The Bhagavad Gita opens with a man paralyzed by an impossible choice. Sound familiar? What Krishna tells Arjuna next is some of the most practically useful wisdom about decision-making you’ll find anywhere.
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Rumi wrote in 13th century Persia. And yet when you read him, it’s like he’s talking to something in you that knew all along. Here are five poems that hit me hardest — and why.
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Nearly 2,000 years ago, the most powerful man in the world kept a private journal he never meant anyone to read. What Marcus Aurelius wrote in the Meditations still speaks directly to the lives we’re trying to live today.
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Carved above the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, ‘Know thyself’ is the oldest instruction in philosophy — and arguably the most ignored. Here’s what self-knowledge actually means, and how to practice it.
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