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An Introvert’s Field Guide to Friendship: Thoreau on the Challenges and Rewards of Candid Connection
An Introvert’s Field Guide to Friendship: Thoreau on the Challenges and Rewards of Candid Connection

“We only need to be as true to others as we are to ourselves that there may be ground enough for friendship.”

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May Sarton on How to Cultivate Your Talent
May Sarton on How to Cultivate Your Talent

“A talent grows by being used, and withers if it is not used.”

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2,000 Years of Kindness
2,000 Years of Kindness

From Marcus Aurelius to Einstein, poets and philosophers on the deepest wellspring of our humanity.

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How to Grow Re-enchanted with the World: A Salve for the Sense of Existential Meaninglessness and Burnout
How to Grow Re-enchanted with the World: A Salve for the Sense of Existential Meaninglessness and Burnout

A shimmering reminder that “the magic is of our own conjuring.”

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Thoreau on Living Through Loss
Thoreau on Living Through Loss

“Death is beautiful when seen to be a law, and not an accident.”

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In Praise of Being Wrong: Lewis Thomas on the Value of Generative Mistakes
In Praise of Being Wrong: Lewis Thomas on the Value of Generative Mistakes

In praise of our “property of error, spontaneous, uncontrolled, and rich in possibilities.”

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The Transcendent Brain: The Poetic Physicist Alan Lightman on Spirituality for the Science-Spirited
The Transcendent Brain: The Poetic Physicist Alan Lightman on Spirituality for the Science-Spirited

A largehearted invitation to “stand on the precipice between the known and the unknown, without fear, without anxiety, but instead with awe and wonder at this strange and beautiful cosmos we find ourselves in.”

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How to Bear Your Loneliness: Grounding Wisdom from the Great Buddhist Teacher Pema Chödrön
How to Bear Your Loneliness: Grounding Wisdom from the Great Buddhist Teacher Pema Chödrön

“We are cheating ourselves when we run away from the ambiguity of loneliness.”

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Trust, Betrayal, and the Nexus of Mathematics and Morality: The Prisoner’s Dilemma Animated
Trust, Betrayal, and the Nexus of Mathematics and Morality: The Prisoner’s Dilemma Animated

Illuminating the pitfalls of the mind in felt and gingerbread.

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Bear: A Soulful Illustrated Meditation on Life with and Liberation from Depression
Bear: A Soulful Illustrated Meditation on Life with and Liberation from Depression

Inside the silent scream of life.

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