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Darwin’s Greatest Regret and His Deathbed Reflection on What Makes Life Worth Living

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The Art of Solitude: Buddhist Scholar and Teacher Stephen Batchelor on Contemplative Practice and Creativity

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Edward Abbey on How to Live and How to Die

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Dostoyevsky, Just After His Death Sentence Was Repealed, on the Meaning of Life

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Blaise Pascal on the Intuitive vs. the Logical Mind and How We Come to Know Truth

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Virginia Woolf on Self-Knowledge and the Limits of Empathy

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The Great Blue Heron, Signs vs. Omens, and Our Search for Meaning

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How We Grieve: Meghan O’Rourke on the Messiness of Mourning and Learning to Live with Loss

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Fernando Pessoa on Unselfing into Who You Really Are

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Albert Camus on the Three Antidotes to the Absurdity of Life

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Hermann Hesse on Discovering the Soul Beneath the Self and the Key to Finding Peace

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The Blessing of Burnout: Samin Nosrat on the Faustian Bargain of Achievement and the Simple Substance of the Good Life

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Polyvagal Theory and the Neurobiology of Connection: The Science of Rupture, Repair, and Reciprocity

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Leonard Cohen on the Antidote to Anger and the Meaning of Resistance

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Relationship Rupture and the Limbic System: The Physiology of Abandonment and Separation

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A Life of One’s Own: A Penetrating Century-Old Field Guide to Self-Possession, Mindful Perception, and the Art of Knowing What You Really Want

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Oliver Sacks on Despair and the Meaning of Life

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The Story Behind Dylan Thomas’s “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” and the Poet’s Own Stirring Reading of His Masterpiece

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Dying Mothers, the Birth of Handwashing, and the Bittersweet True Love Story Behind ‘Frankenstein’

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