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Haikus and Appreciation

We have known how to be calm all along; we’ve just never before been so intently asked to imagine ourselves into feeling so.

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The Call of Calm

This is where we long to be, this is what our hearts crave, this is where we have been trying to get to all our lives.

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What Would Paradise Look Like?

Even if we are hard-core atheists, we should learn to ask ourselves what our particular version of a non-spiritual ‘paradise’ would be like – and take regular imaginative rests there for a time.

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The Courage to Love Again

Relationships

The Courage to Love Again

It’s odd, surely, to use the word ‘courage’ – the thing you need in air raid shelters and cancer wards…
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Eight Rules for Friendship

Sociability

Eight Rules for Friendship

A Community Dedicated to Learning the Art of Friendship We are inclined to think that the secret of great friendship…
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The Repetition Compulsion

Relationships

The Repetition Compulsion

One of the most remarkable ideas in the history of psychoanalysis is to be found in Freud’s 1920 paper ‘Beyond…
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Beware Those We Fall in Love With

Relationships

Beware Those We Fall in Love With

The word ‘madness’ tends to bring to mind distinctly lurid and macabre associations: psychiatric wards, staring eyes, murder weapons, hideous…
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Mental Illness and Love

Self-Knowledge

Mental Illness and Love

When we speculate on the causes of mental illness, we typically imagine some form of chemical imbalance or damage to…
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