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Not all tolerance is created equal. One kind protects you. The other just teaches your nervous system to stop talking to you.

What makes life so disorienting is that its greatest revelations and greatest transformations are inarticulable. William James knew this when he listed ineffability as the first of the four features of transcendent experiences. Everything beautiful and meaningful, from the grand elations to the small gladnesses that make life worth living, is irreducible to words, is…

In praise of “the gaiety of those who have nothing more to lose and so excel at giving.” The weather has seeded our earliest myths, inspired some of our greatest art, and even affects the way we think. In our divisive culture, where sharped-edged differences continue to fragment our unity, it is often the sole…

Weekend Wisdom: You can remove a significant amount of stress from your life simply by reducing the number of items in your wardrobe. A wardrobe change-up is definitely in the air. I don’t mean buying new things… The post 8 minimalist habits + a fall cleaning checklist appeared first on Be More with Less.

“And it is so simple… You will instantly find how to live.” One November night in the 1870s, legendary Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky (November 11, 1821–February 9, 1881) discovered the meaning of life in a dream — or, at least, the protagonist in his final short story did. The piece, which first appeared in the…

“We reach forth and strain every nerve, but we seize only a bit of the curtain that hides the infinite from us.” Autumn is the season of ambivalence and reconciliation, soft-carpeted training ground for the dissolution that awaits us all, low-lit chamber for hearing more intimately the syncopation of grief and gladness that scores our…

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We are excited to announce that Wade Munroe will be joining us as one of our new associate editors! Wade is an Assistant Professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His work focuses on the philosophy of language and thought. For the blog, Wade will host a series featuring work by …

This is the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks. This event profoundly changed America and has been routinely exploited by politicians to wage a war on terror and to create the modern surveillance state we now live in. A direct line can, of course, be drawn back from Trump’s war against Iran to this…

“Every thought that has ever passed through your brain was made possible by plants.” “A leaf of grass is no less than the journey work of the stars,” Walt Whitman wrote a decade before Darwin gasped at how incomprehensible “the marvelous complexity” of organic beings is, insisting that “each living creature must be looked at…