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Accepting Your Darkest Emotions Is the Key to Psychological Health

No need to play it cool. Neglecting negative emotions won’t bring you peace of mind.


Rumi, the 13th-century Sufi poet, famously compared emotions—“a joy, a depression, a meanness”—to “unexpected visitors.” His advice was to let them in laughing, but that’s not what we do. Instead, we pretend not to notice, or even hide. We want to bury resentment and anger, or trade loneliness in for the more fashionable gratitude.


This article was originally published on July 23, 2017, by Quartz, written by Lila MacLellan
Why We Need to End the War on Drugs

Is the War on Drugs doing more harm than good?

In a bold talk, drug policy reformist Ethan Nadelmann makes an impassioned plea to end the "backward, heartless, disastrous" movement to stamp out the drug trade. He gives two big reasons we should focus on intelligent regulation instead.



TEDGlobal 2014 | October 2014

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