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The Great Blind Spot of Science and the Art of Asking the Complex Question the Only Answer to Which Is Life
The Great Blind Spot of Science and the Art of Asking the Complex Question the Only Answer to Which Is Life

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18 Life-Learnings from 18 Years of The Marginalian
18 Life-Learnings from 18 Years of The Marginalian

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Everything Is Happening All the Time: Legendary Physicist John Archibald Wheeler on Death and the Life-Force
Everything Is Happening All the Time: Legendary Physicist John Archibald Wheeler on Death and the Life-Force

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Erik Erikson’s Stages of Psychological Development: The 8 Inner Conflicts That Shape Who We Are
Erik Erikson’s Stages of Psychological Development: The 8 Inner Conflicts That Shape Who We Are

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The Shape of Wonder: N.J. Berrill on the Universe, the Deepest Meaning of Beauty, and the Highest Form of Faith
The Shape of Wonder: N.J. Berrill on the Universe, the Deepest Meaning of Beauty, and the Highest Form of Faith

“We, each of us, you and I, exhibit more of the true nature of the universe than any dead Saturn or Jupiter.”

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The Strength of the Sensitive: E.M. Forster on the Personal and Political Power of Empaths and the Relationship Between Creativity and Democracy
The Strength of the Sensitive: E.M. Forster on the Personal and Political Power of Empaths and the Relationship Between Creativity and Democracy

“I believe in… an aristocracy of the sensitive, the considerate and the plucky. Its members are to be found in all nations and classes, and all through the ages, and there is a secret understanding between them when they meet.”

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The Galapagos and the Meaning of Life: A Young Woman’s Bittersweet Experiment in Inner Freedom
The Galapagos and the Meaning of Life: A Young Woman’s Bittersweet Experiment in Inner Freedom

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Don’t Waste Your Wildness
Don’t Waste Your Wildness

“What is wild cannot be bought or sold, borrowed or copied. It is. Unmistakable, unforgettable, unshamable, elemental as earth and ice, water, fire and air, a quintessence, pure spirit, resolving into no constituents. Don’t waste your wildness: it is precious and necessary. In wildness, truth.”

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The Consolations of Chronodiversity: Geologist Turned Psychologist Ruth Allen on the 12 Kinds of Time and How to Be More Fully Alive
The Consolations of Chronodiversity: Geologist Turned Psychologist Ruth Allen on the 12 Kinds of Time and How to Be More Fully Alive

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The Paradox of Joy, with a Nick Cave Song and a Lisel Mueller Poem
The Paradox of Joy, with a Nick Cave Song and a Lisel Mueller Poem

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