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The Art of Solitude: Buddhist Scholar and Teacher Stephen Batchelor on Contemplative Practice and Creativity

This Is a Poem That Heals Fish: An Almost Unbearably Wonderful Picture-Book About How Poetry Works Its Magic

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

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

Where Love Goes When It Goes

Reweaving the Rainbow: Divinations for Living from the Science of Life

Do the Next Right Thing: Carl Jung on How to Live and the Origin of His Famous Tenet for Navigating Uncertainty

What Forgiveness Takes

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

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

The Measure of a Life Well Lived: Henry Miller on How to Grow Old and the Secret of Remaining Young at Heart

How to Get Love Less Wrong: George Saunders on Breaking the Patterns that Break Our Hearts

Marcus Aurelius on the Good Luck of Your Bad Luck: The Stoic Strategy for Weathering Life’s Waves and Turning Suffering into Strength

How to Be a Lichen: Adaptive Strategies for the Vulnerabilities of Being Human from Nature’s Tiny Titans of Tenacity

How to Bear Your Loneliness

Roots and the Meaning of Life

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

How to Save a Life: “Little Prince” Author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry on the Power of the Smallest Kindnesses

Pi and the Seductions of Infinity

Einstein on Free Will and the Power of the Imagination

When Things Fall Apart: Tibetan Buddhist Nun and Teacher Pema Chödrön on Transformation Through Difficult Times

May Sarton on the Art of Living Alone

User-Friendly Self-Deception: Philosopher Amélie Rorty on the Value of Our Delusions and the Antidote to the Self-Defeating Ones

How to Feel Whole in a Broken World: An Astronaut’s Antidote to Despair

Barry Lopez on the Cure for Our Existential Loneliness and the Three Tenets of a Full Life

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

How Patterns Change

Necessary Losses: The Life-Shaping Art of Letting Go

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Day Dostoyevsky Discovered the Meaning of Life in a Dream

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

How to Be a Stone: Three Poems for Trusting Time

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

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

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

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

Annie Dillard on Unselfconsciousness

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

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

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

Virginia Woolf on Love

Octavia Butler on Change and the Meaning of God

But We Had Music

How to Be a Tree: Notes on the Resilience of Letting Go

What Happens When We Die