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Kahlil Gibran on the Courage to Weather the Uncertainties of Love

How to Break Free from the Tyranny of Certainty: The Japanese Concept of “Ma”

How Not to Waste Your Wildness

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

I Long to Read More in the Book of You: Moomins Creator Tove Jansson’s Tender and Passionate Letters to the Love of Her Life

The True Purpose of Tarot

How to Apologize: Reflections on Forgiveness, Self-Forgiveness, and the Vulnerabilities of Being Human

Erich Fromm’s 6 Rules of Listening: The Great Humanistic Philosopher and Psychologist on the Art of Unselfish Understanding

How to Reconcile Your Most Painful Mistakes: The Life-Shaping Difference Between Regret and Remorse

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

The Most Important Thing to Remember About Your Mother

How to Handle Provocation: Bertrand Russell’s Remarkable Response to a Fascist

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

The Power of Being a Threshold Person: Liminality, Communitas, and the Anti-structures of Possibility

Everything Is Already There: Javier Marías on the Courage to Heed Your Intuitions

Wendell Berry on Solitude and the Two Great Enemies of Creative Work

The Creative Power of Uncertainty: Polish Poet Wisława Szymborska’s Magnificent Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech

Italo Calvino on Reading and Sex

The Paradox of Knowing Who You Are and What You Want: Cristina Campo on Fairy Tales, Time, and the Meaning of Maturity

Wendell Berry on Hope, Despair, and the Measure of Effective Protest

How to Have Enough: Wendell Berry on Creativity and Love

The Invention of Zero: How Ancient Mesopotamia Created the Mathematical Concept of Nought and Ancient India Gave It Symbolic Form

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

The 3 Buddhist Steps to Repairing a Relationship

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

Joan Didion on Letting Go

A Parliament of Owls and a Murder of Crows: How a Forgotten Medieval Woman Gave Groups of Birds Their Strange Names, with Wondrous Vintage Illustrations by Brian Wildsmith

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

The Bird in You, the World in You, and the Art of Trusting Time: Ceramics, Serpentine, and How to Get Over Heartbreak

How We Render Reality: Attention as an Instrument of Love

Matter, Memory, and the Paradox of Perception: Henri Bergson on How to See Reality

Frankenstein Author Mary Shelley on the Surest Remedy for a Sunken Spirit and What Makes Life Worth Living

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

Life, Loss, and the Wisdom of Rivers

A Life of One’s Own: A Brilliant Young Woman’s Forgotten Field Guide to the Art of Knowing What You Really Want

The Tree and the River: A Wordless Love Letter to How Nature Always Wins

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

How to Be Reborn Each Day

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

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

Ode to a Good Pen: A Poem About Writing the Book of Love, Read by Nick Cave

Kahlil Gibran on the Art of Becoming Yourself Across the Sweep of Life

The Moving Letter James Baldwin Received from His Childhood Teacher at the Peak of His Fame and His Heartbreak

Decoding the Mystery of Intuition: AI Prophet Margaret Boden on the Three Elements of Creativity

Uncoding Creativity in the Age of AI: What Makes a Great Poem, What Makes a Great Storyteller, and What Makes Great Person

Leonard Cohen on the Antidote to Anger and the Meaning of Resistance

How to Delight in Your Days: Poet and Gardener Ross Gay’s Yearlong Experiment in Willful Gladness

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

The Vocabulary of Vulnerability: 10 Wonderfully Untranslatable Words from Around the World for Complex and Difficult Emotions

The Moomin Strategy for Living with Uncertainty