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The Third Thing: Poet Donald Hall on the Secret to Lasting Love
2 days ago
“Third things are essential to marriages, objects or practices or habits or...
Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” Brought to Life in a Spanish Flashmob of 100 Musicians
2 days ago
A touchingly human reminder of our capacity for ecstasy, transcendence, and collective...
Ecology, Empire, Emoji: The Bittersweet Story of the Ancient Plant That Originated the Heart Symbol
3 days ago
There we were: Three women — a neuroscientist, a mycologist, and me...
Philosopher Martha Nussbaum on How to Live with Our Human Fragility
3 days ago
“To be a good human being is to have a kind of...
Pythagoras on the Purpose of Life and the Meaning of Wisdom
3 days ago
Abiding insight into the aim of human existence from the man who...
Viktor Frankl on Success
4 days ago
In 1945, shortly after his release from the concentration camps where his...
Virginia Woolf on Finding Beauty in the Uncertainty of Time, Space, and Being
4 days ago
Calibration and consolation for those moments when it seems impossible that we...
Kierkegaard on How to Channel Anxiety into Creativity
4 days ago
“Because it is possible to create — creating one’s self, willing to...
Simone de Beauvoir on Marriage and the Freedom to Change
4 days ago
A self is a story we tell to bridge who we are...
Trying Not to Try: Finding Freedom from Striving in the Ancient Chinese Concept of Wu-Wei
4 days ago
“Our modern conception of human excellence is too often impoverished, cold, and...
Consolation for Sorrow from King Arthur’s Court: Merlyn’s Advice on What to Do When the World Gets You Down
5 days ago
“Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the...