Midweek pick-me-up: Hermann Hesse on hope and the wisdom of the inner voice
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01/05/2024
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Hermann Hesse on the two souls within us, blue glass, Virginia Woolf on illness as a portal to self-understanding
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14/01/2024
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(More) resolutions for a vibrant and rewarding life borrowed from inspiring humans (James {NAME}, Kurt Vonnegut, Bertrand Russell, Rilke, and more)
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03/01/2024
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Favorite Children's Books of 2023 — tender reckonings with friendship, fear, love, solitude, black holes, time, and the interconnectedness of life
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21/12/2023
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The paradox of transformative experiences, poetic ecology and the biology of wonder, the sky and the soul
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17/12/2023
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How to apologize, philosopher Martha Nussbaum on the litmus test for love, and an illustrated celebration of the art of shared solitude
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03/12/2023
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Friday Finds (Rilke, Disney, Dating, Music, Social Change)
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20/10/2023
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Ursula K. Le Guin on change, menopause as rebirth and the civilizational value of elders; Dostoyevsky in love; Maxine Kumin's superb poem \"After Love\"
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08/10/2023
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Frida Kahlo on how love amplifies beauty
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13/09/2023
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Yes to Life, in Spite of Everything: Viktor Frankl's lost lectures on the deepest source of meaning
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06/09/2023
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Audre Lorde on the relationship between eros, creativity, power, and joy; a watercolor ode to the courage of authenticity; Virginia Woolf vs. Hitler
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20/08/2023
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Midweek pick-me-up: Rilke on inspiration and the combinatorial nature of creativity
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26/07/2023
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Louisa May Alcott on the creative rewards of being single, parenting advice from Mister Rogers, the wondrous birds of the Himalayas
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23/07/2023
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Midweek pick-me-up: Georgia O'Keeffe on success, public opinion, and what it means to be an artist
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19/07/2023
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Midweek pick-me-up: The paradox of personal transformation
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28/06/2023
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Mélodrame. Rainer Maria Rilke, Viktor Ullmann, concert : mardi 11 avril à 20h
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01/04/2023
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Midweek pick-me-up: Toni Morrison on how to see your body as an instrument of joy, sanity, and self-love
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01/02/2023
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Midweek pick-me-up: Do not despise your inner world — philosopher Martha Nussbaum's advice on life
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25/01/2023
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🌀🐇 #116 enlightenment, escape overthinking, first human photograph
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14/12/2022
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🌀🐇 #115 groundbreaking AI, freefall into future, cosmic lottery
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08/12/2022
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How to make the best of life, M.C. Escher on loneliness and creativity (with a side of Bach and Rachel Carson), and an apple meditation
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09/10/2022
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Midweek pick-me-up: Rilke on the lonely patience of creative work
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05/10/2022
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Of Owls and Roses: Mary Oliver on happiness, fear, and the sublime interconnectedness of life
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06/07/2022
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Cool off with our Summer Event.
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14/06/2022
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Midweek pick-me-up: Virginia Woolf on being ill as a portal to self-understanding and growth
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04/05/2022
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Whitman's hymn to human nature, a forgotten Swiss masterpiece on the evolution of consciousness, the lost botanical art that inspired Emily Dickinson
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01/05/2022
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Midweek pick-me-up: The Book of Delights — poet and gardener Ross Gay's yearlong experiment in willful gladness
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20/04/2022
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Your Monday Briefing
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07/03/2022
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Music, the neural harmonics of emotion, and how love restrings the brain; winter trees as a portal to aliveness; Darwin's greatest regret
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05/12/2021
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How to become a gifted listener; a tender illustrated fable about our capacity for change; the courage to defy cynicism and revise the world's givens
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19/09/2021
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Book Club: Dorothy Parker's final resting place and political publishing's sneaky maneuvers
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27/08/2021
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Art and aliveness, the ultimate animated primer on the Theory of Everything, the remarkable life and art of pioneering plant ecologist Edith Clements
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25/07/2021
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Do people change, the art of ending painful relationships, Hannah Arendt on what forgiveness (really) means, poet Naomi Shihab Nye's advice on writing
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18/07/2021
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Rilke on the relationship between solitude, love, sex, and creativity; Emily Dickinson's botany; the science of how the brain forms and frays memories
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04/07/2021
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Midweek pick-me-up: Rilke on the value of sadness
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28/04/2021
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Gardening as resistance, an ornithologist on the spirituality of science and nature as worship, a Nobel-winning poet's ode to our cosmic humanity
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25/04/2021
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How the science of wintering trees reveals the art of resilience; Calvino on reading and love; Pythagoras & Sappho's revolution of music and the mind
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07/03/2021
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Confucius on the 6 steps to good government and happiness, an animated poem celebrating our connection to nature and to each other, Hubble's legacy
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31/01/2021
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How to live with our human limitations: physicist Brian Greene reads Rilke; Beethoven on how music saved his life; to be an \"Earth ecstatic\"
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27/12/2020
latimes.com
Essential California Week in Review: New crackdowns
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05/12/2020
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Keith Haring on loving life in the face of death, Mary Oliver on what an owl taught her about happiness, the author of \"The Little Prince\" on love
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13/09/2020
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Mountains and the meaning of life, Walt Whitman's workout, a manifesto for walking as spiritual and creative empowerment
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06/09/2020
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Poet and philosopher David Whyte on walking into the questions of our becoming; the existential philosophy of cats; the social psychology of delusion
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23/08/2020
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Creativity in the time of COVID: Zadie Smith on writing, love, and the habit-stripped self; the ancient art of walking mediation; psychedelic fish.
