On love and desire, The Universe in Verse book, inside the creative process of beloved artists
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05/05/2024
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The light between us, the whyless wonder of the birds-of-paradise, Henry Miller on friendship and the relationship between creativity and community
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10/12/2023
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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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May Sarton on the work of happiness, John Berger on the power of music, the forgotten Scottish philosopher John Macmurray on the key to wholeness
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02/07/2023
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Robert Louis Stevenson on what makes life worth living, William James on the art of connection, Richard Jefferies on nature as prayer for presence
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11/06/2023
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Jealousy and its antidote, the key to joy, Kahlil Gibran on the art of growing older
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09/04/2023
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Midweek pick-me-up: \"Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real.\"
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05/04/2023
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Bertrand Russell on the secret of happiness, Leonard Cohen on what makes a saint, a soulful meditation on life with and liberation from depression
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26/02/2023
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John Steinbeck on the true meaning and purpose of hope, Lynn Margulis on symbiosis and the unself, Richard Powers on our cosmic luck
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08/01/2023
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\"Goodnight Moon\" author Margaret Wise Brown's little-known philosophical children's book about love and loss, a two-wheel story of the world, and more
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02/10/2022
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Emerson on how to trust yourself and what solitude really means, Henry Miller on the secret to growth in art and in life, a Victorian prophecy of AI
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25/09/2022
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Color and consciousness; superb advice on growing old, growing young, and becoming your fullest self; an invitation to unselfing
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18/09/2022
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Philosopher Alain Badiou on why we fell and how we stay in love
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20/07/2022
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Rumi on love, Iris Murdoch on our search for truth and goodness, Margaret Wise Brown on the puzzle of what makes a thing itself (and you yourself)
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03/04/2022
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A 400-year-old remedy for melancholy, how Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh found himself and lost his self in a library epiphany, and old French fairy tales
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30/01/2022
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What happens when we die, Iris Murdoch on what love really means and its symmetry with art, the woman who brought the \"submarine fairyland\" to life
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16/01/2022
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Fractals and the hidden order beneath the chaos of life; what the lives of great artists reveal about vulnerability, loneliness, love, and resistance
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28/02/2021
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Viktor Frankl on how music, nature, and our love for each other succor our survival and give meaning to existence, Virginia Woolf on reading, and more
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19/07/2020
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An antidote to helplessness and disorientation: Erich Fromm on our fragility as the key to sanity and survival, Whitman's ode to our interleaved lives
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29/03/2020
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Iris Murdoch on how nature and art allow us to \"unself,\" Ursula K. Le Guin's playful and poignant letter-poem about why we read, and a life-straw