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The Wildest Bet Is the Winning Bet

The One Hundred Milliseconds Between the World and You: Oliver Sacks on Perception

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

An Occasion for Unselfing: Iris Murdoch on Imperfection and How to Be More Unselfish

The Black Robin and the Power of Tenacious Tenderness: How a Single Mother Brought an Entire Species Back from the Brink of Extinction

The Difficult Balance of Intimacy and Independence: Beloved Philosopher and Poet Kahlil Gibran on the Secret to a Loving and Lasting Relationship

The Force and the Flower: Poet and Potter M.C. Richards on Creativity

Grace Against Gravity and the Physics of Vulnerability: How Birds Fly and Why They Flock in a V Formation

Octavia Butler on Religion and the Spirituality of Symbiosis

The Bird That Is Your Life

Wilderness, Solitude, and Creativity: Artist and Philosopher Rockwell Kent’s Century-Old Meditations on Art and Life During Seven Months on a Small Alaskan Island

The Invention of Empathy: Rilke, Rodin, and the Art of “Inseeing”

Oliver Sacks on Gratitude, the Measure of Living, and the Dignity of Dying

Marianne Moore on the Three Elements of Persuasive Writing

The First Scientist’s Guide to Truth: Alhazen on Critical Thinking

A Place for Intimacy: bell hooks on Language and Desire

The Woman Who Saved Native Song

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

Walt Whitman, Shortly After His Paralytic Stroke, on What Makes Life Worth Living

The Experience Machine: Cognitive Philosopher Andy Clark on the Power of Expectation and How the Mind Renders Reality

Erich Fromm on the Key to Sanity

No One You Love Is Ever Dead: Hemingway on the Most Devastating of Losses and the Meaning of Life

Walt Whitman’s Field Guide to Being Yourself: The Trial and Triumph of Leaves of Grass

Mary Oliver’s Advice on Writing

Orcas and the Price of Consciousness: Lessons in Love and Loss from Earth’s Most Successful and Creative Predator

The Thing Itself: C.S. Lewis on What We Long for in Our Existential Longing

Rehabilitating the Active Imagination: Samantha Harvey on How to Be a Reader in the Age of Fractured Attention

William James on the Psychology of Habit

The Kiln and the Quantum of Relationships

How to Live Fully: Ursula K. Le Guin’s Remedy for Our Resistance to Change

Enchantment and the Courage of Joy: René Magritte on the Antidote to the Banality of Pessimism

Is This Blue: Chilean Philosophers Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela on Love and How We Know the World

Of Stars, Seagulls, and Love: Loren Eiseley on the First and Final Truth of Life

How to Conquer Self-Doubt and Overcome Creative Block: Artist SoLewitt’s Magnificent Letter of Advice

Flowers for Things I Don’t Know How to Say: A Tender Painted Lexicon of Consolation and Connection

Christopher Hitchens on Mortality

How to See More Clearly and Love More Purely: Iris Murdoch on the Angst of Not Knowing Ourselves and Each Other

The Importance of Being Scared: Polish Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska on Fairy Tales and the Necessity of Fear

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

How to Make the Impossible Possible: Cristina Campo on the Crucial Difference Between Hope and Trust

Decoding the Mystery of Intuition: AI Prophet Margaret Boden on the Three Elements of Creativity

The Eternal Lyric of Love and Loss: “Goodnight Moon” Author Margaret Wise Brown’s Little-Known Poems for the Tragic Love of Her Life

Trial, Triumph, and the Art of the Possible: The Remarkable Story Behind Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy”

Erich Fromm’s 6 Rules of Listening: The Great Humanistic Philosopher and Psychologist on the Art of Unselfish Understanding

The Work of Happiness: May Sarton’s Stunning Poem About Being at Home in Yourself

A General Theory of Possibility: The Abstract Art of Otherwise and the Physics of Resilience

Václav Havel on How to Hold Your Failure

The Day Hermann Hesse Discovered the Meaning of Life in a Tree

George Saunders on the Antidote to Regret

Brian Eno’s Remedy for Burnout and Despair