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An Almanac of Birds: Divinations for Uncertain Days
An Almanac of Birds: Divinations for Uncertain Days

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Is Your Life a Fairy Tale, a Novel, or a Poem?
Is Your Life a Fairy Tale, a Novel, or a Poem?

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200 Years of Solitude: Great Writers, Artists, and Scientists on the Creative and Spiritual Rewards of Fertile Aloneness
200 Years of Solitude: Great Writers, Artists, and Scientists on the Creative and Spiritual Rewards of Fertile Aloneness

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Poetry as Prayer: The Great Russian Poet Marina Tsvetaeva on Reclaiming the Divine
Poetry as Prayer: The Great Russian Poet Marina Tsvetaeva on Reclaiming the Divine

“In our age, to have the courage for direct speech to God (for prayer) we must either not know what poems are, or forget.”

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Let the Last Thing Be Song
Let the Last Thing Be Song

“When I die, I want to be sung across the threshold.”

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Beyond Either/Or: Kierkegaard on the Passion for Possibility and the Key to Resetting Relationships
Beyond Either/Or: Kierkegaard on the Passion for Possibility and the Key to Resetting Relationships

“Were I to wish for anything I would not wish for wealth and power, but for the passion of the possible, that eye which everywhere, ever young, ever burning, sees possibility.”

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Leonard Cohen on the Antidote to Anger and the Meaning of Resistance
Leonard Cohen on the Antidote to Anger and the Meaning of Resistance

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An Illustrated Field Guide to the Science and Wonder of the Clouds
An Illustrated Field Guide to the Science and Wonder of the Clouds

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The Humanistic Philosopher and Psychologist Erich Fromm on Love and the Meaning of Respect
The Humanistic Philosopher and Psychologist Erich Fromm on Love and the Meaning of Respect

“Care and responsibility are constituent elements of love, but without respect for and knowledge of the beloved person, love deteriorates into domination and possessiveness.”

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What Birds Dream About: The Evolution of REM and How We Practice the Possible in Our Sleep
What Birds Dream About: The Evolution of REM and How We Practice the Possible in Our Sleep

“It may be that in REM, this gloaming between waking consciousness and the unconscious, we practice the possible into the real… It may be that we evolved to dream ourselves into reality — a laboratory of consciousness that began in the bird brain.”

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