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Everything Is So Weird
There are moments, terrifying but also useful, vertiginous, comedic and in their own way filled grandeur and beauty, when we leave ordinary reality behind and perceive everything as for once entirely and profoundly weird.
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Escaping Into History
We should, at moments, be allowed to admit to longing to be living in a different age, and not to have to think about all the things that people of our times are so strongly supposed to be obsessed by.
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The Inevitability of Choice
There are so few public reminders of life’s necessary trade-offs. Yet once we understand the incompatibilities, we are in a better position to do what we always needed to do: choose.
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For those of us who have a lot to run away from – and that frightens us – in our…
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Self-Knowledge
We Are All Lonely – Now Can We Be Friends?
However appalling it may feel, loneliness is – in the end – always an illusion; an unfortunate consequence of not…
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Leisure
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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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
We Are All Lonely – Now Can We Be Friends?
Leisure
On Flying Too Close to the Sun – And Not Flying Close Enough
Sociability
The Need for Processing
Calm
The Need For A Modern Monastery
Self-Knowledge
How to Raise a Successful Person
Calm
How to Make It Through
Calm
Why Illusions Are Necessary to Achieve Anything
Sociability