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Sam Shepard in Love, on Love
“There can be a real meeting between two people at the point where they always felt marooned. Right at the edge.”
You Are Not the Target: Laura Huxley on Course-Correcting the Paths of Love and Not-Love
“In all its manifestations and however it is produced, not-love tends to beget not-love. The energy of love is needed to reconvert not-love into love.”
Love and Will: The Great Existential Psychologist Rollo May on Apathy, Transcendence, and Our Human Task in Times of Radical Transition
“In every act of love and will — and in the long run they are both present in each genuine act — we mold ourselves and our world simultaneously. This is what it means to embrace the future.”
Simone de Beauvoir on Atheism, the Ultimate Frontier of Hope, and the Key to Moving Beyond the Simplistic Divide of Optimism and Pessimism
“To fight unhappiness one must first expose it, which means that one must dispel the mystifications behind which it is hidden so that people do not have to think about it.”
How Do You Know That You Love Somebody? Philosopher Martha Nussbaum’s Incompleteness Theorem of the Heart’s Truth, from Plato to Proust
“The alternations between love and its denial, suffering and denial of suffering … constitute the most essential and ubiquitous structural feature of the human heart.”
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.”
Alain de Botton on Infatuation
“The only people who can still strike us as normal are those we don’t yet know very well.”
The Gold Leaf: An Enchanting Modern Fable About the Antidote to Our Selfish Impulses
A gentle reminder that the most beautiful things in life belong to no one and to everyone.
Sociological Machiavellianism: Peter Berger on Compassion and the Humanistic Antidote to Cynicism
“Cynicism about society is not the only option besides a credulous conformity to this social aeon or a credulous looking-forward to the one that is to come.”
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