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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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