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Questions To Ask Ourselves About Someone We Are Thinking Of Committing Ourselves To
Imagine that we are wondering whether someone is right for us or not. Certain feelings pull us towards them; others…
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Three Essays on Flight
If we were tasked with showing a visiting Martian the best of human capacities, we could do worst than to take them to the airport for a look around.
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Henri Rousseau
The artist Henri Rousseau — who had no formal training, and who only began painting seriously in his forties — was ridiculed by the critics of his day. Yet he is now celebrated as a visionary genius.
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Charles Dickens’s Secret
Almost no other writer has ever been quite as successful as Charles Dickens. But Dickens spent most of his life hiding a terrible secret — one that helps to shed light on his peculiar genius…
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The Beauty of Komorebi
It is one of the most charming aspects of Japanese culture that it offers up a specific word for what…
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On Those Ruined by Success
For many of us, there is something (or many things) that we seem to really, really want. And then there…
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Why We Have Trouble Getting Back To Sleep
For those of us who have a lot to run away from – and that frightens us – in our…
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We Are All Lonely – Now Can We Be Friends?
However appalling it may feel, loneliness is – in the end – always an illusion; an unfortunate consequence of not…
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On Flying Too Close to the Sun – And Not Flying Close Enough
We are – most of us – likely at some point in childhood to have been told the story of…
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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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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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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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Leisure
The Beauty of Komorebi
It is one of the most charming aspects of Japanese culture that it offers up a specific word for what…
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Self-Knowledge
On Those Ruined by Success
For many of us, there is something (or many things) that we seem to really, really want. And then there…
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Self-Knowledge
Why We Have Trouble Getting Back To Sleep
For those of us who have a lot to run away from – and that frightens us – in our…
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Self-Knowledge
We Are All Lonely – Now Can We Be Friends?
However appalling it may feel, loneliness is – in the end – always an illusion; an unfortunate consequence of not…
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Leisure
On Flying Too Close to the Sun – And Not Flying Close Enough
We are – most of us – likely at some point in childhood to have been told the story of…
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Sociability
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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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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