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Dying Mothers, the Birth of Handwashing, and the Bittersweet True Love Story Behind ‘Frankenstein’

Dying Mothers, the Birth of Handwashing, and the B...

7 months ago 16

Oliver Sacks on Despair and the Meaning of Life

Oliver Sacks on Despair and the Meaning of Life

7 months ago 17

The Story Behind Dylan Thomas’s “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” and the Poet’s Own Stirring Reading of His Masterpiece

The Story Behind Dylan Thomas’s “Do Not Go Gentle ...

7 months ago 18

Yes to Life, in Spite of Everything: Viktor Frankl’s Lost Lectures on Moving Beyond Optimism and Pessimism to Find the Deepest Source of Meaning

Yes to Life, in Spite of Everything: Viktor Frankl...

7 months ago 20

The Reason of Emotion: Bruce Lee’s Unpublished Writings on Willpower, Imagination, and Confidence

The Reason of Emotion: Bruce Lee’s Unpublished Wri...

7 months ago 20

Kandinsky on the Spiritual Element in Art and the Three Responsibilities of Artists

Kandinsky on the Spiritual Element in Art and the ...

7 months ago 21

How Pioneering Physicist Lise Meitner Discovered Nuclear Fission, Paved the Way for Women in Science, and Was Denied the Nobel Prize

How Pioneering Physicist Lise Meitner Discovered N...

7 months ago 22

Sleep and the Meaning of Life: Fernando Pessoa on the Existential Dimension of the Horizontal Hours

Sleep and the Meaning of Life: Fernando Pessoa on ...

7 months ago 17

What Birds Dream About: The Evolution of REM and How We Practice the Possible in Our Sleep

What Birds Dream About: The Evolution of REM and H...

7 months ago 21

On Children: Poignant Parenting Advice from Kahlil Gibran

On Children: Poignant Parenting Advice from Kahlil...

7 months ago 21

Rilke on the Relationship Between Solitude, Love, Sex, and Creativity

Rilke on the Relationship Between Solitude, Love, ...

7 months ago 21

When Your Parents Are Dying: Some of the Simplest, Most Difficult and Redemptive Life-Advice You’ll Ever Receive

When Your Parents Are Dying: Some of the Simplest,...

7 months ago 22

Thich Nhat Hanh on True Love and the Five Rivers of Self-Knowledge

Thich Nhat Hanh on True Love and the Five Rivers o...

7 months ago 18

The Middle Passage: A Jungian Field Guide to Finding Meaning and Transformation in Midlife

The Middle Passage: A Jungian Field Guide to Findi...

7 months ago 18

Blue Is the Color of Desire: The Science, Poetry, and Wonder of the Bowerbird

Blue Is the Color of Desire: The Science, Poetry, ...

7 months ago 20

Notes on Complexity: A Buddhist Scientist on the Murmuration of Being

Notes on Complexity: A Buddhist Scientist on the M...

7 months ago 20

How to Grow Old: Bertrand Russell on What Makes a Fulfilling Life

How to Grow Old: Bertrand Russell on What Makes a ...

7 months ago 17

Anaïs Nin on How Reading Awakens Us from the Slumber of Almost-Living

Anaïs Nin on How Reading Awakens Us from the Slumb...

7 months ago 17