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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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Auditing Our Worries

Calm

Auditing Our Worries

One of the basic courtesies we almost never remember to pay our worries is to go back and check how…
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Am I a Bad Person?

Self-Knowledge

Am I a Bad Person?

We tend to spend a good deal of psychological energy warding off a possibility that feels as abhorrent as it…
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Understanding Attachment Theory

Relationships

Understanding Attachment Theory

An unusual realisation that lovers may eventually make is that it is hard to envisage successfully navigating any relationship without…
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