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3 Kinds of Loneliness and 4 Kinds of Forever

3 Kinds of Loneliness and 4 Kinds of Forever

1 year ago 10

How Two Souls Can Interact with One Another: Simone de Beauvoir on Love and Friendship

How Two Souls Can Interact with One Another: Simon...

1 year ago 11

Carl Jung on Creativity

Carl Jung on Creativity

1 year ago 9

How to Be More Alive: Artist and Philosopher Rockwell Kent on Breaking the Trance of Near-living

How to Be More Alive: Artist and Philosopher Rockw...

1 year ago 10

Lights On: Consciousness, the Mystery of Felt Experience, and the Fundamental Music of Reality

Lights On: Consciousness, the Mystery of Felt Expe...

1 year ago 9

Carl Linnaeus’s Flower Clock

Carl Linnaeus’s Flower Clock

1 year ago 10

Walt Whitman on Owning Your Life

Walt Whitman on Owning Your Life

1 year ago 11

On Play

On Play

1 year ago 10

Comets, Orbits, and the Mystery We Are: The Enchanted Celestial Mechanics of Australian Artist Shane Drinkwater

Comets, Orbits, and the Mystery We Are: The Enchan...

1 year ago 10

The Half Room of Living and Loving

The Half Room of Living and Loving

1 year ago 10

How to Get Out of Your Own Way: John Berryman on Defeating the Three Demons of Creative Work

How to Get Out of Your Own Way: John Berryman on D...

1 year ago 8

How to Meet Your Mystery: Thomas Merton on Solitude and the Soul

How to Meet Your Mystery: Thomas Merton on Solitud...

1 year ago 9

Any Common Desolation

Any Common Desolation

1 year ago 9

The Strength to Remember and the Strength to Forget: James Baldwin on What Makes a Hero

The Strength to Remember and the Strength to Forge...

1 year ago 11

Miss Leoparda: A Painted Parable of the Third Way and How to Change the World

Miss Leoparda: A Painted Parable of the Third Way ...

1 year ago 10

Obsidian and the Birds: An Odyssey of Wonder from the Aztecs to the Quantum World

Obsidian and the Birds: An Odyssey of Wonder from ...

1 year ago 10

Against Self-Improvement: Adam Phillips on the Danger of Treating Ourselves as Pathological Patients in Need of a Cure

Against Self-Improvement: Adam Phillips on the Dan...

1 year ago 12

Insomnia and the Secret Life of Ideas: Kafka on the Relationship Between Sleeplessness and Creativity

Insomnia and the Secret Life of Ideas: Kafka on th...

1 year ago 12