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On Change and Denial
On Change and Denial

“It’s strange to feel change coming. It’s easy to ignore. An underlying restlessness seems to accompany it like birds flocking before a storm.”

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John Quincy Adams on Impostor Syndrome and the True Measure of Success
John Quincy Adams on Impostor Syndrome and the True Measure of Success

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Adam Phillips on Knowing What You Want, the Art of Self-Revision, and the Courage to Change Your Mind
Adam Phillips on Knowing What You Want, the Art of Self-Revision, and the Courage to Change Your Mind

“Not being able to give up is not to be able to allow for loss, for vulnerability; not to be able to allow for the passing of time, and the revisions it brings.”

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The Wild Iris: Nobel Laureate Louise Glück on the Door at the End of Your Suffering
The Wild Iris: Nobel Laureate Louise Glück on the Door at the End of Your Suffering

“Whatever returns from oblivion returns to find a voice.”

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How to Tell Love from Not-Love: José Ortega y Gasset on the Chronic Confusions of Our Longing
How to Tell Love from Not-Love: José Ortega y Gasset on the Chronic Confusions of Our Longing

“Loving is perennial vivification… a centrifugal act of the soul in constant flux that goes toward the object and envelops it in warm corroboration, uniting us with it and positively affirming its being.”

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A Glow in the Consciousness: The Continuous Creative Act of Seeing Clearly
A Glow in the Consciousness: The Continuous Creative Act of Seeing Clearly

“Simply to look on anything… with the love that penetrates to its essence, is to widen the domain of being in the vastness of non-being.”

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The Messiah in the Mountain: Darwin on Wonder and the Spirituality of Nature
The Messiah in the Mountain: Darwin on Wonder and the Spirituality of Nature

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John Gardner on the Key to Self-Renewal Across Life and the Art of Making Rather Than Finding Meaning
John Gardner on the Key to Self-Renewal Across Life and the Art of Making Rather Than Finding Meaning

“The potentialities you develop to the full come as the result of an interplay between you and life’s challenges.”

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The Paradise Notebooks: A Poet and a Geologist’s Love Letter to Life Lensed Through a Mountain
The Paradise Notebooks: A Poet and a Geologist’s Love Letter to Life Lensed Through a Mountain

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Shame and the Secret Chambers of the Self: Pioneering Sociologist and Philosopher Helen Merrell Lynd on the Uncomfortable Path to Wholeness
Shame and the Secret Chambers of the Self: Pioneering Sociologist and Philosopher Helen Merrell Lynd on the Uncomfortable Path to Wholeness

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