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

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Erich Fromm on the Key to Sanity

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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

William James on the Psychology of Habit

The Kiln and the Quantum of Relationships

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

Enchantment and the Courage of Joy: René Magritte on the Antidote to the Banality of Pessimism

Is This Blue: Chilean Philosophers Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela on Love and How We Know the World

Of Stars, Seagulls, and Love: Loren Eiseley on the First and Final Truth of Life

How to Conquer Self-Doubt and Overcome Creative Block: Artist SoLewitt’s Magnificent Letter of Advice

Flowers for Things I Don’t Know How to Say: A Tender Painted Lexicon of Consolation and Connection

Christopher Hitchens on Mortality

How to See More Clearly and Love More Purely: Iris Murdoch on the Angst of Not Knowing Ourselves and Each Other

The Importance of Being Scared: Polish Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska on Fairy Tales and the Necessity of Fear

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

How to Make the Impossible Possible: Cristina Campo on the Crucial Difference Between Hope and Trust

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

The Eternal Lyric of Love and Loss: “Goodnight Moon” Author Margaret Wise Brown’s Little-Known Poems for the Tragic Love of Her Life

Trial, Triumph, and the Art of the Possible: The Remarkable Story Behind Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy”

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

The Work of Happiness: May Sarton’s Stunning Poem About Being at Home in Yourself

A General Theory of Possibility: The Abstract Art of Otherwise and the Physics of Resilience

Václav Havel on How to Hold Your Failure

The Day Hermann Hesse Discovered the Meaning of Life in a Tree

George Saunders on the Antidote to Regret

Brian Eno’s Remedy for Burnout and Despair

How to Be a Good Explorer on the Lifelong Expedition to Yourself

Unselfing into Oneness with the All: The Forgotten Visionary Margaret Fuller on Transcendence

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

Pioneering Psychiatrist Donald Winnicott on the Qualities of a Healthy Mind and a Healthy Relationship

Thomas Bernhard on Walking, Thinking, and the Paradox of Self-Reflection

A Heron’s Antidote to Fear of Death

Between the User and the Used

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

Sentinels of the Soul: Kahlil Gibran’s Moving Letter to a Soldier in a Senseless War

Diseases of the Will: Neuroscience Founding Father Santiago Ramón y Cajal on the Six Psychological Flaws That Keep the Gifted from Living Up to Their Gift

Relationship Rupture and the Limbic System: The Physiology of Abandonment and Separation

Any Common Desolation

The Art of Befriending Time and Change: Debbie Millman’s Illustrated Love Letter to Gardening as a Portal to Self-discovery

The Magic of Moss and What It Teaches Us About the Art of Attentiveness to Life at All Scales

The Pattern Inside the Pattern: Fractals, the Hidden Order Beneath Chaos, and the Story of the Refugee Who Revolutionized the Mathematics of Reality

Wherever You Think There Is Nothing

Hemingway’s Advice on Writing, Ambition, and His Reading List of Essential Books for Aspiring Writers

The Measure of a Rich Life: Wendell Berry on Delight as a Force of Resistance and the Key to Felicitous Sanity During Hardship

Michael Rosen’s Sad Book: A Beautiful Anatomy of Loss, Illustrated by Quentin Blake