Self-Knowledge
Naturally You Don’t Trust Anyone!
We know of course that a principle requirement of being thought a healthy, acceptable person is that we should be…
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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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Self-Knowledge
When It’s Extremely Hard to Choose
A significant and intense chunk of our lives may be spent pondering ‘hard choices.’ Should we continue in our relationship…
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Relationships
What We Can Always Do to Improve Our Relationships
We don’t need to be especially self-righteous or particularly obtuse to settle on the view that – on balance –…
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Relationships
Who Actually Ends a Relationship?
There is a particular kind of pain that some of us have to endure at the end of a relationship…
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Relationships
Why Some Of Us Are So Bad At Spotting Red Flags
Some of us have a distinctive attitude to red flags in relationships. We can certainly see – if we push…
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Relationships
The Appeal of Rescuing Other People
We might assume that our great longing in relationships would be to be looked after by someone; an exceptionally kind…
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Calm
On Feeling Manic
Many of us are prone to slip into states of mind we might call ‘manic’ – in which we run…
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Relationships
Daring to Love
Some of us are involved in a dynamic in love that, when it’s laid out squarely, sounds very strange indeed:…
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Relationships
The Pains of Heartbreak
For all the songs and poems and novels written in its honour, the sickness of heartbreak is unlikely to strike…
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Self-Knowledge
When It’s Extremely Hard to Choose
A significant and intense chunk of our lives may be spent pondering ‘hard choices.’ Should we continue in our relationship…
View
Relationships
What We Can Always Do to Improve Our Relationships
We don’t need to be especially self-righteous or particularly obtuse to settle on the view that – on balance –…
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Relationships
Who Actually Ends a Relationship?
There is a particular kind of pain that some of us have to endure at the end of a relationship…
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Relationships
Why Some Of Us Are So Bad At Spotting Red Flags
Some of us have a distinctive attitude to red flags in relationships. We can certainly see – if we push…
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Relationships
The Appeal of Rescuing Other People
We might assume that our great longing in relationships would be to be looked after by someone; an exceptionally kind…
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Calm
On Feeling Manic
Many of us are prone to slip into states of mind we might call ‘manic’ – in which we run…
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Relationships
Daring to Love
Some of us are involved in a dynamic in love that, when it’s laid out squarely, sounds very strange indeed:…
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Relationships
The Pains of Heartbreak
For all the songs and poems and novels written in its honour, the sickness of heartbreak is unlikely to strike…
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