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The Three Elements of the Good Life
The Three Elements of the Good Life

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The Only Three Distinctions Between People
The Only Three Distinctions Between People

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Music, the Neural Harmonics of Emotion, and How Love Recomposes the Brain
Music, the Neural Harmonics of Emotion, and How Love Recomposes the Brain

“Who we are and who we become depends, in part, on whom we love.”

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The Log from the Sea of Cortez: John Steinbeck’s Forgotten Masterpiece on How to Think and the Art of Seeing the Pattern Beyond the Particular
The Log from the Sea of Cortez: John Steinbeck’s Forgotten Masterpiece on How to Think and the Art of Seeing the Pattern Beyond the Particular

“Everything impinges on everything else… Everything is potentially everywhere.”

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The Enemy Outside and the Enemy Within: Audre Lorde’s Antidote to Despair
The Enemy Outside and the Enemy Within: Audre Lorde’s Antidote to Despair

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An Introvert’s Field Guide to Friendship: Thoreau on the Challenges and Rewards of Candid Connection
An Introvert’s Field Guide to Friendship: Thoreau on the Challenges and Rewards of Candid Connection

“We only need to be as true to others as we are to ourselves that there may be ground enough for friendship.”

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Against Self-Criticism: Adam Phillips on How Our Internal Critics Enslave Us, the Stockholm Syndrome of the Superego, and the Power of Multiple Interpretations
Against Self-Criticism: Adam Phillips on How Our Internal Critics Enslave Us, the Stockholm Syndrome of the Superego, and the Power of Multiple Interpretations

“In broaching the possibility of being, in some way, against self-criticism, we have to imagine a world in which celebration is less suspect than criticism.”

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Oliver Sacks on Memory, Originality, and Why Forgetting is Necessary for Creativity
Oliver Sacks on Memory, Originality, and Why Forgetting is Necessary for Creativity

“Memory is dialogic and arises not only from direct experience but from the intercourse of many minds.”

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In Praise of the Useless: Bertrand Russell’s Salve for Hard Times
In Praise of the Useless: Bertrand Russell’s Salve for Hard Times

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Philosopher Martha Nussbaum on How to Live with Our Human Fragility
Philosopher Martha Nussbaum on How to Live with Our Human Fragility

“To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control.”

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