How Nature Imagined the Figment of You

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A Shelter in Time: John Berger on the Power of Music

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Very Necessary Qualifications of a Great Storyteller

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

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Einstein and the Eagle: How Relativity Is Saving Earth’s Rarest Raptor

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The Three Elements of the Good Life

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An Introvert’s Field Guide to Friendship: Thoreau on the Challenges and Rewards of Candid Connection

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Václav Havel, Writing from Prison, on How to Hold Your Failure

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The Only Three Distinctions Between People

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

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

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How Phrenology Queered Language: Walt Whitman and the Evolving Lexicon of Love

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Artist Louise Bourgeois on How Solitude Enriches Creative Work

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The Donkey and the Meaning of Eternity: Nobel-Winning Spanish Poet Juan Ramón Jiménez’s Love Letter to Life

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Curiosity as an Instrument of Love: Thoreau’s Touching Account of 24 Hours with a Tiny Owl

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Hermann Hesse on How to Hear the Wisdom of the Inner Voice

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Albert Camus on the Three Antidotes to the Absurdity of Life

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Existentialist Embroidery

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Oliver Sacks on Memory, Originality, and Why Forgetting is Necessary for Creativity

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