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Alexandra Luca has built a life in Romania, taken one apart in Italy, and begun another in Texas. Somewhere between the three, she stopped asking which version of herself belonged where.
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The Art of Living · Nº01
Does Peace Come After Success, or Does It Have to Come First?
For years, I treated peace like a reward waiting beyond the next achievement. It took success, money, therapy, a book I didn't quite understand until I wrote it, and one unexpectedly fast idea to make me wonder if I had the order backwards.
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The Art of Living · The Pursuit of Peace
Philosophy, psychology, spiritual traditions, therapeutic practice, essays and photography.
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In Defence of the Massive Decision
Small steps are excellent advice, until making the step smaller becomes the mechanism that keeps you from taking it.
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Frameworks are not always about answers. Sometimes their most valuable function is calm.
One Beautiful Book · Fiction What Does Water Remember?
Reading Elif Shafak's There Are Rivers in the Sky through memory, inheritance and what survives us.
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What are you still trying to understand?
One question. Several answers. No advice required.
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One voice · Ramona UngureanuPerhaps the oldest form of preparation was never a map at all. Perhaps it was other women.Read the letter →
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