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Buddhist Economics: How to Start Prioritizing People Over Products and Creativity Over Consumption
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 Measure of a Life Well Lived: Henry Miller on Growing Old, the Perils of Success, and the Secret of Remaining Young at Heart
The Measure of a Life Well Lived: Henry Miller on Growing Old, the Perils of Success, and the Secret of Remaining Young at Heart

“If you can fall in love again and again… if you can forgive as well as forget, if you can keep from growing sour, surly, bitter and cynical… you’ve got it half licked.”

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The Theology of Rest: A Modern Sermon About Living with Presence in the Age of Productivity
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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Perseverance, Self-Transcendence, and the “Slow Churn” of Creativity: A Conversation with Artist Rachel Sussman
Perseverance, Self-Transcendence, and the “Slow Churn” of Creativity: A Conversation with Artist Rachel Sussman

How deep time puts our fleeting human lives in perspective, what it takes to persist, and why any meaningful creative endeavor requires sacrifice.

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Herman Melville on Art
Herman Melville on Art

On the mystical mastery of wrestling with the angel.

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How to Get Rich: Paul Graham on Money vs. Wealth
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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Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips on Why a Capacity for Boredom Is Essential for a Full Life
Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips on Why a Capacity for Boredom Is Essential for a Full Life

“Boredom … protects the individual, makes tolerable for him the impossible experience of waiting for something without knowing what it could be.”

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Joyce Carol Oates on Consciousness, Wonder, and the Art of Beholding Beauty
Joyce Carol Oates on Consciousness, Wonder, and the Art of Beholding Beauty

“How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.”

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Love Undetectable: Andrew Sullivan on the Superior Rewards of Friendship in a World Obsessed with Romance
Love Undetectable: Andrew Sullivan on the Superior Rewards of Friendship in a World Obsessed with Romance

Reflections on the cornerstone of our flourishing.

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Grit and the Secret of Success
Grit and the Secret of Success

How to cultivate the character quality that predicts excellence more than any other.

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