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Let This Darkness Be a Bell Tower: Rilke’s Timeless Spell for Living Through Difficult Times

How to Live and How to Die

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

How We Render Reality: Attention as an Instrument of Love

How Not to Waste Your Life

Be Like Water: The Philosophy and Origin of Bruce Lee’s Famous Metaphor for Resilience

Richard Dawkins on the Luckiness of Death

Undoing as Remaking: How Abraham Lincoln Drew Poetry and Power from His Suicidal Depression

Love Anyway

Albert Camus on the Will to Live and the Most Important Question of Existence

Hannah Arendt on Love and How to Live with the Fundamental Fear of Loss

The Monarchs, Music, and the Meaning of Life: The Most Touching Deathbed Love Letter Ever Written

How to Keep Life from Becoming a Parody of Itself: Simone de Beauvoir on the Art of Growing Older

How to Grow Up: Nick Cave’s Life-Advice to a 13-Year-Old

The Art of Choosing Love Over Not-Love: Rumi’s Antidote to Our Human Tragedy

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

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

Why You

Darwin’s Greatest Regret and His Deathbed Reflection on What Makes Life Worth Living

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

Edward Abbey on How to Live and How to Die

Dostoyevsky, Just After His Death Sentence Was Repealed, on the Meaning of Life

Blaise Pascal on the Intuitive vs. the Logical Mind and How We Come to Know Truth

Virginia Woolf on Self-Knowledge and the Limits of Empathy

The Great Blue Heron, Signs vs. Omens, and Our Search for Meaning

How We Grieve: Meghan O’Rourke on the Messiness of Mourning and Learning to Live with Loss

Fernando Pessoa on Unselfing into Who You Really Are

Albert Camus on the Three Antidotes to the Absurdity of Life

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

The Blessing of Burnout: Samin Nosrat on the Faustian Bargain of Achievement and the Simple Substance of the Good Life

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

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