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Archives of Joy: Reflections on Animals and the Nature of Being
An invitation to “a certain, forgotten way of seeing the world” and an exultation at “earthly life, with its duration so short it obliges us to surpass ourselves.”
A Victorian Visionary’s Prescient Case for Animal Rights and Vegetarianism
“Once upon a time your fore-fathers made no scruple about not only killing, but also eating their relations.”
A Taste of How It Feels to Be Free: Pioneering Psychoanalyst Karen Horney on Our Inner Conflicts, the Psychology of Hopelessness, and the Path to Wholeness
“The most comprehensive formulation of therapeutic goals is the striving for wholeheartedness: to be without pretense, to be emotionally sincere, to be able to put the whole of oneself into one’s feelings, one’s work, one’s beliefs. It can be approximated only to the extent that conflicts are resolved.”
The Challenge of Closeness: Alain de Botton on Love, Vulnerability, and the Paradox of Avoidance
The psychological machinery of our commonest coping mechanism for the terror of hurt, rejection, and abandonment.
The Heart of Matter: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin on Bridging the Scientific and the Sacred
“Blessed be you, mighty matter, irresistible march of evolution, reality ever new-born; you who, by constantly shattering our mental categories, force us to go ever further and further in our pursuit of the truth.”
Between Matter and Spirit: Psychoanalyst Allen Wheelis on the Substance of What We Are
“We are carriers of spirit… into a future unknown, unknowable, and in continual creation.”
The Universe and the Soul: Richard Jefferies on Nature as Prayer for Presence
How to grow “absorbed into the being or existence of the universe.”
Wholeness and the Implicate Order: Physicist David Bohm on Bridging Consciousness and Reality
How to “include everything coherently and harmoniously in an overall whole that is undivided, unbroken, and without a border.”
The Last Wonder: D.H. Lawrence on Death and the Best Lifelong Preparation for It
“Know thyself, and that thou art mortal. But know thyself, denying that thou art mortal.”
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