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A Lighthouse for Dark Times

A Lighthouse for Dark Times

4 months ago 7

Against Self-Criticism: Adam Phillips on How Our Internal Critics Enslave Us, the Stockholm Syndrome of the Superego, and the Power of Multiple Interpretations

Against Self-Criticism: Adam Phillips on How Our I...

4 months ago 7

Don’t Heed the Haters: Albert Einstein’s Wonderful Letter of Support to Marie Curie in the Midst of Scandal

Don’t Heed the Haters: Albert Einstein’s Wonderful...

4 months ago 6

Trauma, Growth, and How to Be Twice as Alive: Tove Jansson on the Worm and the Art of Self-Renewal

Trauma, Growth, and How to Be Twice as Alive: Tove...

4 months ago 6

The Birth of Photography and the Death of Letters: Virginia Woolf on the Fate of Every Technology

The Birth of Photography and the Death of Letters:...

4 months ago 6

Fanny Wright and the Radical Courage of Being Real: The Forgotten Woman Who Pioneered Scientific Thinking and Free Love in America

Fanny Wright and the Radical Courage of Being Real...

4 months ago 6

The Vampire Problem: The Paradoxical Psychology of Why It Is So Hard to Change

The Vampire Problem: The Paradoxical Psychology of...

4 months ago 6

How to Live a Miraculous Life: Brian Doyle on Love, Humility, and the Quiet Grace of the Possible

How to Live a Miraculous Life: Brian Doyle on Love...

4 months ago 5

What It Takes to Grow: Pioneering Psychoanalyst Karen Horney on the Key to Self-Realization

What It Takes to Grow: Pioneering Psychoanalyst Ka...

4 months ago 6

How to Get Over Someone: A Strategy for Coping with Heartbreak Based on the Evolutionary History of Hiccups

How to Get Over Someone: A Strategy for Coping wit...

4 months ago 6

Do the Next Right Thing: Carl Jung on How to Live and the Origin of His Famous Tenet for Navigating Uncertainty

Do the Next Right Thing: Carl Jung on How to Live ...

4 months ago 6

The Third Self: Mary Oliver on Creativity and Time

The Third Self: Mary Oliver on Creativity and Time...

4 months ago 6

Wait: Galway Kinnell’s Beautiful and Life-Giving Poem for a Young Friend Contemplating Suicide

Wait: Galway Kinnell’s Beautiful and Life-Giving P...

4 months ago 5

The Gentle Giant: Oliver Sacks and the Art of Choosing Empathy Over Vengeance

The Gentle Giant: Oliver Sacks and the Art of Choo...

4 months ago 6

Music and the Body: Richard Powers on the Power of Song

Music and the Body: Richard Powers on the Power of...

4 months ago 5

A Cosmic Pastoral: Diane Ackerman on the Intimate in the Infinite and the Responsibility of Rapture

A Cosmic Pastoral: Diane Ackerman on the Intimate ...

4 months ago 7

The Parts We Live With: D.H. Lawrence and the Yearning for Living Unison

The Parts We Live With: D.H. Lawrence and the Year...

4 months ago 5

Moonlight and the Magic of the Unnecessary

Moonlight and the Magic of the Unnecessary

4 months ago 5