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How to Wait Better: The Psychology of Withstanding Absence and Missing Someone You Love
How to Wait Better: The Psychology of Withstanding Absence and Missing Someone You Love

On “the capacity to bear frustration without turning against one’s needy self, or against the person one needs.”

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Winnicott on the Qualities of a Healthy Mind and a Healthy Relationship
Winnicott on the Qualities of a Healthy Mind and a Healthy Relationship

“A sign of health in the mind is the ability of one individual to enter imaginatively and yet accurately into the thoughts and feelings and hopes and fears of another person; also to allow the other person to do the same to us.”

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How to See More Clearly and Love More Purely: Iris Murdoch on the Angst of Not Knowing Ourselves and Each Other
How to See More Clearly and Love More Purely: Iris Murdoch on the Angst of Not Knowing Ourselves and Each Other

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Beyond Either/Or: Kierkegaard on the Passion for Possibility and the Key to Resetting Relationships
Beyond Either/Or: Kierkegaard on the Passion for Possibility and the Key to Resetting Relationships

“Were I to wish for anything I would not wish for wealth and power, but for the passion of the possible, that eye which everywhere, ever young, ever burning, sees possibility.”

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The Humanistic Philosopher and Psychologist Erich Fromm on Love and the Meaning of Respect
The Humanistic Philosopher and Psychologist Erich Fromm on Love and the Meaning of Respect

“Care and responsibility are constituent elements of love, but without respect for and knowledge of the beloved person, love deteriorates into domination and possessiveness.”

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Rupture Precedes Revolution: Geologist Turned Psychoanalyst Ruth Allen on Boundaries and Limits as Frontiers of Transformation and Growth
Rupture Precedes Revolution: Geologist Turned Psychoanalyst Ruth Allen on Boundaries and Limits as Frontiers of Transformation and Growth

“At almost every conceivable level of our imagining, it is impossible to create a change without a discontinuity, without a moment of not knowing who we are, or what we are going to become. Rupture precedes revolution.”

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Turning to Stone: A Geologist’s Love Letter to the Wisdom of Rocks
Turning to Stone: A Geologist’s Love Letter to the Wisdom of Rocks

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Trauma, Growth, and How to Be Twice as Alive: Tove Jansson on the Worm and the Art of Self-Renewal
Trauma, Growth, and How to Be Twice as Alive: Tove Jansson on the Worm and the Art of Self-Renewal

“Nothing is easy when you might come apart in the middle at any moment.”

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200 Years of Solitude: Great Writers, Artists, and Scientists on the Creative and Spiritual Rewards of Fertile Aloneness
200 Years of Solitude: Great Writers, Artists, and Scientists on the Creative and Spiritual Rewards of Fertile Aloneness

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Nobel-Winning Poet Joseph Brodsky on the Remedy for Existential Boredom
Nobel-Winning Poet Joseph Brodsky on the Remedy for Existential Boredom

“Try to stay passionate, leave your cool to constellations. Passion, above all, is a remedy against boredom. Another one, of course, is pain… passion’s frequent aftermath.”

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