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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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What Makes a Compassionate World: Sophie de Grouchy’s Visionary 18th-Century Appeal to Parents and Teachers
What Makes a Compassionate World: Sophie de Grouchy’s Visionary 18th-Century Appeal to Parents and Teachers

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The Two Souls Within: Hermann Hesse on the Dual Life of the Creative Spirit
The Two Souls Within: Hermann Hesse on the Dual Life of the Creative Spirit

“Like a precious, fleeting foam over the sea of suffering arise all those works of art, in which a single individual lifts himself for an hour so high above his personal destiny that his happiness shines like a star and appears to all who see it as something eternal and as a happiness of their own.”

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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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We Are the Music, We Are the Spark: Pioneering Biologist Ernest Everett Just on What Makes Life Alive
We Are the Music, We Are the Spark: Pioneering Biologist Ernest Everett Just on What Makes Life Alive

“Life is exquisitely a time-thing, like music.”

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