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16/08/2020
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Viktor Frankl's lost lectures on moving beyond optimism and pessimism to find life's deepest meaning; James {NAME} on keeping the light alive & more
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24/05/2020
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A spellbinding reading of Hermann Hesse's 100-year-old love letter to trees, a Chilean picture-book about life and death, an ode to love beyond labels
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10/05/2020
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Astronaut Leland Melvin reads Neruda's love letter to Earth's forests, a color spectrum of sadnesses as a portal to more vibrant aliveness, and more
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03/05/2020
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James {NAME} on how to live through your darkest hour of despair, poet Marie Howe's cosmic serenade to home, physicist Brian Greene on mortality
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26/04/2020
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Neil Gaiman's feminist poem about science, animated;Oliver Jeffers's lovely illustrated fable about enoughness; poet Ross Gay on delight as resistance
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08/12/2019
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Midweek pick-me-up: The difficult art of giving space in love – Rilke on freedom, togetherness, and the secret to a good marriage
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05/12/2019
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What trees can teach us about love and the secret to healthy relationships; the Russell-Einstein manifesto for healing an ailing and divided world
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17/11/2019
nybooks.com
Christopher Benfey on Rodin's foot, reading entrails, and writing about place
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03/08/2019
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\"What Will You Do?\" by Rainer Maria Rilke
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18/05/2019
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For anyone who has ever been ill, or will be ill, or has loved someone ill – which is pretty much all of us – Virginia Woolf on illness; and more.
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12/05/2019
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Seneca on how to live with presence and balance the existential calculus of time; Emily Dickinson on spring; physicist Freeman Dyson on creativity
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21/04/2019
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Midweek pick-me-up: Georgia O'Keeffe on success, public opinion, and what it means to be an artist
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28/03/2019
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\"Pietà\" by Rainer Maria Rilke
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06/01/2019
nybooks.com
This week on the NYR Daily: Gabrielle Bellot on writing, the Caribbean, James {NAME}
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05/01/2019
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Emily Dickinson's electric love letters to Susan Gilbert, Hermann Hesse on hope and the difficult art of taking responsibility, women and power
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16/12/2018
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AWAI - Week in Review, Spotlight Job of the Week, and More ...
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15/12/2018
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Ursula K. Le Guin on suffering and getting to the other side of pain, Beethoven on the creative process, George Sand's only children's book
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02/12/2018
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Rilke on how to break up with integrity and preserve friendship after romance, Adrienne Rich on how reading emancipates, a \"new\" Maurice Sendak book
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30/09/2018
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Walt Whitman on creativity, Toni Morrison on the deepest meaning of love, Martin Buber on what a tree can teach us about seeing each other fully
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16/09/2018
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Rilke on the difficult art of giving space in love and the secret to a good marriage, an illustrated antidote to our existential homelessness and more
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09/09/2018
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The lonely patience of creative work, what it's actually like to live in the stranglehold of anxiety and what it takes to break free, and more
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24/06/2018
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Rilke on creativity, Erich Fromm on the paradox of inner freedom, Lynn Margulis on the spirituality of science, and more
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22/04/2018
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Alan Lightman on our longing for absolutes in a relative world, a tender illustrated celebration of love too large for labels to hold,Obata's Yosemite
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01/04/2018
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Ursula K. Le Guin on storytelling, Nobel-winning physicist Niels Bohr on science and spirituality, Madeleine L'Engle on the wellspring of creativty
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04/02/2018
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The paradox of transformative experiences, astronomer Maria Mitchell on how we co-create each other and recreate ourselves through friendship and more
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17/09/2017
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\"Kettle\" by Phillis Levin
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15/09/2017
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Empathy is a clock that ticks in the consciousness of another, the art of the clean and kind breakup, Sylvia Plath's never before seen visual art
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10/09/2017
twistedsifter.com
Amazing Aztec-Inspired Street Art Mural by Rilke Guillen
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27/07/2017
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How to live with death, the 6 psychological flaws that keep the talented from achieving greatness, a stunning piece on the total solar eclipse of 1869
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16/07/2017
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An illustrated manifesto for creative resilience in dark times, Beethoven's advice on being an artist, Aldous Huxley on science and spirituality
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21/05/2017
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The invention of empathy, Kahlil Gibran on creativity, how Rachel Carson taught us to consider Earth from a nonhuman perspective, and more
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04/03/2017
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How to know everything about everything, Nina Simone on time, Alan Turing on love and loss, Bruce Lee on authenticity and the key to success, and more
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25/02/2017
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Beethoven on how music saved his life, Rachel Carson's brave and prescient 1953 letter against the government's assault on science and nature & more
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11/02/2017
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How libraries save lives, the astonishing science of what trees feel and how they communicate, Rilke on how to be a writer, and more