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How to Cope With Bullying

Those who don’t get bullied leave the house with armour on. They are under no illusions about what a human being can be.

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Self-Knowledge

How to Weaken the Hold of Addiction

Addiction has nothing to do with loving what one is addicted to, it’s to do with finding relief from a prior pain which has not been understood or addressed.

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Relationships

Why We Must Soften What We Say to Our Partners

The truth, if ever it is to reach others’ consciousness, has to travel in the softest, most hesitant layers of doubt. 

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Self-Knowledge

The Pessimist’s Guide to Mental Illness

The anxious should defiantly accept that they can never eradicate certain risks but that these can be shouldered — and a habitable life made among the ruins.

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Self-Knowledge

Recovering from Mental Unwellness

To get well, we need to recognise fully that we are ill — and therefore that we must endure a period of convalescence.

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Leisure

Following in the Buddha’s Footsteps

Far from taking us away from our true selves, the thinking of others may be what offers us a path to our own latent potential.

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The Importance of Being Single

There is no better guarantee of a successful relationship than knowing that we could — and can — manage perfectly well on our own.
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Why People Take Their Own Lives

If self-love deserves such sustained attention as a topic, it is because its shortfall is what can, in acute cases, be responsible for a choice to end one’s own life.
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  • Romanticism

Kierkegaard on Love

Kierkegaard insisted that through concentrating on Romantic love, we develop a narrow and impoverished sense of what love can actually be.
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Relationships

The Seven Rules of Successful Relationships

To maintain love, we need more than anything to follow a few simple-sounding rules (that can nevertheless be very hard to act upon).


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How to Cope With Bullying

The idea that we might be letting ourselves be ‘bullied’ sounds both strange and embarrassing; we’re meant to be adults;…
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