The Three Elements of the Good Life To be a true person is to be entirely oneself in every circumstance, with all the courage and vulnerability this requires. And yet because a person is a confederacy of parts often at odds and somet…

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We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt, the Power of Defiant Goodwill, and the Art of Beginning Afresh “It is when the experience of powerlessness is at its most acute, when history seems at its most bleak, that the determination to think like a human being, creatively, courageously, and compl…

“The smallest act in the most limited circumstances,” Hannah Arendt wrote in The Human Condition, “bears the seed of… boundlessness, because one deed, and sometimes one word, suffices to change every constellation.”

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A few titles I'm reading. Some are entirely consumed while in bars and restaurants (which happens when living in Spain 🍷). Some books were gifts! Thanks to the givers! And to the authors. #marginalian #moss #trilobite #minerals #andreawulf #elainemorgan #thomashalliday #carlorovelli #madelaineboehme

The Promethean Power of Burnout “Burnout fully realised is also the decisive, exhausted moment in which we realise we cannot go on in the same way. Not being able to go on, is always in the end, a creative act, the threshol…

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