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9/19/2021 1:04:27 PM

How to become a gifted listener; a tender illustrated fable about our capacity for change; the courage to defy cynicism and revise the world's givens

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9/12/2021 4:14:27 AM

The blue horses of our destiny: artist Franz Marc, the wisdom of animals, and beauty as resistance to brutality; Chekhov on how (not) to be a writer

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9/26/2021 10:04:26 AM

Marcus Aurelius on the good luck of your bad luck; magnetism, the hippocampus and what makes us ourselves; autumn and the sensual urgency of aliveness

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10/3/2021 10:04:26 AM

Love, death and Whitman. George Saunders on the two keys to storytelling. Alan Turing, the world's first digital music, and the poetry of the possible

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10/17/2021 10:14:28 AM

Alain de Botton on the importance of breakdowns, Thich Nhat Hanh on deep listening and the 3 Buddhist steps to repairing relationships, and more

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10/24/2021 1:04:27 PM

How (not) to love, or, unbreaking our hearts by breaking our patterns; Ursula K. Le Guin's love-poem to life, death, and trees; the art of solitude

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4/10/2022 12:34:26 AM

"The More Loving One," animated: the science of entropy and the art of alternative endings; Nick Cave on hope, love, and the remedy of despair

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4/24/2022 1:04:28 PM

Yo-Yo Ma performs Richard Feynman's ode to the wonder of life, the mystery of the world's most majestic tree, and more

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5/29/2022 4:34:27 AM

Your brain on grief (and your heart on healing) + an illustrated meditation on how to live with fear and what it means to love + the joy of dance

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5/22/2022 1:04:27 PM

The remarkable story behind Beethoven's "Ode to Joy," Rebecca Solnit reads a century-old love poem to trees by an 18-year-old Harlem Renaissance poet

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6/12/2022 10:14:26 AM

Consciousness and the constellations, the creative power of longing and the bittersweet,the day Hermann Hesse discovered the meaning of life in a tree

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6/19/2022 10:04:27 AM

The dandelion and the meaning of life, 20 reasons for being, poet Elizabeth Alexander on how literature widens the portal of the possible

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6/26/2022 10:04:27 AM

Mary Shelley on reproductive rights, Rebecca Solnit on writing and gardening, humanity's first cosmic gallery of children's art about life on Earth

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7/24/2022 11:34:27 AM

Poet Donald Hall on the secret to lasting love, Bruce Springsteen's strategy for living through depression, and the strange story of the avocado

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8/22/2022 3:09:41 AM

Why are we not better than we are; Alan Lightman on music and the universe; Eric Berne on the true meaning of intimacy (and how to attain it)

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8/28/2022 12:04:28 PM

3 things to learn from a child and 7 from a thief: Bob Dylan's favorite rabbi teaching; Neruda's "Book of Questions" illustrated; and more

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9/18/2022 1:04:28 PM

Color and consciousness; superb advice on growing old, growing young, and becoming your fullest self; an invitation to unselfing

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9/25/2022 1:14:26 PM

Emerson on how to trust yourself and what solitude really means, Henry Miller on the secret to growth in art and in life, a Victorian prophecy of AI

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10/22/2022 11:14:27 PM

Nick Cave on self-forgiveness and creativity, how to stop waiting and start living — a jolt from Henry James — and more

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10/16/2022 10:14:27 AM

Music and the body, pioneering aviator Beryl Markham on night and the wisdom of solitude

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11/20/2022 12:04:27 PM

John Steinbeck on how to think better, the fascinating science of mushrooms and music, Jack Kerouac's love letter to November

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12/18/2022 12:04:28 PM

What is time? 200 years of ravishing reflections, from Kierkegaard to Borges to Nina Simone; Margaret Wise Brown's radical life, illustrated; and more

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12/25/2022 12:04:27 PM

Ram Dass on love, music and the price of what we cherish, Herbie Hancock's antidote to burnout

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1/22/2023 11:24:53 AM

Ram Dass on the spiritual lessons of trees and how to be less harsh with yourself (and others); Elie Wiesel on the antidote to overwhelm; on wonder

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1/20/2023 4:24:41 AM

The neurophysiology of enchantment and how music moves us, Rilke's timeless spell for living through difficult times, the vital thing about mothers

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1/29/2023 11:04:28 AM

Lewis Hyde on work vs labor and what keeps the creative spirit alive; how a forgotten woman turned loneliness and loss into wonder; rootedness and God

