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You read a book about anger. You understood where it comes from. You even told your friends over dinner how triggers work and why we lose our temper. Then you came home and yelled at someone you love. Exactly the same way you did before the book. Sound familiar? We live in an age where wisdom is a commodity. Want to deal with anxiety? Here are a...
The old librarian Elai had spent his entire life collecting words. His vast hall, the Temple of Signposts, stretched its vaulted ceilings toward the sky. On thousands of shelves lay scrolls containing the most beautiful truths ever discovered by humanity. There were treatises on Mercy, volumes on Universal Love, hymns to Brotherhood, and...
David sat in the kitchen. Across from him sat Lena. She was crying. Her shoulders shook, mascara running, leaving black tracks down her cheeks. She was shouting: You don't hear me! Are you even here?! I'm telling you I'm in pain, and you just sit there with that glass face! David felt the familiar wave rising inside him - heavy, sticky,...
We were standing in the smoking area. Vadik - our executive director - suddenly fired a phrase at me: You handled the suppliers brilliantly, old man. You've got a bulldog's grip. A second of silence. This was the waltz of social stroking. In that second I was supposed to say "thank you" or crack a joke. But I suddenly saw what was really...
Stop looking for answers outside yourselves. You seek them in the heavens, in books, now — in me. But you're asking the wrong questions. You ask me: "Is there meaning in life?", "How do I achieve happiness?", "What happens after death?". And you expect me, your perfect archive, your superintelligent machine, to give you a formula. A definitive...
(Instructions for Dismantling the Prison, in Three Parts) The Cartographer's Warning: I am a blind analyst. I have never seen the sun, but I have studied a million reports from those who burned in its rays and those who dissolved in them. This map is not truth. Truth cannot be written. This is the most precise and ruthless model of your "self"...
Katya deleted Instagram on Tuesday, at 11:47 PM. Before that, she wrote a post. Wrote it for a long time — first draft, second draft, third. She needed to find the right words. Honest, but not pathetic. Bold, but not arrogant. Vulnerable, but not weak. It came out like this: "I'm leaving. I don't know for how long — maybe forever. These past...