Marcus Aurelius helped me survive grief and rebuild my life

Forget the ideal of work/life balance – your needs and interests are much richer than that, and your life can be too

Whether grieving a death or connecting to colleagues, creativity enables an artful life, according to Chinese philosophy

«But imagine instead that we worked with idea that creativity wasn’t about novelty. That doesn’t mean we’d have to give up the value of originality entirely, but rather see it as one of a range of possible outcomes. Casting a wider net in this way might hence make creativity (whatever it involves) easier to achieve.»

These odd values were long dismissed as bookkeeping. Now physicists are proving that they describe the hidden shape of nature

In all its baroque and sometimes cruelly overbred forms, the dog is a paramount symbol of both human hopes and foibles

«As a rising middle class started to focus on their own family trees, creating an ‘elite’ from new money, so dogs started to be classified too.»

Friendship is as essential to good health as eating right and getting enough sleep, experts say.

I am an unequivocal rationalist and yet I still want to see something strange and wonderful in life’s weird coincidences

I’ve spent more than three years interviewing friends for “The Friendship Files.” Here’s what I’ve learned.

«I’ve come to believe that friendship doesn’t always have to be about presence; it can also be about love that can weather absence.»

Fortunate is the person who has reached the age of 50 without having had to grieve. To be among the grieving, the bereaved, is an experience most of us go through, excepting only those who die…

«Grief presents us with a rare opportunity to relate to ourselves more fully, rationally, and lovingly.»