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Poetry: I Too, Dislike It

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I was a latecomer to poetry, curling my nose at it in...

The Third Thing: Poet Donald Hall on the Secret to Lasting Love

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“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

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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

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There we were: Three women — a neuroscientist, a mycologist, and me...

Philosopher Martha Nussbaum on How to Live with Our Human Fragility

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“To be a good human being is to have a kind of...

Pythagoras on the Purpose of Life and the Meaning of Wisdom

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Abiding insight into the aim of human existence from the man who...

Viktor Frankl on Success

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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

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Calibration and consolation for those moments when it seems impossible that we...

Kierkegaard on How to Channel Anxiety into Creativity

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Simone de Beauvoir on Marriage and the Freedom to Change

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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

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“Our modern conception of human excellence is too often impoverished, cold, and...