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The Pleasure of Being Left Alone
The Pleasure of Being Left Alone

“An exquisite peace obtains: a drowsy, golden peace, flowing honey-sweet over my dwelling, soaking it, dripping like music from the walls… A peace for gods; a divine emptiness.”

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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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No One You Love Is Ever Dead: Hemingway on the Most Devastating of Losses and the Meaning of Life
No One You Love Is Ever Dead: Hemingway on the Most Devastating of Losses and the Meaning of Life

“We must live it, now, a day at a time and be very careful not to hurt each other.”

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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 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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The Paradoxes and Possibilities of Transformation: Adam Phillips on Our Ambivalent Desire for Change
The Paradoxes and Possibilities of Transformation: Adam Phillips on Our Ambivalent Desire for Change

“There is no description of a life without an account of the changes that are possible within it.”

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Polyvagal Theory and the Neurobiology of Connection: The Science of Rupture, Repair, and Reciprocity
Polyvagal Theory and the Neurobiology of Connection: The Science of Rupture, Repair, and Reciprocity

“The mind narrates what the nervous system knows. Story follows state.”

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On Giving Up: Adam Phillips on Knowing What You Want, the Art of Self-Revision, and the Courage to Change Your Mind
On Giving Up: 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 Work of Art: Inside the Creative Process of Beloved Artists, Poets, Musicians, and Other Makes of Meaning
The Work of Art: Inside the Creative Process of Beloved Artists, Poets, Musicians, and Other Makes of Meaning

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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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