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Neuroscientist Sam Harris on Our Misconceptions About Free Will and How Acknowledging Its Illusoriness Liberates Us Rather Than Taking Away Our Freedom
“Understanding this truth about the human mind has the potential to change our sense of moral goodness and what it would mean to create a just society.”
Elizabeth Alexander on Writing, the Ethic of Love, Language as a Vehicle for the Self, and the Inherent Poetry of Personhood
“You have to tell your own story simultaneously as you hear and respond to the stories of others.”
Trailblazing Philosopher Susanne Langer on How Our Questions Shape Our Answers and Direct Our Orientation of Mind
“The way a question is asked limits and disposes the ways in which any answer to it — right or wrong — may be given.”
Plato’s Two Charioteers: Free Will, Moral Agency, and How to Negotiate Our Capacities for Good and Evil
“Freedom isn’t the absence of control; rather, control is the essence of freedom.”
Gardening and the Secret of Happiness
“It came to me while picking beans, the secret of happiness.”
The Science of How Our Minds and Our Bodies Converge in the Healing of Trauma
“When our senses become muffled, we no longer feel fully alive… If you have a comfortable connection with your inner sensations … you will feel in charge of your body, your feelings, and your self.”
Nobel-Winning Physicist Frank Wilczek on Complementarity as the Quantum of Life and Why Reality Is Woven of Opposing Truths
“You can recognize a deep truth by the feature that its opposite is also a deep truth.”
David Whyte on Vulnerability, Presence, and How Surrendering to the Uncontrollable Magnifies Your Life
“Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet confinement of your aloneness to learn anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you.”
What Makes a Person: The Seven Layers of Identity in Literature and Life
“It is the intentions, the capacities for choice rather than the total configuration of traits which defines the person.”
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