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How to Doubt Your Way into a Truer Life
The most maddening thing about life is also the most beautiful: its indeterminacy. The course of our lives, the fate of our species, the future of the universe: all undecided. But because possibility...
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How Memory Makes Us and Breaks Truth: The Rashomon Effect and the Science of...
“We are our memory… that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.” It is already disorienting enough to accept that our attention only absorbs a fraction of the events and...
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Sleeping Beauties: David Byrne on Why Transformative Ideas Fall Dormant and...
Each time you look up at the night sky, you see only ancient signals — by the time a photon has reached your pupil, the star that emitted it may be long dead. The great wonder is that its light can...
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Improvisation and the Quantum of Consciousness
Inside the brain’s secret portal to remembering the future. Few things in life are more vivifying than a shimmering reminder that we can still surprise ourselves — those rare moments when the urn of...
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How to Remake Yourself When You Are Undone: Lincoln and the Gift of His...
Life-affirming inspiration from a man who knew intimately “that intensity of thought, which will some times wear the sweetest idea thread-bare and turn it to the bitterness of death.” “I am now the...
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Vincent van Gogh on Fear, Taking Risks, and How Inspired Mistakes Propel Us...
“However meaningless and vain, however dead life appears, the man of faith, of energy, of warmth… steps in and does something.” During our recent conversation at the Boston Book Festival, the wise and...
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Walt Whitman, Shortly After His Paralytic Stroke, on What Makes Life Worth...
“Tone your wants and tastes low down enough, and make much of negatives, and of mere daylight and the skies.” “Do you need a prod?” the poet Mary Oliver asked in her sublime meditation on living with...
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Inner Space, Outer Space, and How to Be an Astronaut in the Cosmos of...
“A star is the glowing light inside the other person, distantly seen, brave soul’s tiny flame, too bright to approach without great courage and integrity.” We move among surfaces. If we are lucky...
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How to Handle a Narcissistic and Abusive Parent: Kafka’s Remarkable Letter to...
“It is, after all, not necessary to fly right into the middle of the sun, but it is necessary to crawl to a clean little spot on earth where the sun sometimes shines and one can warm oneself a little.”...
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How to Speak Forest
“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way,” William Blake wrote in his most passionate letter. “As a man is, so he sees.” Because we...
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Why Are We Not Better Than We Are
“…a stillness in which the germ of what is not yet palpable pauses and gathers to begin one more time.” “A life of patient suffering… is a better poem in itself than we can any of us write,” the young...
View ArticleBut We Had Music: Nick Cave Reads an Animated Poem about How to Be More Alive
How, knowing that even the universe is dying, do we bear our lives? Most readily, through friendship, through connection, through co-creating the world we want to live in for the brief time we have...
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A Constellation of Amazements: An Illustrated Love Letter to the Joy of...
We are hunter-gatherers with a capacity for amazement, wired to search for an organizing principle by which to contain the chaos of reality. We organize what we find into categories and hierarchies,...
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How to Criticize with Kindness: Philosopher Daniel Dennett on the Four Steps...
“Just how charitable are you supposed to be when criticizing the views of an opponent?” “In disputes upon moral or scientific points,” Arthur Martine counseled in his magnificent 1866 guide to the art...
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Loneliness, Resilience, and the Right Choice: Poet Diane Ackerman on What She...
“So often loneliness comes from being out of touch with parts of oneself.” “How are we so optimistic, so careful not to trip and yet do trip, and then get up and say OK?” Maira Kalman pondered in her...
View ArticleDavid Bowie on Creativity and His Advice to Artists
“It’s terribly dangerous for an artist to fulfill other people’s expectations” Every creator’s creations are their coping mechanism for life — for the loneliness of being, for the longing for...
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Nietzsche on Walking and Creativity
“Our first questions about the value of a book, of a human being, or a musical composition are: Can they walk? Even more, can they dance?” Almost everything I write, I “write” in the notebook of the...
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Mister Rogers on the Most Important Mindset for a Parent
“It’s part of being human to fall short of that total acceptance and ultimate understanding — and often far short.” Being responsible for ourselves, knowing our own wants and meeting them, is difficult...
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The Importance of Being Scared: Polish Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska on...
“Andersen had the courage to write stories with unhappy endings. He didn’t believe that you should try to be good because it pays … but because evil stems from intellectual and emotional stuntedness...
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Dostoyevsky on What Makes a Good Person
We know good people when we encounter them, when they fall upon our lives like a sunbeam, like a song. But we don’t always know what makes them good. It has, of course, a lot to do with kindness. It...
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