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On Being Terrified of Love
Whenever talk turns to being terrified of love, the implication is that the only people ever to be scared of…
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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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Serenity
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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After They Left
For years, we forgot all about ownership. It would have made no sense to ask who owned the little vase…
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Six Reasons Why Being Single is So Awful
Modern culture can be particularly insistent on this point: mature people shouldn’t mind their own company. Mature people should understand…
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Why Hurt People Hurt People
It’s one of the puzzles of relationships that, after a hugely promising few months or years, one of the members…
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‘I Love You, but I Don’t Think We Should Be Together’
We tend to assume that anyone who tells us that they love us – but simultaneously insists that they don’t…
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How to Get Over an Ex by Correcting Our Misfiring Brains
It would be pleasant to believe that we could think our way rationally out of heartbreak. But our minds are…
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Leisure
The Wisdom of Stoicism
Stoicism was a philosophy invented by leading minds in Ancient Greece and Rome to help us cope with agonising periods…
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Calm
The Fear of Losing Control Over Our Bodies
We can be cursed by a particularly pernicious and shame-bounded fear which stops us from flourishing at work, going out…
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Why Isn’t There Peace in the World?
It is evident that life on this planet is far more awful than it needs to be because of something…
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Relationships
After They Left
For years, we forgot all about ownership. It would have made no sense to ask who owned the little vase…
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Relationships
Six Reasons Why Being Single is So Awful
Modern culture can be particularly insistent on this point: mature people shouldn’t mind their own company. Mature people should understand…
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Relationships
Why Hurt People Hurt People
It’s one of the puzzles of relationships that, after a hugely promising few months or years, one of the members…
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Relationships
‘I Love You, but I Don’t Think We Should Be Together’
We tend to assume that anyone who tells us that they love us – but simultaneously insists that they don’t…
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Relationships
How to Get Over an Ex by Correcting Our Misfiring Brains
It would be pleasant to believe that we could think our way rationally out of heartbreak. But our minds are…
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Leisure
The Wisdom of Stoicism
Stoicism was a philosophy invented by leading minds in Ancient Greece and Rome to help us cope with agonising periods…
View
Calm
The Fear of Losing Control Over Our Bodies
We can be cursed by a particularly pernicious and shame-bounded fear which stops us from flourishing at work, going out…
View
Work
Why Isn’t There Peace in the World?
It is evident that life on this planet is far more awful than it needs to be because of something…
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