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Calm
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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What Would Jesus Do?
The Christian exercise is ripe for secular re-adaptation. We should train ourselves to ask: What would a kind, calm and mature person do or say now?
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The mouth and the breast are two central features of human anatomy, emblematic of two vital functions: eating and feeding,…
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Self-Knowledge
Can Childhoods Really Matter So Much?
For over a hundred years, we’ve been telling ourselves a powerful idea about how human beings work: that childhoods are…
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Leisure
The Past Was Not in Black and White
It’s a sign of how much photography influences our sense of what the past looked like that it’s hard not…
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Leisure
You Are Living in the Greatest Museum in the World
One of the most penetrating things Andy Warhol once said was: ‘If you lock the doors of a department store…
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Leisure
When Something is Beautiful…
It might be a tree in blossom, some daffodils, an ancient cottage, an old stone wall, the dawn sky… Such…
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Sociability
The Life Saving Role of Small Chats
If you were making a wildlife documentary about humans and set up cameras to watch us going about our business,…
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Relationships
When Your Partner Loves You – but Does Their Best to Drive You Away…
There are relationships which begin with great enthusiasm and love on both sides – but where after a while, one…
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Leisure
What’s the Bit of Therapy That Heals You?
It’s widely assumed that there is something about psychotherapy that has the power to heal. But exactly what this might…
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Relationships
What is Sexual Perversion?
The term ‘sexual perversion’ first came into use in the 19th century to describe erotic practices taken by psychologists to…
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The mouth and the breast are two central features of human anatomy, emblematic of two vital functions: eating and feeding,…
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Self-Knowledge
Can Childhoods Really Matter So Much?
For over a hundred years, we’ve been telling ourselves a powerful idea about how human beings work: that childhoods are…
View
Leisure
The Past Was Not in Black and White
It’s a sign of how much photography influences our sense of what the past looked like that it’s hard not…
View
Leisure
You Are Living in the Greatest Museum in the World
One of the most penetrating things Andy Warhol once said was: ‘If you lock the doors of a department store…
View
Leisure
When Something is Beautiful…
It might be a tree in blossom, some daffodils, an ancient cottage, an old stone wall, the dawn sky… Such…
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Sociability
The Life Saving Role of Small Chats
If you were making a wildlife documentary about humans and set up cameras to watch us going about our business,…
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Relationships
When Your Partner Loves You – but Does Their Best to Drive You Away…
There are relationships which begin with great enthusiasm and love on both sides – but where after a while, one…
View
Leisure
What’s the Bit of Therapy That Heals You?
It’s widely assumed that there is something about psychotherapy that has the power to heal. But exactly what this might…
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Relationships
What is Sexual Perversion?
The term ‘sexual perversion’ first came into use in the 19th century to describe erotic practices taken by psychologists to…
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