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The Donkey and the Meaning of Eternity: Nobel-Winning Spanish Poet Juan Ramón Jiménez’s Love Letter to Life

Curiosity as an Instrument of Love: Thoreau’s Touching Account of 24 Hours with a Tiny Owl

Hermann Hesse on How to Hear the Wisdom of the Inner Voice

Albert Camus on the Three Antidotes to the Absurdity of Life

Existentialist Embroidery

Oliver Sacks on Memory, Originality, and Why Forgetting is Necessary for Creativity

Moonlight and the Magic of the Unnecessary

Swimming and the Meaning of Life

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

The Log from the Sea of Cortez: John Steinbeck’s Forgotten Masterpiece on How to Think and the Art of Seeing the Pattern Beyond the Particular

How Not to Dwell on the Past

How Evolution Invented Faith: The Patience of the Penguin and the Art of Withstanding Abandonment

Truth, Fact, and the Patterning of Reality: Virginia Woolf on How We Come to Know the World

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

Seneca on Grief and the Key to Resilience in the Face of Loss: An Extraordinary Letter to His Mother

Obsidian and the Birds: An Odyssey of Wonder from the Aztecs to the Quantum World

bell hooks on the Power of Being in the Margins

“Little Prince” Author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry on Friendship

Chance, Choice, and the Avocado: The Strange Evolutionary and Creative History of Earth’s Most Nutritious Fruit

Nick Cave on the Two Pillars of a Meaningful Life

What It’s Like to Be a Panda

Middle Age and the Art of Self-Renewal: An Extraordinary Letter from Pioneering Education Reformer Elizabeth Peabody

The Art of Looking: Eleven Ways of Viewing the Multiple Realities of Our Everyday Wonderland

In Praise of the Useless: Bertrand Russell’s Salve for Hard Times

On Children: Poignant Parenting Advice from Kahlil Gibran

How to Keep Criticism from Sinking Your Soul: Walt Whitman and the Discipline of Creative Confidence

How to Be Un-Dead: Anaïs Nin and D.H. Lawrence on the Key to Living Fully

The Enemy Outside and the Enemy Within: Audre Lorde’s Antidote to Despair

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

Let Your Heart Be Broken

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

Zadie Smith on the Courage to Be More Than Yourself

How to Live a Miraculous Life

Walt Whitman’s Advice on Living a Vibrant and Rewarding Life

Martian Gargoyles and Lunar Fish: Chilean Artist Alejandra Acosta’s Wondrous Embroidered Illustrations for This World’s First Book Theorizing Life on Other Worlds

3 Kinds of Loneliness and 4 Kinds of Forever

Gary Snyder on How to Unbreak the World

Poetry: I Too, Dislike It

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

The Third Thing: Poet Donald Hall on the Secret to Lasting Love

Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” Brought to Life in a Spanish Flashmob of 100 Musicians

Empire, Emoji, and the Ecology of Love: The Bittersweet Story of the Ancient Plant That Originated the Heart Symbol

Philosopher Martha Nussbaum on How to Live with Our Human Fragility

Pythagoras on the Purpose of Life and the Meaning of Wisdom

Embodiment and the (Re)invention of Emoji, from the Aztecs to Humboldt and Darwin to AI

Viktor Frankl on the Secret to Success

Virginia Woolf on Finding Beauty in the Uncertainty of Time, Space, and Being

Kierkegaard on How to Channel Anxiety into Creativity

Simone de Beauvoir on Marriage and the Freedom to Change

Arundhati Roy on the Deepest Measure of Success