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On Feeling Manic

Many of us are prone to slip into states of mind we might call ‘manic’ – in which we run obsessively and at high speed away from something within us that asks for our attention and yet feels intolerably raw and overwhelming.

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Might I Be Feeling Lonely Rather Than Worried?

We might ask a question of our mood that sounds deliberately and provocatively strange: Might I principally, at heart, be lonely rather than worried?

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The Ecstatic Joy We Deny Ourselves

What if we didn’t always have to be as sad and as anxious as we usually are? What if we surrendered to loving and to being loved?

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The Sorrows of Love

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The Sorrows of Love

Louis-Léopold Boilly, Les Malheurs de l’amour (The Sorrows of Love), 1790 If we happened to pass this painting in its home –…
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The Brutality of Dating

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The Brutality of Dating

The word ‘brutal’ may sound a little hyperbolic and self-pitying when applied to an activity whose chief outward requirements involve…
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