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Sleep and the Meaning of Life: Fernando Pessoa on the Existential Dimension of the Horizontal Hours
One of the most important things I have learned about living is that, in any life of purpose and creative vitality, you must be as religious and disciplined about your sleep as about your work. And yet one of the great self-betrayals of our culture is the way it wears the lack of sleep as…
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Carl Jung on Creativity
The question of what it takes to create — to make something of beauty and substance that touches other lives across space and time — is one of the deepest, oldest questions, perhaps because the answer to it is so unbearably simple: everything. We bring everything we are and everything we have lived to every…
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Rewriting the Drinking Story: Four Pillars for Empowered Sobriety
“You really need to drink less.” That’s what people kept telling me toward the end of my drinking career. The truth was I completely agreed but just didn’t know how. At age 26, I was diagnosed with Alcohol Use Disorder. Intuitively, I knew drinking was only the surface. The deeper questions—what’s underneath, and how do…
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What Birds Dream About: The Evolution of REM and How We Practice the Possible in Our Sleep
“It may be that in REM, this gloaming between waking consciousness and the unconscious, we practice the possible into the real… It may be that we evolved to dream ourselves into reality — a laboratory of consciousness that began in the bird brain.” This essay originally appeared in The New York Times I once dreamed…
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Does the Legalization of Same-Sex Marriage Infringe on Religious Liberty?
In June 2015 the United States Supreme Court ruled in favor of the legality of same-sex marriage. Many states had already legalized it and most Americans thought it should be legal. As such, the ruling was consistent both with the constitution and with the democratic ideal of majority rule. There are, of course, those who…
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