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1/8/2023 11:14:27 AM

John Steinbeck on the true meaning and purpose of hope, Lynn Margulis on symbiosis and the unself, Richard Powers on our cosmic luck

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2/5/2023 11:04:27 AM

Emerson on the nature of genius, how a redwood tree brought humanity together in the middle of a World War, a forgotten revolutionary of intelligence

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1/1/2023 1:44:28 PM

May Sarton on how to live with tenderness in a harsh world, Nick Cave on the antidote to our helplessness, the seamstress who solved a science mystery

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2/19/2023 11:04:27 AM

If you fail at love; May Sarton's stunning poem about the relationship between presence, solitude, and love; the psychology of self-deception

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2/12/2023 11:14:27 AM

Nick Cave on the art of growing older, Pico Iyer on our search for the sacred, uncommonly beautiful 19th-century Scottish illustrations of birds

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2/26/2023 11:14:36 AM

Bertrand Russell on the secret of happiness, Leonard Cohen on what makes a saint, a soulful meditation on life with and liberation from depression

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12/11/2022 12:24:31 PM

How we co-create and recreate the world, an illustrated love letter to time and tenderness, and more

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3/5/2023 11:14:28 AM

How to survive hopelessness, Einstein on free will and the power of the imagination, our search for meaning in the age of AI

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3/19/2023 10:04:26 AM

How to bear your loneliness, spirituality for the science-spirited, and 2,000 years of kindness

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3/26/2023 10:04:33 AM

The value of mistakes, an introvert's field guide to friendship, how to cultivate your talent

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3/12/2023 11:04:41 AM

How to grow re-enchanted with the world and counter burnout, the Dalai Lama's advice to the young, the story of the world's first seed bank

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12/4/2022 12:04:26 PM

D.H. Lawrence on attention and the art of divination, Nathaniel Hawthorne on parenting, how a psychedelic mushroom may have inspired the Santa legend

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4/2/2023 10:04:27 AM

Lichens and the meaning of life, the remedy for creative block and existential stuckness, May Sarton on grieving a pet

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11/27/2022 12:04:28 PM

Storytelling and the art of tenderness, David Bowie on creativity and his advice to artists, the poetic science of the aurora borealis

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4/9/2023 10:15:33 AM

Jealousy and its antidote, the key to joy, Kahlil Gibran on the art of growing older

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4/23/2023 10:14:30 AM

Nick Cave's advice on life, May Sarton on writing and gardening, Thoreau on living through loss

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4/19/2023 5:55:09 AM

How to love the world more: George Saunders on the courage of uncertainty; magnolias and the meaning of life; the art of lying fallow

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11/13/2022 12:04:26 PM

Nick Cave on music, mystery, and the relationship between vulnerability and freedom; how to be a swimmer in the stream of time; sublime botanical art

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4/30/2023 10:14:28 AM

Let your heart be broken, a stunning century-old field guide to secular transcendence and seeing the heart of reality, Henry James on losing a mother

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11/5/2022 8:24:27 PM

How to be un-dread — Anaïs Nin and D.H. Lawrence on the key to living fully; C.S. Lewis on our task in troubled times; the woman who saved native song

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5/7/2023 10:14:43 AM

Octavio Paz on love, Maya Angelou on writing, Oliver Sacks on ChatGPT 30 years before ChatGPT

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5/21/2023 10:14:33 AM

May Sarton on the art of living alone, a 17th-century antidote to fear in love, pioneering psychoanalyst Karen Horney on the key to self-realization

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5/14/2023 10:14:28 AM

Matter and our search for meaning, attention as an instrument of love, Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" brought to life in a Spanish flashmob of 100 musicians

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5/28/2023 10:15:02 AM

Alain de Botton on the challenge of closeness, John Steinbeck on what we look for when we are looking, Ada Limón's stunning love poem to life

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10/30/2022 10:04:27 AM

Relationship repair and what true forgiveness takes, Sylvia Plath's ode to the tenacity of the creative spirit, women holding things

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6/4/2023 10:14:45 AM

The paradox of free will, artist René Magritte on the courage of enchantment, physicist David Bohm on wholeness

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10/9/2022 10:14:29 AM

How to make the best of life, M.C. Escher on loneliness and creativity (with a side of Bach and Rachel Carson), and an apple meditation

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6/20/2023 5:34:41 AM

Kierkegaard on the value of despair, Javier Marías on the courage to trust your intuitions, some thoughts about the ocean and the universe

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6/25/2023 10:04:27 AM

Love and chance, the power of our expectations, the wondrous space telescope eye of the scallop

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