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On Flying Too Close to the Sun – And Not Flying Close Enough
We are – most of us – likely at some point in childhood to have been told the story of…
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How to Weaken the Hold of Addiction
Many of us are prey to addictive behaviours which we know run contrary to our deeper interests but which we find ourselves entirely unable to desist from at key moments.
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Charles Darwin and the Descent of Man
It is completely understandable that we are often maddened by what might be called ‘normal’ humanity. In such moods the 19th century naturalist Charles Darwin has much to say to us.
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Straightforward vs. Complicated People
A basic distinction in humans is between those who are simple and straightforward to deal with – and those who are – as we tend to be reminded when we interact with them – repeatedly tricky or complicated to handle.
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The Need for Processing
One of the nicest things that young children do when they get back from school and have a loved one…
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The Need For A Modern Monastery
However much we claim that we would like not to be so anxious, lonely, disconnected and depleted, we seldom systematically…
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How to Raise a Successful Person
A question not just for parents but for anyone reflecting on the constituents of a good life and on their…
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How to Make It Through
Probably the most remarkable thing about this ostensibly very ordinary painting is that it was made in the last months…
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Why Illusions Are Necessary to Achieve Anything
We tend to imagine that good and purposeful people must always have an appetite to face the truth. But what…
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Sociability
The Loveliest People in the World
The loveliest people are not the applauded and the haughty ones, the elated and the optimistic ones. They are the…
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12 Signs That You Are Mature in the Eyes of Psychotherapy
As we know only too well, becoming an adult has very little to do with turning 18 or 22, driving…
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Eight Rules to Create Nicer Cities
In almost no area of modern life are the potential solutions simpler and our attachment to our errors greater than…
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Sociability
The Need for Processing
One of the nicest things that young children do when they get back from school and have a loved one…
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Calm
The Need For A Modern Monastery
However much we claim that we would like not to be so anxious, lonely, disconnected and depleted, we seldom systematically…
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Self-Knowledge
How to Raise a Successful Person
A question not just for parents but for anyone reflecting on the constituents of a good life and on their…
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Calm
How to Make It Through
Probably the most remarkable thing about this ostensibly very ordinary painting is that it was made in the last months…
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Calm
Why Illusions Are Necessary to Achieve Anything
We tend to imagine that good and purposeful people must always have an appetite to face the truth. But what…
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Sociability
The Loveliest People in the World
The loveliest people are not the applauded and the haughty ones, the elated and the optimistic ones. They are the…
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Self-Knowledge
12 Signs That You Are Mature in the Eyes of Psychotherapy
As we know only too well, becoming an adult has very little to do with turning 18 or 22, driving…
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Leisure
Eight Rules to Create Nicer Cities
In almost no area of modern life are the potential solutions simpler and our attachment to our errors greater than…
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