

6 months ago 22

The Eternal Lyric of Love and Loss: “Goodnight Moon” Author Margaret Wise Brown’s Little-Known Poems for the Tragic Love of Her Life

The Eternal Lyric of Love and Loss: “Goodnight Moo...

6 months ago 27

Erich Fromm’s 6 Rules of Listening: The Great Humanistic Philosopher and Psychologist on the Art of Unselfish Understanding

Erich Fromm’s 6 Rules of Listening: The Great Huma...

6 months ago 26

The Work of Happiness: May Sarton’s Stunning Poem About Being at Home in Yourself

The Work of Happiness: May Sarton’s Stunning Poem ...

6 months ago 26

A General Theory of Possibility: The Abstract Art of Otherwise and the Physics of Resilience

A General Theory of Possibility: The Abstract Art ...

6 months ago 22

Václav Havel on How to Hold Your Failure

Václav Havel on How to Hold Your Failure

6 months ago 22