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What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Stronger
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July 2024

How Adversity Created a Genius – The Life of Fyodor Dostoevsky
“He did not know that the new life would not be given him for nothing, that he would have to pay dearly for it and that it would cost him great…
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Social Distancing – Why They want You Isolated and Alone
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Free Speech, Censorship, and the Threat of Totalitarianism
"...in those wretched Countries where a Man cannot call his Tongue his own, he can scarce call any Thing else his own.
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June 2024

Unused Creative Energy Destroys You – How to Actualize Your Creative Potential
“…we all possess an inborn creative force that wants to become active…The human mind is naturally creative, constantly looking to make associations and…
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How Depression Facilitates Self-Transformation
“You desire to know the art of living, my friend?
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May 2024

What the West Can Learn from the East – The Wisdom of the Bhagavad Gita
“Pleasures conceived in the world of the senses have a beginning and an end and give birth to misery.
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Pursue Pain, Not Pleasure – Why Comfort is Crippling You
In the 1st century AD, the Greek orator and philosopher Dio Chrysostom wrote:
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The Dangers of Dwelling on the Past – Carl Jung as Therapist
“We should not forget that every neurosis entails a corresponding amount of demoralization.
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April 2024

Are We Enslaved to One Side of the Brain? – The Sickness of Modern Man
“It seems to me that we face very grave crises indeed and that, if we are to survive, we need not just a few new measures, but a complete change of…
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Why Modern Man is Mentally Ill – The Disappearance of Heroism
“…human nature and society can have conflicting demands, and hence a whole society can be sick.”
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March 2024

Why Democracy Leads to Tyranny
“Remember Democracy never lasts long.
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