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Emerson on Talent vs. Character, Our Resistance to Change, and the Key to True Personal Growth

Emerson on Talent vs. Character, Our Resistance to...

2 months ago 3

Corrective for a Broken Heart

Corrective for a Broken Heart

2 months ago 3

The Bird in the Heart: Terry Tempest Williams on the Paradox of Transformation and How to Live with Uncertainty

The Bird in the Heart: Terry Tempest Williams on t...

2 months ago 3

Gardening as Resistance: Notes on Building Paradise

Gardening as Resistance: Notes on Building Paradis...

2 months ago 3

How to Stop Doing and Start Living

How to Stop Doing and Start Living

2 months ago 4

Create Dangerously: Albert Camus on the Power of Art as Resistance and Creativity as an Instrument of Freedom

Create Dangerously: Albert Camus on the Power of A...

2 months ago 4

The Invention of Zero: How Ancient Mesopotamia Created the Mathematical Concept of Nought and Ancient India Gave It Symbolic Form

The Invention of Zero: How Ancient Mesopotamia Cre...

2 months ago 4

Something Deeper Than Hope: Terry Tempest Williams on Our Stays Against Despair

Something Deeper Than Hope: Terry Tempest Williams...

2 months ago 4

Life, Loss, and the Wisdom of Rivers

Life, Loss, and the Wisdom of Rivers

2 months ago 4

The Music of Trees: Improvisation, Iteration, and the Science of Immortality

The Music of Trees: Improvisation, Iteration, and ...

2 months ago 4

Place, Personhood, and the Hippocampus: The Fascinating Science of Magnetism, Autonoeic Consciousness, and What Makes Us Who We Are

Place, Personhood, and the Hippocampus: The Fascin...

3 months ago 4

This Is a Poem That Heals Fish: An Almost Unbearably Wonderful Picture-Book About How Poetry Works Its Magic

This Is a Poem That Heals Fish: An Almost Unbearab...

3 months ago 4

Music, the Neural Harmonics of Emotion, and How Love Recomposes the Brain

Music, the Neural Harmonics of Emotion, and How Lo...

3 months ago 4

Where Love Goes When It Goes

Where Love Goes When It Goes

3 months ago 4

Reweaving the Rainbow: Divinations for Living from the Science of Life

Reweaving the Rainbow: Divinations for Living from...

3 months ago 4

What Forgiveness Takes

What Forgiveness Takes

3 months ago 4

The Measure of a Life Well Lived: Henry Miller on How to Grow Old and the Secret of Remaining Young at Heart

The Measure of a Life Well Lived: Henry Miller on ...

3 months ago 4

How to Get Love Less Wrong: George Saunders on Breaking the Patterns that Break Our Hearts

How to Get Love Less Wrong: George Saunders on Bre...

3 months ago 4