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In short, what protects a marriage? (DANIEL GOLEMAN)

Given the grim potential outcome of the differences in how men and women deal with distressing feelings in their relationship, what can couples do to...

16 January, 2022

The ant (AESOP)

Long ago, the creature who is today an ant used to be a man who was always busy farming. Still, he was not...

15 January, 2022

Out from Behind this Mask… (WALT WHITMAN)

OUT from behind this bending, rough-cut Mask, (All straighter, liker Masks rejected—this preferr’d,) This common curtain of the face, contain’d in me for me, in...

14 January, 2022

We will likely regret the things we did not try. (JOHN IZZO)

To leave no regrets we must live with courage, moving toward what we want rather than away from what we fear. To leave...

13 January, 2022

INTRODUCTION OR CONCLUSION? (BERTRAND RUSSELL)

I allow myself to hope that the world will emerge from its present troubles, that it will one day learn to give the...

12 January, 2022

Whatever is not true will not survive (DON MIGUEL RUIZ)

Almost everything in this world of illusion is a lie. That is why I ask my apprentices to follow three rules for seeing...

11 January, 2022

Since then mountains and torrential rivers and whatever separates us… (FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE)

We were once on a time so near one another in the course of our lives, that nothing more seemed to hinder our...

10 January, 2022

GUILT (GIOVANNI FRAZZETTO)

Like anger, guilt is shaped by personal values and by the behavioural codes and norms of the culture in which we live. However,...

09 January, 2022

On the Exotic (ALAIN DE BOTTON)

In the first half of the nineteenth century, the term "exotic" became synonymous with the Middle East. When Victor Hugo published his cycle...

08 January, 2022

The Runaway Trolley (MICHAEL J. SANDEL)

What, in short, does moral reasoning consist in? To see how moral reasoning can proceed, let’s turn to a fanciful hypothetical story much discussed...

07 January, 2022