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Between Sinew and Spirit: Are You a Body with a Mind or a Mind with a Body?
Between Sinew and Spirit: Are You a Body with a Mind or a Mind with a Body?

An animated journey to the center of the self.

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An Alternative View of Human Nature: Rebecca Solnit on Crisis as a Catalyst for Dignity, Agency, and Human Goodness
An Alternative View of Human Nature: Rebecca Solnit on Crisis as a Catalyst for Dignity, Agency, and Human Goodness

“The constellations of solidarity, altruism, and improvisation are within most of us and reappear at these times.”

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The Five Invitations: What Thousands of People’s Deathbed Reflections Reveal About the Building Blocks of a Life Worth Living
The Five Invitations: What Thousands of People’s Deathbed Reflections Reveal About the Building Blocks of a Life Worth Living

“The sort of fearless openness required to turn toward our suffering is only possible within the spacious receptivity of love.”

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Having It Out with Melancholy: Amanda Palmer Reads Jane Kenyon’s Stunning Poem About Living to the Other Side of Depression
Having It Out with Melancholy: Amanda Palmer Reads Jane Kenyon’s Stunning Poem About Living to the Other Side of Depression

“What hurt me so terribly all my life until this moment?”

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Anatomy of Hatred: The Paradoxical Psychology of How That Which Repels Us Binds Us
Anatomy of Hatred: The Paradoxical Psychology of How That Which Repels Us Binds Us

“The closer the likeness … the more virulent the hatred.”

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Oliver Sacks on the Three Essential Elements of Creativity
Oliver Sacks on the Three Essential Elements of Creativity

“It takes a special energy, over and above one’s creative potential, a special audacity or subversiveness, to strike out in a new direction once one is settled.”

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A Life of One’s Own: A Penetrating Century-Old Field Guide to Self-Possession, Mindful Perception, and the Art of Knowing What You Really Want
A Life of One’s Own: A Penetrating Century-Old Field Guide to Self-Possession, Mindful Perception, and the Art of Knowing What You Really Want

“I did not know that I could only get the most out of life by giving myself up to it.”

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Existential Psychologist Rollo May on Freedom and the Significance of the Pause
Existential Psychologist Rollo May on Freedom and the Significance of the Pause

“Freedom is the capacity to pause in the face of stimuli from many directions at once and, in this pause, to throw one’s weight toward this response rather than that one.”

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The Vampire Problem: A Brilliant Thought Experiment Illustrating the Paradox of Transformative Experience
The Vampire Problem: A Brilliant Thought Experiment Illustrating the Paradox of Transformative Experience

“Many of [life’s] big decisions involve choices to have experiences that teach us things we cannot know about from any other source but the experience itself.”

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Trailblazing Astronomer Maria Mitchell on How We Co-Create Each Other and Recreate Ourselves Through Friendship
Trailblazing Astronomer Maria Mitchell on How We Co-Create Each Other and Recreate Ourselves Through Friendship

“Whatever our degree of friends may be, we come more under their influence than we are aware.”

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