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How to Bear Your Loneliness
How to Bear Your Loneliness

“We are cheating ourselves when we run away from the ambiguity of loneliness.”

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How to Hold Death and Carry Life: A Zen Master Explains Existence to a Child and Outlines the Three Essential Principles of Zen Mind
How to Hold Death and Carry Life: A Zen Master Explains Existence to a Child and Outlines the Three Essential Principles of Zen Mind

“Zen practice … requires great faith, great courage, and great questioning.”

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How to Be a Sea: Albert Camus on Learning to Die and Learning to Live
How to Be a Sea: Albert Camus on Learning to Die and Learning to Live

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Georgia O’Keeffe on the Art of Seeing
Georgia O’Keeffe on the Art of Seeing

“To see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.”

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The Art of Looking: Eleven Ways of Viewing the Multiple Realities of Our Everyday Wonderland
The Art of Looking: Eleven Ways of Viewing the Multiple Realities of Our Everyday Wonderland

“Attention is an intentional, unapologetic discriminator. It asks what is relevant right now, and gears us up to notice only that.”

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Wilderness, Solitude, and Creativity: Artist and Philosopher Rockwell Kent’s Century-Old Meditations on Art and Life During Seven Months on a Small Alaskan Island
Wilderness, Solitude, and Creativity: Artist and Philosopher Rockwell Kent’s Century-Old Meditations on Art and Life During Seven Months on a Small Alaskan Island

“These are the times in life — when nothing happens — but in quietness the soul expands.”

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Moonlight and the Magic of the Unnecessary
Moonlight and the Magic of the Unnecessary

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The Bird in the Heart: Terry Tempest Williams on the Paradox of Transformation and How to Live with Uncertainty
The Bird in the Heart: Terry Tempest Williams on the Paradox of Transformation and How to Live with Uncertainty

“We can change, evolve, and transform our own conditioning. We can choose to move like water rather than be molded like clay.”

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Wholeness and the Implicate Order: Physicist David Bohm on Bridging Consciousness and Reality
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.”

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How to Read the Signal of Your Life
How to Read the Signal of Your Life

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