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The Need for Processing
One of the nicest things that young children do when they get back from school and have a loved one…
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Serenity
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 Need For A Modern Monastery
However much we claim that we would like not to be so anxious, lonely, disconnected and depleted, we seldom systematically…
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Self-Knowledge
How to Raise a Successful Person
A question not just for parents but for anyone reflecting on the constituents of a good life and on their…
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Calm
How to Make It Through
Probably the most remarkable thing about this ostensibly very ordinary painting is that it was made in the last months…
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Calm
Why Illusions Are Necessary to Achieve Anything
We tend to imagine that good and purposeful people must always have an appetite to face the truth. But what…
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Sociability
The Loveliest People in the World
The loveliest people are not the applauded and the haughty ones, the elated and the optimistic ones. They are the…
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Self-Knowledge
12 Signs That You Are Mature in the Eyes of Psychotherapy
As we know only too well, becoming an adult has very little to do with turning 18 or 22, driving…
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Leisure
Eight Rules to Create Nicer Cities
In almost no area of modern life are the potential solutions simpler and our attachment to our errors greater than…
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We Need to Change the Movie We Are In
It would be hard to think of two more different kinds of film than those of Arnold Schwarzenegger on the…
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Calm
The Need For A Modern Monastery
However much we claim that we would like not to be so anxious, lonely, disconnected and depleted, we seldom systematically…
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Self-Knowledge
How to Raise a Successful Person
A question not just for parents but for anyone reflecting on the constituents of a good life and on their…
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Calm
How to Make It Through
Probably the most remarkable thing about this ostensibly very ordinary painting is that it was made in the last months…
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Calm
Why Illusions Are Necessary to Achieve Anything
We tend to imagine that good and purposeful people must always have an appetite to face the truth. But what…
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Sociability
The Loveliest People in the World
The loveliest people are not the applauded and the haughty ones, the elated and the optimistic ones. They are the…
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Self-Knowledge
12 Signs That You Are Mature in the Eyes of Psychotherapy
As we know only too well, becoming an adult has very little to do with turning 18 or 22, driving…
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Leisure
Eight Rules to Create Nicer Cities
In almost no area of modern life are the potential solutions simpler and our attachment to our errors greater than…
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Self-Knowledge
We Need to Change the Movie We Are In
It would be hard to think of two more different kinds of film than those of Arnold Schwarzenegger on the…
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