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Along with the traditional four elements of true love—loving kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity—there are two more elements: respect and trust.
How to Love
Thich Nhat Hanh and Jason DeAntonis
If, as Gopnik hypothesizes, “childhood is a way of injecting noise—and novelty—into the system of cultural evolution,” psychedelics might do the same thing for the system of the adult mind.
How to Change Your Mind
Michael Pollan
CULTURE Let's start here: culture' is everything we don't have to do. We have to eat, but we don't have to have cuisines, Big Macs or Tournedos Rossini. We have to cover ourselves against the weather, but we don't have to be so concerned as we are about whether we put on Levi's or Yves Saint-Laurent.
We have to move about the face of the globe, but we don't have to dance.
These other things, we choose to do. We could survive if we chose not to.
A Year With Swollen Appendices
Brian Eno
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