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What Birds Dream About: How Evolution Invented REM in the Avian Brain So We May Practice the Possible in Our Sleep

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How Patterns Change

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Necessary Losses: The Life-Shaping Art of Letting Go

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Trauma, Transformation, and the Courage of Uncertainty: Prentis Hemphill on the Key to Breaking Our Patterns

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The Other Significant Others: Living and Loving Outside the Confines of Conventional Friendship and Compulsory Coupledom

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

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Finding Sanity in Sprezzatura: The Lost 16th-century Italian Art of Living with Fluency, Serenity, and Openness to Wonder

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Bloom: A Touching Animated Short Film about Depression and What It Takes to Recover the Light of Being

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How Do We Know What We Want: Milan Kundera on the Central Ambivalences of Life and Love

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The Day Dostoyevsky Discovered the Meaning of Life in a Dream

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How to Love the World More: George Saunders on the Courage of Uncertainty

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How to Be a Stone: Three Poems for Trusting Time

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The Eternal Return: Nietzsche’s Brilliant Thought Experiment Illustrating the Key to Existential Contentment

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What Makes a Soul Mate: Roxane Gay on Loving vs. Being in Love

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How the Bicycle Was Born: Mount Tambora, the Year Without a Summer, and the Stubborn Courage to Reimagine the Possible

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An Irishwoman’s Fierce and Poetic Record of Traversing the World on a Bicycle in the Middle of the Cold War

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Annie Dillard on Unselfconsciousness

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Wander: Natascha McElhone Reads Hermann Hesse’s 100-Year-Old Love Letter to the Wisdom of Trees in a Cinematic Walk Through Kew Gardens

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Letting in the Golden Light: Oliver Sacks on How Love Changes What We See

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Doris Lessing on How to Read a Book and How to Read the World

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