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The Art of Choosing Love Over Not-Love: Rumi’s Antidote to Our Human Tragedy 4 Sept
The Power of Being a Threshold Person: Liminality, Communitas, and the Anti-structures of Possibility 4 Sept
Everything Is Already There: Javier Marías on the Courage to Heed Your Intuitions 4 Sept
Wendell Berry on Solitude and the Two Great Enemies of Creative Work 3 Sept
The Creative Power of Uncertainty: Polish Poet Wisława Szymborska’s Magnificent Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech 3 Sept
Italo Calvino on Reading and Sex 3 Sept
The Paradox of Knowing Who You Are and What You Want: Cristina Campo on Fairy Tales, Time, and the Meaning of Maturity 2 Sept
Wendell Berry on Hope, Despair, and the Measure of Effective Protest 2 Sept
How to Have Enough: Wendell Berry on Creativity and Love 2 Sept
The Invention of Zero: How Ancient Mesopotamia Created the Mathematical Concept of Nought and Ancient India Gave It Symbolic Form 2 Sept
The Thing Itself: C.S. Lewis on What We Long for in Our Existential Longing 2 Sept
A Lei for Your Losses: Joan Didion on the Art of Letting Go 1 Sept
The 3 Buddhist Steps to Repairing a Relationship 1 Sept
How Do We Know What We Want: Milan Kundera on the Central Ambivalences of Life and Love 1 Sept
A Parliament of Owls and a Murder of Crows: How a Forgotten Medieval Woman Gave Groups of Birds Their Strange Names, with Wondrous Vintage Illustrations by Brian Wildsmith 31 Aug
The Art of Solitude: Buddhist Scholar and Teacher Stephen Batchelor on Contemplative Practice and Creativity 31 Aug
The Bird in You, the World in You, and the Art of Trusting Time: Ceramics, Serpentine, and How to Get Over Heartbreak 31 Aug
How We Render Reality: Attention as an Instrument of Love 31 Aug
Matter, Memory, and the Paradox of Perception: Henri Bergson on How to See Reality 30 Aug
Frankenstein Author Mary Shelley on the Surest Remedy for a Sunken Spirit and What Makes Life Worth Living 30 Aug
The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise 19 Dec 2023 Lovedaffiliate link
Notes on Complexity: A Scientific Theory of Connection, Consciousness, and Being 19 Dec 2023 Lovedaffiliate link
The Transcendent Brain: Spirituality in the Age of Science 19 Dec 2023 Lovedaffiliate link
The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality 19 Dec 2023 Lovedaffiliate link
The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality 19 Dec 2023 Lovedaffiliate link
Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier 19 Dec 2023 Lovedaffiliate link
What Looks Like Bravery 19 Dec 2023 Lovedaffiliate link
How to Say Goodbye 19 Dec 2023 Lovedaffiliate link
Leaning toward Light: Poems for Gardens 19 Dec 2023 Lovedaffiliate link
Archives of Joy: Reflections on Animals and the Nature of Being 19 Dec 2023 Lovedaffiliate link
The Asking 19 Dec 2023 Lovedaffiliate link