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Walt Whitman, Shortly After His Paralytic Stroke, on What Makes Life Worth Living
2 days ago
“Tone your wants and tastes low down enough, and make much of...
The Experience Machine: Cognitive Philosopher Andy Clark on the Power of Expectation and How the Mind Renders Reality
3 days ago
“We are never simply seeing what’s ‘really there,’ stripped bare of our...
Erich Fromm on the Key to Sanity
3 days ago
“The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of...
No One You Love Is Ever Dead: Hemingway on the Most Devastating of Losses and the Meaning of Life
4 days ago
“We must live it, now, a day at a time and be...
Walt Whitman’s Field Guide to Being Yourself: The Trial and Triumph of Leaves of Grass
4 days ago
This essay is adapted from Traversal Sitting in the packed playhouse of...
Mary Oliver’s Advice on Writing
4 days ago
“Look for verbs of muscle, adjectives of exactitude.” “I read the way...
The Thing Itself: C.S. Lewis on What We Long for in Our Existential Longing
5 days ago
“…only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo...
Rehabilitating the Active Imagination: Samantha Harvey on How to Be a Reader in the Age of Fractured Attention
5 days ago
A habit is a spell you cast upon yourself that only you...
William James on the Psychology of Habit
5 days ago
“We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to...
Enchantment and the Courage of Joy: René Magritte on the Antidote to the Banality of Pessimism
7 days ago
“Life is wasted when we make it more terrifying, precisely because it...
Is This Blue: Chilean Philosophers Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela on Love and How We Know the World
7 days ago
Once, in an extreme of despair, I posed to my therapist a...
How to Conquer Self-Doubt and Overcome Creative Block: Artist SoLewitt’s Magnificent Letter of Advice
8 days ago
“You belong in the most secret part of you. Don’t worry about...