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How to Remake Yourself When You Are Undone: Lincoln and the Gift of His Suicidal Depression

Life-affirming inspiration from a man who knew intimately “that intensity of thought, which will...

Vincent van Gogh on Fear, Taking Risks, and How Inspired Mistakes Propel Us Forward

“However meaningless and vain, however dead life appears, the man of faith, of energy,...

How to Criticize with Kindness: Philosopher Daniel Dennett on the Four Steps to Arguing Intelligently

“Just how charitable are you supposed to be when criticizing the views of an...

Why Are We Not Better Than We Are

“…a stillness in which the germ of what is not yet palpable pauses and...

Thomas Bernhard on Walking, Thinking, and the Paradox of Self-Reflection

“There is nothing more revealing than to see a thinking person walking, just as there is nothing more revealing than to see a walking...

J.R.R. Tolkien on How to Fall in Love with Life

In 1964, Pantheon Books invited J.R.R. Tolkien (January 3, 1892–September 2, 1973) to write an introduction to George MacDonald’s The Golden Key, which he...

The Fascinating Science of How We Think Not with the Brain But with the World

“By reaching beyond the brain… we are able to focus more intently, comprehend more deeply, and create more imaginatively — to entertain ideas that...

Why Leaves Change Color and How We Become Who We Are: The Science of Chlorophyll and the Poetics of Personhood

“We reach forth and strain every nerve, but we seize only a bit of the curtain that hides the infinite from us.” Autumn is...

Albert Camus on the Source of Strength and How to Save Our Sanity in Trying Times

“In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” In 1957, Albert Camus (November 7, 1913–January 4, 1960)...

How to Change Your Life

HOW TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE by Maria Popova Don’t try to wash your tired hands clean from the bloodshed of your private wars. Just unclench the fist that has come to...

How to Break Free from the Tyranny of Certainty: The Japanese Concept of “Ma”

“Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous ‘I don’t know,'” the Polish poet Wisława Szymborska observed in her magnificent Nobel Prize acceptance speech....

I Long to Read More in the Book of You: Moomins Creator Tove Jansson’s Tender and Passionate Letters to the Love of Her Life

“I’m so unused to being happy that I haven’t really come to terms with what it involves… I feel like a garden that’s finally...

How to Apologize: Reflections on Forgiveness, Self-Forgiveness, and the Vulnerabilities of Being Human

“It’s permitted to receive solace for whatever you did or didn’t do, pitiful, beautiful human.” Few things in life are more painful than seeing ourselves...

How to Handle Provocation: Bertrand Russell’s Remarkable Response to a Fascist

“The emotional universes we inhabit are so distinct, and in deepest ways opposed, that nothing fruitful or sincere could ever emerge from association between...

Wendell Berry on Solitude and the Two Great Enemies of Creative Work

“True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human obligation. One’s inner voices become audible… In consequence, one responds more...

Everything Is Already There: Javier Marías on the Courage to Heed Your Intuitions

“This has nothing to do with premonitions, there is nothing supernatural or mysterious about it, what’s mysterious is that we pay no heed to...

How to Be Reborn Each Day

“Please try to go to hell frequently because you will find the light there.” In their strange cosmogony predating Copernicus by two millennia, the ancient...

Check the Box: Bringing Awareness to Prostate Health

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