love and marriage

The first thing to do is keep silent—to abolish audiences and learn to be your own judge. To keep a balance between an active concern for the body and an attentive awareness of being alive. To give up all feeling that the world owes you a living and devote yourself to achieving two kinds of freedom: freedom from money and freedom from your own... See more

Recent research has revealed the invention of agriculture is not as simple a story as we once thought. It seems the intentional cultivation of plants was not a single watershed moment that happened once and only once. Instead, human groups appear to have repeatedly begun the practice only to later abandon it, presumably as conditions or culture... See more

It’s not loneliness, not exactly, not the kind that rips or rages or tears but the kind that settles, humid and low, into the bones, so that you do not even notice it until one day you find yourself sitting alone at a patio and someone who looks your age asks, “Excuse me, may I take this chair?” before transplanting the seat of your invisible beau... See more

Disparaging your partner in public or behind their back. “Don't badmouth each other ever — not even to close friends and family,” A.J. says. “It can become like a wedge in your relationship. Once it gets in, it can make the gap wider and wider.”