Overflowing beds of sweet peas, marigolds, and cornflowers. Cans of peaches, jams, and chutneys. Fresh…
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6 books to read during burnout when you feel exhausted
It feels like we’re in an era of burnout. In the last decade, the world…
11 books about life to rekindle your love for the world
There are some books that simply stay with you. They leave you feeling inspired, joyful,…
13 soothing books to retreat into and relax with
I’ve been thinking back to some of my favourite quotes from Marcus Aurelius lately. In…
8 habits to adopt from Sattva: The Ayurvedic Way to Live Well
Has your life been a bit out of balance lately? If your mind and body…
Escaping hectic city life for Burma with Jan-Philipp Sendker
I have a real fondness for reading about Buddhism, beautiful temples, and real and imagined…
On retreating into galleries, museums and the beauty of art (with help from Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch)
Museums and galleries remain among the few oases that can deliver what has become increasingly…
Levin on The Joy of Retreating into Nature (Reasons to Read Anna Karenina, Part II)
I wrote last month about “literary retreats”, or novels about retreating into relaxing and recuperative…
Retreating into a Book for Bibliotherapy: 8 of the Best Retreats in Fiction
I’m convinced that when we read about characters retreating into settings that allow them to…
Silence in Literature, Catharsis, and Internal Retreats
Are you a quiet person? Do you read a lot as a way to retreat…
Logotherapy & Stoicism in Viktor E. Frankl’s Man’s Search For Meaning
Raby Castle, the Seat of the Earl of Darlington (1817) – J.M.W. Turner Image from Wikipedia…
The Therapeutic Value of The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
I love Aurelius’s Stoic philosophy. Meditations is pretty much the first self-help book ever written, and…