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Kierkegaard on How to Channel Anxiety into Creativity

Kierkegaard on How to Channel Anxiety into Creativ...

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Simone de Beauvoir on Marriage and the Freedom to Change

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

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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...

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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...

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Hannah Arendt on the Power of Being an Outsider

Hannah Arendt on the Power of Being an Outsider

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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The Wildest Bet Is the Winning Bet

The Wildest Bet Is the Winning Bet

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

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

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The Black Robin and the Power of Tenacious Tenderness: How a Single Mother Brought an Entire Species Back from the Brink of Extinction

The Black Robin and the Power of Tenacious Tendern...

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The Difficult Balance of Intimacy and Independence: Beloved Philosopher and Poet Kahlil Gibran on the Secret to a Loving and Lasting Relationship

The Difficult Balance of Intimacy and Independence...

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The Force and the Flower: Poet and Potter M.C. Richards on Creativity

The Force and the Flower: Poet and Potter M.C. Ric...

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Grace Against Gravity and the Physics of Vulnerability: How Birds Fly and Why They Flock in a V Formation

Grace Against Gravity and the Physics of Vulnerabi...

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Octavia Butler on Religion and the Spirituality of Symbiosis

Octavia Butler on Religion and the Spirituality of...

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The Bird That Is Your Life

The Bird That Is Your Life

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Wilderness, Solitude, and Creativity: Artist and Philosopher Rockwell Kent’s Century-Old Meditations on Art and Life During Seven Months on a Small Alaskan Island

Wilderness, Solitude, and Creativity: Artist and P...

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