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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

Ecology, Empire, Emoji: 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 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

Trying Not to Try: Finding Freedom from Striving in the Ancient Chinese Concept of Wu-Wei

How to Be More Alive: Hermann Hesse on Wonder and the Proper Aim of Education

Consolation for Sorrow from King Arthur’s Court: Merlyn’s Advice on What to Do When the World Gets You Down

Hannah Arendt on the Power of Being an Outsider

Mary Oliver on the Measure of a Life Well Lived and How to Magnify Your Aliveness

The Wanting Monster: A Tender Modern Fable about the Difficult Art of Resting at the Still Point of Enough

The Day I Became a Bird: A Tender Illustrated Parable of Falling in Love and Learning to Unmask Our True Selves

The Dandelion and the Meaning of Life: G.K. Chesterton on How to Dig for the “Submerged Sunrise of Wonder”

The Wildest Bet Is the Winning Bet

The One Hundred Milliseconds Between the World and You: Oliver Sacks on Perception

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

An Occasion for Unselfing: Iris Murdoch on Imperfection and How to Be More Unselfish

The Black Robin and the Power of Tenacious Tenderness: How a Single Mother Brought an Entire Species Back from the Brink of Extinction

The Difficult Balance of Intimacy and Independence: Beloved Philosopher and Poet Kahlil Gibran on the Secret to a Loving and Lasting Relationship

The Force and the Flower: Poet and Potter M.C. Richards on Creativity

Grace Against Gravity and the Physics of Vulnerability: How Birds Fly and Why They Flock in a V Formation

Octavia Butler on Religion and the Spirituality of Symbiosis

The Bird That Is Your Life

Wilderness, Solitude, and Creativity: Artist and Philosopher Rockwell Kent’s Century-Old Meditations on Art and Life During Seven Months on a Small Alaskan Island

The Invention of Empathy: Rilke, Rodin, and the Art of “Inseeing”

Oliver Sacks on Gratitude, the Measure of Living, and the Dignity of Dying

Marianne Moore on the Three Elements of Persuasive Writing

The First Scientist’s Guide to Truth: Alhazen on Critical Thinking

A Place for Intimacy: bell hooks on Language and Desire

The Woman Who Saved Native Song

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

Walt Whitman, Shortly After His Paralytic Stroke, on What Makes Life Worth Living

The Experience Machine: Cognitive Philosopher Andy Clark on the Power of Expectation and How the Mind Renders Reality

Erich Fromm on the Key to Sanity

No One You Love Is Ever Dead: Hemingway on the Most Devastating of Losses and the Meaning of Life

Walt Whitman’s Field Guide to Being Yourself: The Trial and Triumph of Leaves of Grass

Mary Oliver’s Advice on Writing

Orcas and the Price of Consciousness: Lessons in Love and Loss from Earth’s Most Successful and Creative Predator

The Thing Itself: C.S. Lewis on What We Long for in Our Existential Longing

Rehabilitating the Active Imagination: Samantha Harvey on How to Be a Reader in the Age of Fractured Attention