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

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

6 months ago 14

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

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

6 months ago 19

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...

6 months ago 16

Moonlight and the Magic of the Unnecessary

Moonlight and the Magic of the Unnecessary

6 months ago 16

Tim Ferriss on How He Survived Suicidal Depression and His Tools for Warding Off the Darkness

Tim Ferriss on How He Survived Suicidal Depression...

6 months ago 19

The Seamstress Who Solved the Ancient Mystery of the Argonaut, Pioneered the Aquarium, and Laid the Groundwork for the Study of Octopus Intelligence

The Seamstress Who Solved the Ancient Mystery of t...

6 months ago 19

Dostoyevsky on Why There Are No Bad People

Dostoyevsky on Why There Are No Bad People

6 months ago 18

The Mattering Instinct

The Mattering Instinct

6 months ago 15

Emily Dickinson’s Electric Love Letters to Susan Gilbert

Emily Dickinson’s Electric Love Letters to Susan G...

6 months ago 15

Pioneering Psychiatrist Donald Winnicott on the Qualities of a Healthy Mind and a Healthy Relationship

Pioneering Psychiatrist Donald Winnicott on the Qu...

6 months ago 16

Seneca on Grief and the Key to Resilience in the Face of Loss: An Extraordinary Letter to His Mother

Seneca on Grief and the Key to Resilience in the F...

6 months ago 18

How Do You Know That You Love Somebody? Philosopher Martha Nussbaum’s Incompleteness Theorem of the Heart’s Truth, from Plato to Proust

How Do You Know That You Love Somebody? Philosophe...

6 months ago 19

Walt Whitman’s Advice on Living a Vibrant and Rewarding Life

Walt Whitman’s Advice on Living a Vibrant and Rewa...

6 months ago 16

The Color of Wonder and the Chemical Code of Creation

The Color of Wonder and the Chemical Code of Creat...

6 months ago 16

How the Great Zen Master and Peace Activist Thich Nhat Hanh Found Himself and Lost His Self in a Library Epiphany

How the Great Zen Master and Peace Activist Thich ...

6 months ago 19

The Courage to Be Yourself: Virginia Woolf on How to Hear Your Soul

The Courage to Be Yourself: Virginia Woolf on How ...

6 months ago 16

How to Be More Alive: Hermann Hesse on Wonder and the Proper Aim of Education

How to Be More Alive: Hermann Hesse on Wonder and ...

6 months ago 17

The Importance of Breakdowns: Crisis as a Clarifying Force for Authenticity

The Importance of Breakdowns: Crisis as a Clarifyi...

6 months ago 15