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Inner Space, Outer Space, and How to Be an Astronaut in the Cosmos of Connection: Eric Berne on the Key to True Intimacy

13h

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

16h

Bertrand Russell on the Secret of Happiness

20h

The Weasel and the Meaning of It All: Annie Dillard on How to Live

Do Not Spare Yourself: An Antidote to Feeling Like You Are Waiting to Start Living

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

How to Handle a Narcissistic and Abusive Parent: Kafka’s Remarkable Letter to Father

How to Speak Forest

Nietzsche on How to Find Yourself and the True Value of Education

How to Fall in Love Better: A Field Guide to Enlightened Enchantment

Emerson on How to Trust Yourself

A Stoic’s Key to Peace of Mind: Seneca on the Antidote to Anxiety

The Three Elements of the Good Life

How to Be a Poet: Elizabeth Alexander on the Yin-Yang of Connection and Contradiction

Dostoyevsky, Just After His Death Sentence Was Repealed, on the Meaning of Life

The Vampire Problem: The Paradoxical Psychology of Why It Is So Hard to Change

How to Hold the Darkness: Notes on Living Through Uncertainty

The Science of Waiting and the Art of Delay

Steinbeck and the Difficult Art of the Friend Breakup

Are You Working: In Defense of the Invisible Labors of Creativitiy

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

Edward Abbey on How to Live and How to Die

Against the Cartesian Myth of Work/Life Balance: André Gregory’s Extraordinary Letter to Richard Avedon about the Nature of Creativity

The Stoic Key to Living with Presence: Seneca on Time Spent vs. Saved vs. Wasted

The Coziest Place on the Moon: Or, How to Bear Your Loneliness

On Losing a Parent

Actuality vs. Possibility and How to Hear the Signal of Your Life

The Canon of Solitude: 200 Years of Great Writers, Artists, and Scientists on the Creative and Spiritual Rewards of Fertile Aloneness

The Measure of a Life Well Lived: Henry Miller on How to Grow Old and the Secret of Remaining Young at Heart

How to Promise and How to Keep Promises from Breaking

Virginia Woolf on Creativity

On Children: Poignant Parenting Advice from Kahlil Gibran

J.R.R. Tolkien on How to Fall in Love with Life

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

The Peace of Wild Things: Wendell Berry’s Poetic Antidote to Despair, Animated

Seneca on True and False Friendship

The Moving Story of the Dawn Redwood: How a Fossil Came Back to Life to Bring Humanity Together in the Middle of Our Deadliest War

The Fascinating Science of How We Think Not with the Brain But with the World

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

A Beginning, Not a Decline: Colette on the Splendor of Autumn and the Autumn of Life

The Day Dostoyevsky Discovered the Meaning of Life in a Dream

Why Leaves Change Color and How We Become Who We Are: The Science of Chlorophyll and the Poetics of Personhood

The Unspeakable World: Alan Watts on How to Touch the Pulse of Life

Albert Camus on the Source of Strength and How to Save Our Sanity in Trying Times

The New Science of Plant Intelligence and the Mystery of What Makes a Mind

How to Change Your Life

The Paradoxes and Possibilities of Transformation: Adam Phillips on Our Ambivalent Desire for Change

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