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Little Panic: A Literary Laboratory Exploring What It Is Like to Live in the Stranglehold of Anxiety and What It Takes to Break Free
“This terrible truth binds us all: fear there’s a single, unattainable, correct way to be human.”
The Paradox of Freedom: The Great Humanistic Philosopher and Psychologist Erich Fromm on Moral Aloneness and Our Mightiest Antidote to Terror
“Modern man still is anxious and tempted to surrender his freedom to dictators of all kinds, or to lose it by transforming himself into a small cog in the machine.”
From Euclid to Equality: Mathematician Lillian Lieber on How the Greatest Creative Revolution in Mathematics Illuminates the Core Ideals of Social Justice and Democracy
An imaginative extension of Euclid’s parallel postulate into life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
The Dialogues: Illustrated Conversations About the Most Thrilling Frontiers of Science by Theoretical Physicist and Self-Taught Artist Clifford Johnson
From black holes to the multiverse, a cosmic comic celebrating the endangered art of human conversation.
When Things Fall Apart: Tibetan Buddhist Nun and Teacher Pema Chödrön on Transformation Through Difficult Times
“Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible be found in us.”
Be Still, Life: A Songlike Illustrated Invitation to Living with Presence
“Be still, life, be still at the break of dawn, and you’ll feel the sun’s light when you hear the morning’s song.”
I and Thou: Philosopher Martin Buber on the Art of Relationship and What Makes Us Real to One Another
“The primary word I–Thou can only be spoken with the whole being. The primary word I–It can never be spoken with the whole being.”
D.H. Lawrence on the Antidote to the Malady of Materialism
“Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease. One feels a sort of madness come over one, as if the world had become hell. But it is only superimposed: it is only a temporary disease. It can be cleaned away.”
A Stoic’s Key to Peace of Mind: Seneca on the Antidote to Anxiety
“There are more things … likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”
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