Better You: How Journaling Hones Self-Awareness
Notebook-keeping is a way of preserving memories. We write about the self by writing about all the things that gather around it.
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Personal Growth
4 Reasons Why You Should Stop Trying to Fix People
In Erich Fromm’s The Art of Loving, he lists respect as the third component of love. Fromm retraces the element of respect to its root form, written in the Latin as ‘respicere’ or ‘to look at.’ Fromm writes: “Respect is the ability to see a person as he is, to be aware of his unique
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When You Feel Like Giving Up, Look Back On This One Thing
You run out of ‘easy [choices]’ once you reach the ripe age of five.
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I Hope You Feel the Magnitude of Your Place in this Universe
I work from a brown, wooden desk. On my left, a succulent plant with a name I can’t recall stands still as a scarecrow on a cornfield. A few paces to the right, and you’ll find a scented candle set apart by the lavender-colored coaster it rests on. There’s not much to see here, really.
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The Puzzle of Living: Victor Frankl on Meaning, John Lennon’s Beautiful Boy, and Life That Grows Through The Cracks
Most babies come into the world a loud, wailing thing. And while we have no memory of the event, an old quote attributed to Mark Twain claims that it is one of the two most important days of our lives, the second being the day we discover why we came into the world a loud,