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Let This Darkness Be a Bell Tower: Rilke’s Timeless Spell for Living Through Difficult Times

Let This Darkness Be a Bell Tower: Rilke’s Timeless Spell for Living Through Difficult Times

“What is it like, such intensity of pain?”

Maya Angelou on Writing and Our Responsibility to Our Creative Gifts

Maya Angelou on Writing and Our Responsibility to Our Creative Gifts

“I believe talent is like electricity. We don’t understand electricity. We use it.”

The Most Important Thing to Remember About Your Mother

The Most Important Thing to Remember About Your Mother

“It is not easy to give closeness and freedom, safety plus danger.”

The Neurophysiology of Enchantment: How Music Casts Its Spell on Us

The Neurophysiology of Enchantment: How Music Casts Its Spell on Us

“Music so readily transports us from the present to the past, or from what is actual to what is possible.”

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