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Trying Not to Try: Finding Freedom from Striving in the Ancient Chinese Concept of Wu-Wei
Trying Not to Try: Finding Freedom from Striving in the Ancient 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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Hannah Arendt on the Power of Being an Outsider
Hannah Arendt on the Power of Being an Outsider

“We humanize what is going on in the world and in ourselves only by speaking of it, and in the course of speaking of it we learn to be human.”

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The Wildest Bet Is the Winning Bet
The Wildest Bet Is the Winning Bet

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Marianne Moore on the Three Elements of Persuasive Writing
Marianne Moore on the Three Elements of Persuasive Writing

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Walt Whitman’s Field Guide to Being Yourself: The Trial and Triumph of Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman’s Field Guide to Being Yourself: The Trial and Triumph of Leaves of Grass

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Consolation for Sorrow from King Arthur’s Court: Merlyn’s Advice on What to Do When the World Gets You Down
Consolation for Sorrow from King Arthur’s Court: Merlyn’s Advice on What to Do When the World Gets You Down

“Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting.”

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Mary Oliver on the Measure of a Life Well Lived and How to Magnify Your Aliveness
Mary Oliver on the Measure of a Life Well Lived and How to Magnify Your Aliveness

“Do you need a prod? Do you need a little darkness to get you going?”

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The Black Robin and the Power of Tenacious Tenderness: How a Single Mother Brought an Entire Species Back from the Brink of Extinction
The Black Robin and the Power of Tenacious Tenderness: How a Single Mother Brought an Entire Species Back from the Brink of Extinction

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A Place for Intimacy: bell hooks on Language and Desire
A Place for Intimacy: bell hooks on Language and Desire

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Rehabilitating the Active Imagination: Samantha Harvey on How to Be a Reader in the Age of Fractured Attention
Rehabilitating the Active Imagination: Samantha Harvey on How to Be a Reader in the Age of Fractured Attention

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