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Sentimentality and Being Mortal: Poet Mark Doty on the Passionate Fragility of Our Attachments
Sentimentality and Being Mortal: Poet Mark Doty on the Passionate Fragility of Our Attachments

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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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Of Wonder, the Courage of Uncertainty, and How to Hear Your Soul: The Best of The Marginalian 2023
Of Wonder, the Courage of Uncertainty, and How to Hear Your Soul: The Best of The Marginalian 2023

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The Power of a Thin Skin
The Power of a Thin Skin

“To be thin-skinned is to feel keenly, to perceive things that might go unseen, unnoticed, that others might prefer not to notice.”

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Poetic Ecology and the Biology of Wonder
Poetic Ecology and the Biology of Wonder

“The real disconnect is not between our human nature and all the other beings; it is between our image of our nature and our real nature.”

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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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A Spell Against Stagnation: John O’Donohue on Beginnings
A Spell Against Stagnation: John O’Donohue on Beginnings

“Our very life here depends directly on continuous acts of beginning.”

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Favorite Books of 2023
Favorite Books of 2023

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How to Bless Each Other: Poet and Philosopher John O’Donohue on the Light Within Us and Between Us
How to Bless Each Other: Poet and Philosopher John O’Donohue on the Light Within Us and Between Us

“The structures of our experience are the windows into the divine. When we are true to the call of experience, we are true to God.”

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The Mind in the Machine: John von Neumann, the Inception of AI, and the Limits of Logic
The Mind in the Machine: John von Neumann, the Inception of AI, and the Limits of Logic

“Something very small, so tiny and insignificant as to be almost invisible in its origin, can nonetheless open up a new and radiant perspective, because through it a higher order of being is trying to express itself.”

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