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Darwin’s Battle with Anxiety

A posthumous diagnosis of the paralyzing mental malady that afflicted one of humanity’s greatest minds.

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“Don’t Read Books!” A 12th-Century Zen Poem

“It’s annoying for others to have to hear you.”

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Physician Allison Ballantine’s Short, Stirring Commencement Address on Living with Presence

How the hamster wheel of achievement and approval can cheat us.

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How to Get Rich: Paul Graham on Money vs. Wealth

Debunking the pie fallacy, or why there’s more to success than giving people what they want.

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Kierkegaard on Our Greatest Source of Unhappiness

“Of all ridiculous things the most ridiculous seems to me, to be busy.”

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How We Know What We Know: The Art of Seeing with the Eye of the Heart

A timeless guide to “understanding the truth that does not merely inform the mind but liberates the soul.”

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A Guide for the Perplexed: Mapping the Meaning of Life and the Four Levels of Being

How to harness the uniquely human power of “consciousness recoiling upon itself.”

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Buddhist Economics: How to Start Prioritizing People Over Products and Creativity Over Consumption

“Work and leisure are complementary parts of the same living process and cannot be separated without destroying the joy of work and the bliss of leisure.”

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The Theology of Rest: A Modern Sermon About Living with Presence in the Age of Productivity

“Rest, instead of being something passive, is actually an act of resistance.”

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Trying Not to Try: How to Cultivate the Paradoxical Art of Spontaneity Through the Chinese Concept of Wu-Wei

“Our modern conception of human excellence is too often impoverished, cold, and bloodless. Success does not always come from thinking more rigorously or striving harder.”

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Search results for “alan watts”

A posthumous diagnosis of the paralyzing mental malady that afflicted one of humanity’s greatest minds.

“It’s annoying for others to have to hear you.”

How the hamster wheel of achievement and approval can cheat us.

Debunking the pie fallacy, or why there’s more to success than giving people what they want.

“Of all ridiculous things the most ridiculous seems to me, to be busy.”

A timeless guide to “understanding the truth that does not merely inform the mind but liberates the soul.”

How to harness the uniquely human power of “consciousness recoiling upon itself.”

“Work and leisure are complementary parts of the same living process and cannot be separated without destroying the joy of work and the bliss of leisure.”

“Rest, instead of being something passive, is actually an act of resistance.”

“Our modern conception of human excellence is too often impoverished, cold, and bloodless. Success does not always come from thinking more rigorously or striving harder.”

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