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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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Who Deserves Love?
Attempts to render us more loving tend to try to focus our minds on those people that, in the ordinary course of things, we are prone to step over without the slightest thought or feeling of guilt.
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What the Villas of Despots Teach Us About Pride
It is those who strive hardest to defy oblivion who have a particular habit of ending up humiliated by its march.
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Do We Need to Read the News?
While pretending to inform us about the state of the world, the news has become a formidable instrument of self-forgetting.
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Why We May Need a Convalescence
The word ‘convalescent’ has – tellingly and sadly – gone very much out of fashion. In the olden days, it…
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Sociability
How to Have a Renaissance
At the beginning of the 14th century, the leaders of an obscure Tuscan town on the banks of the river…
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Giving Up on Being Special
We’re likely to try out many sorts of lives before we land, finally, on the quiet variety. Rarely does anyone…
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Relationships
Why You Will Never Quite Get it Right in Love
With time, we may be forced to reach a conclusion that, though hugely bitter, demands that we accept it with…
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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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Calm
The Perils of Making Predictions
We tend to get very attached to plan As. We’ll get married, move into a house near the park, work…
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What is a Transcendental Experience?
A ‘transcendental experience’ – from the Latin transcendere, meaning ‘to go beyond’ – denotes a brief, uncommon, ecstatic and revelatory…
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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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Calm
Why We May Need a Convalescence
The word ‘convalescent’ has – tellingly and sadly – gone very much out of fashion. In the olden days, it…
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Sociability
How to Have a Renaissance
At the beginning of the 14th century, the leaders of an obscure Tuscan town on the banks of the river…
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Work
Giving Up on Being Special
We’re likely to try out many sorts of lives before we land, finally, on the quiet variety. Rarely does anyone…
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Relationships
Why You Will Never Quite Get it Right in Love
With time, we may be forced to reach a conclusion that, though hugely bitter, demands that we accept it with…
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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…
View
Calm
The Perils of Making Predictions
We tend to get very attached to plan As. We’ll get married, move into a house near the park, work…
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Calm
What is a Transcendental Experience?
A ‘transcendental experience’ – from the Latin transcendere, meaning ‘to go beyond’ – denotes a brief, uncommon, ecstatic and revelatory…
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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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