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How to Meet Your Mystery: Thomas Merton on Solitude and the Soul
How to Meet Your Mystery: Thomas Merton on Solitude and the Soul

“It is a vocation to become fully awake, even more than the common somnolence permits one to be, with its arbitrary selection of approved dreams, mixed with a few really valid and fruitful conceptions.”

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Don’t Waste Your Greening Life-Force: Hildegard’s Prophetic Enchanted Ecology
Don’t Waste Your Greening Life-Force: Hildegard’s Prophetic Enchanted Ecology

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How You Relate to Anything Is How You Relate to Everything: Reclaiming the Spirit of the Christmas Tree
How You Relate to Anything Is How You Relate to Everything: Reclaiming the Spirit of the Christmas Tree

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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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Love and the Sacred
Love and the Sacred

“I did not know what love was until I encountered one that kept opening and opening and opening.”

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On Love: Saint Paul and the Egret
On Love: Saint Paul and the Egret

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The Art of the Sacred Pause and Despair as a Catalyst of Regeneration
The Art of the Sacred Pause and Despair as a Catalyst of Regeneration

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Batter My Heart: Love, the Divine Within, and How Not to Break Your Own Heart
Batter My Heart: Love, the Divine Within, and How Not to Break Your Own Heart

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The Birth of the Byline: How a Bronze Age Woman Became the World’s First Named Author and Used the Moon to Unify the World’s First Empire
The Birth of the Byline: How a Bronze Age Woman Became the World’s First Named Author and Used the Moon to Unify the World’s First Empire

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Octavia Butler on Religion and the Spirituality of Symbiosis
Octavia Butler on Religion and the Spirituality of Symbiosis

“On many levels, we wind up being strengthened by what we join, or what joins us, as well as by what we combat.”

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