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What Do You Love Me For?
Sometimes, and it often happens in bed, we face an acute test at the hands of a lover to whom we have pledged our affections. We are asked, with little warning, and in a serious tone: ‘What do you love me for?’ Few moments in a relationship can be as philosophical as this – or as dangerous. A good answer has the power to confirm and enhance the union; a bad one could blow it apart. We immediately recognise that we can’t simply say ‘everything’. We’re being asked to make choices – and our love will be deemed sincere to the extent that the choices feel accurate to their recipients. | READ MORE
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The Fear of Death
One of the most useful things about our minds is that they can in some moods allow us to step outside of ourselves – and consider our death from a wholly dispassionate perspective, as if it were someone else who would have to go through the event and, as if it might not in the end be such a big deal at all, just an inevitable return to an atomic mulch from which our life was only ever a brief and unlikely spasm. | READ MORE
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I Am Not My Body
Standing before the bathroom mirror, we are prone to looking at the face in front of us and thinking that our features are in multiple ways extremely unfaithful to how it feels to be us. We know ourselves in the comforting darkness of the inner mind where we don’t place strict boundaries or blunt conclusions on who we might be. How perplexing, therefore, to be obtusely presented with just one particular person. | READ MORE
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On Learning to Live Deeply Rather than Broadly
Our sadness at the idea of death frequently reduces itself to the thought that our lives have not been, as we put it, ‘long enough.’ But we shouldn’t measure a life by the hours it contains; rather by the wisdom, love and intelligence with which these hours have been spent – by which score, many of the people most legendary for having had brief lives really had nothing of the sort. | READ MORE
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From Our Shop: The Couple's Workbook
Love is a skill, not just an emotion – and in order for us to get good at it, we have to practice, as we would in any other area we want to shine in. Here is a workbook containing the very best exercises that any couple can undertake to help their relationship function optimally, exercises to foster understanding, patience, forgiveness, humour and resilience in the face of the many hurdles that invariably arise when you try to live with someone else for the long term. | SHOP NOW
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The School of Life Conference - Barcelona
There's now less than a month to go until our biannual conference in Barcelona. Our conference brings together curious people from across the globe for three days exploring the fundamentals of a fulfilled life. Make new friendships, gain vital emotional skills, and discover a more satisfying and meaningful way of living.| FIND OUT MORE
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