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How to Live in Light: A Blind Hero of the French Resistance on Seeing the Heart of Life and Contacting the Oneness of Being
How to Live in Light: A Blind Hero of the French Resistance on Seeing the Heart of Life and Contacting the Oneness of Being

“There is only one world. Things outside only exist if you go to meet them with everything you carry in yourself. As to the things inside, you will never see them well unless you allow those outside to enter in.”

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The Moon and the Yew Tree: Patti Smith Reads Sylvia Plath’s Haunting Portrait of Depression
The Moon and the Yew Tree: Patti Smith Reads Sylvia Plath’s Haunting Portrait of Depression

“This is the light of the mind, cold and planetary.”

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D.H. Lawrence on the Hypocrisies of Social Change and What It Actually Takes to Shift the Status Quo
D.H. Lawrence on the Hypocrisies of Social Change and What It Actually Takes to Shift the Status Quo

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The Poetic Science of the Ghost Pipe: Emily Dickinson and the Secret of Earth’s Most Supernatural Flower
The Poetic Science of the Ghost Pipe: Emily Dickinson and the Secret of Earth’s Most Supernatural Flower

“That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.”

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Spell Against Indifference: A Poem
Spell Against Indifference: A Poem

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Kate Sessions and the Devotion to Delight: The Forgotten Woman Who Covered California with Trees and Flowers
Kate Sessions and the Devotion to Delight: The Forgotten Woman Who Covered California with Trees and Flowers

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Leaning Toward Light: A Posy of Poems Celebrating the Joys and Consolations of the Garden
Leaning Toward Light: A Posy of Poems Celebrating the Joys and Consolations of the Garden

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Notes on Complexity: A Buddhist Scientist on the Murmuration of Being
Notes on Complexity: A Buddhist Scientist on the Murmuration of Being

“You are this body, and you are these molecules, and you are these atoms, and you are these quantum entities, and you are the quantum foam, and you are the energetic field of space-time, and, ultimately, you are the fundamental awareness out of which all these emerge.”

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Albert Camus on Writing and the Importance of Stubbornness in Creative Work
Albert Camus on Writing and the Importance of Stubbornness in Creative Work

“There is no greatness without a little stubbornness… Works of art are not born in flashes of inspiration but in a daily fidelity.”

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Into the Blue Beyond: William Beebe’s Dazzling Account of Becoming the First Human Being to See the Deep Ocean
Into the Blue Beyond: William Beebe’s Dazzling Account of Becoming the First Human Being to See the Deep Ocean

“It was stranger than any imagination could have conceived… an indefinable translucent blue quite unlike anything I have ever seen in the upper world.”

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