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Nineteen Truths and One Beguiling Lie about Life from 20 Years of The...
It is an odd thing, looking back on your life, trying to recognize in the mirror of memory the people you used to be, finding them strangers: the person who kissed your first kiss, the person who drank...
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How to Unself in Order to Be Who You Really Are
“The self, the place where we live, is a place of illusion. Goodness is connected with the attempt to see the unself… to pierce the veil of selfish consciousness and join the world as it really is.” To...
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Celebrating 20 Years of The Marginalian and the Search for Meaning: Free...
At the dawn of my twenties, lonely, destitute, and disoriented by the demands of making a new life in an alien world, I started keeping notes on my search for meaning while working four jobs to pay my...
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No one will map for you the path by which you must cross the wilderness of your own life — not your parents or your teachers, not your heroes or your lovers, not the self-help books or Shakespeare’s...
View ArticleBloom: A Touching Animated Short Film about Depression and What It Takes to...
How the warm rays of hope and healing enter the dark inner chamber of leaden loneliness through the unexpected cracks of kindness. “Sometimes one has simply to endure a period of depression for what it...
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The Single Most Effective Remedy for Despair: Advice from T.H. White’s Merlyn
“Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting.” In his...
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The Day Dostoyevsky Discovered the Meaning of Life in a Dream
“And it is so simple… You will instantly find how to live.” One November night in the 1870s, legendary Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky (November 11, 1821–February 9, 1881) discovered the meaning of...
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The Other Significant Others: Living and Loving Outside the Confines of...
“While we weaken friendships by expecting too little of them, we undermine romantic relationships by expecting too much of them.” We move through the world largely unaware that our emotions are made of...
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Bruce Springsteen on Surviving Depression and His Strategy for Living Through...
“If you can acknowledge it and you can relax with it a little bit, very often it shortens its duration.” It starts with a low hum that adheres itself to the underbelly of the hours like another...
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How to Hold Your Helplessness: Nobel Laureate Bertrand Russell’s Salve for...
“A way of life cannot be successful so long as it is a mere intellectual conviction. It must be deeply felt, deeply believed, dominant even in dreams.” “To be a good human being is to have a kind of...
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How Not to Waste Your Life
“Let me not seem to have lived in vain,” the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe whispered on his deathbed, not realizing that the astronomical tables he was leaving behind would become the portal through...
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An Introvert’s Field Guide to Friendship: Thoreau on the Challenges and...
“We only need to be as true to others as we are to ourselves that there may be ground enough for friendship.” Friendship is the sunshine of life — the quiet radiance that makes our lives not only...
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NostradamusGPT: The Psychology of Prophecy and How to Break Free from the...
This is our paradox: We know that uncertainty is the substrate of the universe, is the crucible of creativity, is the path to truth, and yet we spend our lives searching for certainty. The word...
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Probability Theory Pioneer Mark Kac on the Unpredictability of Creativity and...
“Creative people live in two worlds. One is the ordinary world which they share with others and in which they are not in any special way set apart from their fellow men. The other is private and it is...
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Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing on Breaking Free from the Prisons We Choose to...
This is the history of the world: revolutionaries turning into tyrants, leaders who claim to stand with the masses turning the individuals within them on each other, stirring certainties and...
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Hermann Hesse on How to Read a Book and How to Read Yourself
Books show us what it is like to be another and at the same time return us to ourselves. We read to learn how to live — how to love and how to suffer, how to grieve and how to be glad. We read to...
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James Baldwin on How Love (Finally) Finds You
Our language betrays our self-betrayals: We speak of finding love, as if it were an undiscovered eighth continent or a habitable world in another solar system, as if it got lost like the Little Red...
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The Madman Who Saved Mothers: The Invention of Handwashing and the...
This essay is adapted from Traversal. “Death may snatch me from you, before you can weigh my advice,” Mary Wollstonecraft wrote in the philosophical novel she wouldn’t live to finish, addressing a...
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Ocean of Stars: A Painted Poem About How to Bear the Astonishment of Life
Here we are, bewildered miracles of chemistry and chance, trembling embers of dead stars capable of sign and song, a wild bet against probability that won. We have dreamt up origin myths and...
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How to Say “YES” to Life
It started with an urn for living gone wrong, the clay kiltering off center, resisting my every effort to force it back into shape. The harder I pushed to control it, the more it took on a life of its...
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