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

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

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

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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

How to Be a Good Explorer on the Lifelong Expedition to Yourself

Unselfing into Oneness with the All: The Forgotten Visionary Margaret Fuller on Transcendence

Kafka’s Approach to Creative Block and the Four Psychological Hindrances That Keep the Gifted from Living Up to Their Gifts

Pioneering Psychiatrist Donald Winnicott on the Qualities of a Healthy Mind and a Healthy Relationship

Thomas Bernhard on Walking, Thinking, and the Paradox of Self-Reflection

A Heron’s Antidote to Fear of Death

Between the User and the Used

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

Sentinels of the Soul: Kahlil Gibran’s Moving Letter to a Soldier in a Senseless War

Diseases of the Will: Neuroscience Founding Father Santiago Ramón y Cajal on the Six Psychological Flaws That Keep the Gifted from Living Up to Their Gift

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

Any Common Desolation

The Art of Befriending Time and Change: Debbie Millman’s Illustrated Love Letter to Gardening as a Portal to Self-discovery

The Magic of Moss and What It Teaches Us About the Art of Attentiveness to Life at All Scales

The Pattern Inside the Pattern: Fractals, the Hidden Order Beneath Chaos, and the Story of the Refugee Who Revolutionized the Mathematics of Reality

Wherever You Think There Is Nothing

Hemingway’s Advice on Writing, Ambition, and His Reading List of Essential Books for Aspiring Writers

The Measure of a Rich Life: Wendell Berry on Delight as a Force of Resistance and the Key to Felicitous Sanity During Hardship

Michael Rosen’s Sad Book: A Beautiful Anatomy of Loss, Illustrated by Quentin Blake

The Wild Iris: Nobel Laureate Louise Glück on the Door at the End of Your Suffering

Do Not Spare Yourself

The Courage of Vulnerability: Teenage Frida Kahlo’s Moving Letters to Her First Love

Why Are We Not Better Than We Are: How Poetry Saves Lives

The Three Elements of the Good Life

The Intelligence of Emotions: Philosopher Martha Nussbaum on How Storytelling Rewires Us and Why Befriending Our Neediness Is Essential for Happiness

The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone

How Flamingos Got Their Pink

Nick Cave on Creative Work as an Instrument of Self-Forgiveness and the Courage of Hope in Cynical Times

A Stoic’s Key to Peace of Mind: Seneca on the Antidote to Anxiety

Ursula K. Le Guin on Suffering and Getting to the Other Side of Pain

Gardening and the Creative Spirit: 200 Years of Great Writers and Artists on the Rewards of Soil and Seed

The Courage to Be Yourself: Virginia Woolf on How to Hear Your Soul

Emerson on Talent vs. Character, Our Resistance to Change, and the Key to True Personal Growth

How Do You Know That You Love Somebody? Philosopher Martha Nussbaum’s Incompleteness Theorem of the Heart’s Truth, from Plato to Proust

Corrective for a Broken Heart

The Most Important Thing to Remember About Your Mother

The Bird in the Heart: Terry Tempest Williams on the Paradox of Transformation and How to Live with Uncertainty

How to Stop Waiting and Start Living: A Jolt from Henry James

Gardening as Resistance: Notes on Building Paradise

How to Stop Doing and Start Living

Telling Is Listening: Ursula K. Le Guin on the Magic of Real Human Conversation

Bruce Springsteen on Surviving Depression and His Strategy for Living Through the Visitations of the Darkness

Create Dangerously: Albert Camus on the Power of Art as Resistance and Creativity as an Instrument of Freedom