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Dostoyevsky on Animal Rights and the Deepest Meaning of Human Love
Dostoyevsky on Animal Rights and the Deepest Meaning of Human Love

“Treasure this ecstasy, however absurd people may think it.”

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If You Fail at Love
If You Fail at Love

Consolation for our learned brokenness on the path to healing.

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The Creative Accident: Visionary Ceramicist Edith Heath on Serendipity, the Antidote to Obsolescence, and the Five Pillars of Timelessness
The Creative Accident: Visionary Ceramicist Edith Heath on Serendipity, the Antidote to Obsolescence, and the Five Pillars of Timelessness

On aligning the things we make with basic human values for an enduring world.

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What the Heart Keeps When the Mind Goes: May Sarton on Loving a Loved One Through Dementia
What the Heart Keeps When the Mind Goes: May Sarton on Loving a Loved One Through Dementia

On remaining in loving contact with the intangible, immutable part of the self.

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How to Be Less Harsh with Yourself (and Others): Ram Dass on the Spiritual Lessons of Trees
How to Be Less Harsh with Yourself (and Others): Ram Dass on the Spiritual Lessons of Trees

A simple perspective shift that reorients the roots of being.

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The Balancing Monsters of Love: Leonard Cohen on What Makes a Saint
The Balancing Monsters of Love: Leonard Cohen on What Makes a Saint

On loving the world enough to surrender to the laws of gravity and chance.

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Meditation in Sunlight: May Sarton’s Stunning Poem About the Relationship Between Presence, Solitude, and Love
Meditation in Sunlight: May Sarton’s Stunning Poem About the Relationship Between Presence, Solitude, and Love

“…and joy instead of will.”

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The Stoic Key to Fulfilling Your Destiny: Seneca on Nature and Human Nature
The Stoic Key to Fulfilling Your Destiny: Seneca on Nature and Human Nature

“The mind enjoys the complete and perfect benefit of its human destiny only when… entering the secret heart of nature.”

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How to Bear Each Other’s Suffering: Elie Wiesel on the Antidote to Our Paralysis in the Face of World-Overwhelm
How to Bear Each Other’s Suffering: Elie Wiesel on the Antidote to Our Paralysis in the Face of World-Overwhelm

“I believe if people talk, and they talk sincerely, with the same respect that one owes to a close friend or to God, something will come out of that, something good. I would call it presence.”

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The Most Important Thing to Remember About Your Mother
The Most Important Thing to Remember About Your Mother

“It is not easy to give closeness and freedom, safety plus danger.”

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