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

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

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

Oliver Sacks on Despair and the Meaning of Life

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

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

Yes to Life, in Spite of Everything: Viktor Frankl’s Lost Lectures on Moving Beyond Optimism and Pessimism to Find the Deepest Source of Meaning

The Reason of Emotion: Bruce Lee’s Unpublished Writings on Willpower, Imagination, and Confidence

Kandinsky on the Spiritual Element in Art and the Three Responsibilities of Artists

How Pioneering Physicist Lise Meitner Discovered Nuclear Fission, Paved the Way for Women in Science, and Was Denied the Nobel Prize

Sleep and the Meaning of Life: Fernando Pessoa on the Existential Dimension of the Horizontal Hours

Carl Jung on Creativity

What Birds Dream About: The Evolution of REM and How We Practice the Possible in Our Sleep

Forgiveness

On Children: Poignant Parenting Advice from Kahlil Gibran

Rilke on the Relationship Between Solitude, Love, Sex, and Creativity

When Your Parents Are Dying: Some of the Simplest, Most Difficult and Redemptive Life-Advice You’ll Ever Receive

Thich Nhat Hanh on True Love and the Five Rivers of Self-Knowledge

The Middle Passage: A Jungian Field Guide to Finding Meaning and Transformation in Midlife

Blue Is the Color of Desire: The Science, Poetry, and Wonder of the Bowerbird

Notes on Complexity: A Buddhist Scientist on the Murmuration of Being

How to Grow Old: Bertrand Russell on What Makes a Fulfilling Life

Anaïs Nin on How Reading Awakens Us from the Slumber of Almost-Living

Georgia O’Keeffe on the Art of Seeing

How We Spend Our Days Is How We Spend Our Lives: Annie Dillard on Choosing Presence Over Productivity

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

How Not to Be a Victim of Success

Kurt Vonnegut on the Simplest, Hardest Secret of Happiness

The Three Elements of the Good Life

Necessary Losses: The Life-Shaping Art of Letting Go

The Continuous Creative Act of Holding on and Letting Go: 10 Beautiful Minds on the Art of Growing Older

The Neurophysiology of Enchantment: How Music Casts Its Spell on Us

The Four Buddhist Mantras for Turning Fear into Love

Don’t Waste Your Wildness

Kahlil Gibran on Silence, Solitude, and the Courage to Know Yourself

What Happens When We Die

The Majesty and Mystery of Ice: 200 Years of Artists Reverencing the Wonder of Water’s Wintry Face

The Four Desires Driving All Human Behavior: Bertrand Russell’s Magnificent Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech

How Emotions Are Made

The Single Best Piece of Advice on the Creative Life

But We Had Music

The Third Self: Mary Oliver on Time, Concentration, the Artist’s Task, and the Central Commitment of the Creative Life

The Baloney Detection Kit: Carl Sagan’s Rules for Bullshit-Busting and Critical Thinking

A Winter Walk with Thoreau: The Transcendentalist Way of Finding Inner Warmth in the Cold Season

How to Be More Alive: Artist and Philosopher Rockwell Kent on Breaking the Trance of Near-living

Michael Faraday on Mental Discipline and How to Cure Our Propensity for Self-Deception

Love Anyway

The Mystery of Personal Identity: What Makes You and Your Childhood Self the Same Person Despite a Lifetime of Change

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

Traversal: Proteins, Poetry, Blue, and Our Search for Meaning