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The Power of a Thin Skin

Nature and Creativity: The Science of “Soft Fascination” and How the Natural World Resets the Brain

20 Ways of Surfacing from the Blues: Sydney Smith’s 200-year-old Strategies for Raising Low Spirits in a Letter of Advice to a 13-year-old Girl

Love After Life: Nobel-Winning Physicist Richard Feynman’s Extraordinary Letter to His Departed Wife

The Souls of Animals

Thich Nhat Hanh on the Art of Deep Listening and the 3 Buddhist Steps to Repairing a Relationship

Hermann Hesse on How to Read a Book and How to Read Yourself

Storytelling and the Art of Tenderness: Olga Tokarczuk’s Magnificent Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech

The Courage to Be Yourself: E.E. Cummings on Art, Life, and Being Unafraid to Feel

The Pain in You and the God in You: Carl Jung on the Relationship Between Psychological Suffering and Creativity

The Art of Losing and the Art of Beckoning Love Back: The Story Behind One of the Greatest Poems Ever Written

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

Hermann Hesse on Solitude, the Value of Hardship, the Courage to Be Yourself, and How to Find Your Destiny

The Violinist Who Solved the Ancient Riddle of How the World Holds Together

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

Tolkien Reads from “The Hobbit” in Rare Archival Audio from His First Encounter with a Tape Recorder

Now Yourself: The Elusive Science of What the Present Moment Is Made of and How It Makes You Who You Are

How Do You Know That You Love Somebody? Philosopher Martha Nussbaum’s Incompleteness Theorem of the Heart’s Truth, from Plato to Proust

Legendary Cellist Pablo Casals, at Age 93, on Creative Vitality and How Working with Love Prolongs Your Life

Why You

How the Great Zen Master and Peace Activist Thich Nhat Hanh Found Himself and Lost His Self in a Library Epiphany

Legendary Artist Sheila Hicks, at 92, on the Secret to Creative Vitality

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

Mushrooms and Our Search for Meaning

Georgia O’Keeffe on What It Means to Be an Artist

True Love Will Find You in the End: Kurt Vonnegut on When to Stop Trying and When to Try Again

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

Kurt Vonnegut’s Life-Advice to His Children

Epictetus on Love and Loss: The Stoic Strategy for Surviving Heartbreak

Diatoms and the Meaning of Life

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 Most Important Thing to Remember About Your Mother

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

Life Is a Story That Begins in the Middle: Bayo Akomolafe on the Rewilding Power of Obstacles

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

What Happens When We Die

The Man Who Thought with His Heart: George Forster and the Birth of Sensitive Science

Insomnia and the Secret Life of Ideas: Kafka on the Relationship Between Sleeplessness and Creativity

Oliver Sacks on Despair and the Meaning of Life

Necessary Losses: The Life-Shaping Art of Letting Go

The Meaning of Maturity: Ursula K. Le Guin on What It Really Takes to Grow Up

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

Oliver Sacks on the Necessity of Our Illusions

What Makes a Person: The Seven Layers of Selfhood in Literature and Life

Simone de Beauvoir on How Chance and Choice Converge to Make Us Who We Are

How to Be More Alive: The Samurai Guide to Dying Every Day

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

A Spell Against Stagnation: John O’Donohue on Beginnings

The Seamstress Who Solved the Ancient Mystery of the Argonaut, Pioneered the Aquarium, and Laid the Groundwork for the Study of Octopus Intelligence

Nick Cave on the Two Pillars of a Meaningful Life