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The “pro-introvert” advice of writings like Susan Cain’s Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking risks manufac...

The Metta Sutta or Metta prayer, petition, recitation or wish-granting aspiration, is a traditional Buddhist prayer originating in Theravada practice as the Kar...

Every search for a philosophy of solitude runs into Nietzsche, especially the clever aphoristic Thus Spoke Zarathustra. The ancient argument of whether or not a...

Creation stories around the world have presented the same structure, the same basic narrative: a male and a female human being are created (or engendered or fas...

In his recent book The Homing Instinct: Meaning & Mystery in Animal Migration, biologist Bernd Heinrich explores the capacity of animals to define “h...

Blindness is the absence of sight, due to genetics, circumstance, or accident. But for centuries blindness has been used more widely as a metaphor for a stubbor...

Gratitude is an ambiguous term. Does it mean thankfulness for what we have? But as opposed to if we did not have what we have? And what do we have for which to ...

The Edge Foundation sponsors academics discussing their specialties and interests in a popularized context of talks and videos. The effort is not unlike the ear...

Francois Noudelmann’s The Philosopher’s Touch: Sartre, Nietzsche and Barthes at the Piano is an intimate look at the impact of not music alone but t...

The enlightenment experience is viewed differently according to the given spiritual tradition. A structural model is aptly articulated by the Hindu formula R...