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Jul 08 2016

Upahar: Bright Like a Million Suns

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Paula Marvelly, Bright Like a Million Suns.
Photograph: [CC BY-SA 4.0] The Culturium

A musical rendition of the poetry of Saint Kabir

Written by Paula Marvelly · Categorized: Film, Literature, Performing Arts · Tagged: arunachala, bright like a million suns, english, indian, inside the taj mahal, music, paul horn, tiruvannamalai, upahar, video

Jul 01 2016

Leo Tolstoy: The Death of Ivan Ilyich

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Marianne Werefkin, Prayer.
Image: Public Domain

How the fear of dying becomes a gateway to the joy of living

Written by Paula Marvelly · Categorized: Literature · Tagged: christian mysticism, fiction, ivan ilyich, leo tolstoy, marianne werefkin, prose, russian, short story

Jun 24 2016

Xavier Beauvois: Of Gods and Men

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Xavier Beauvois, Of Gods and Men.
Photograph: Sony Pictures Classics

Love conquers all … even death

Written by Paula Marvelly · Categorized: Film, Wisdom · Tagged: christian mysticism, des hommes et des dieux, french, monks, movie, of gods and men, spirituality, xavier beauvois

Jun 17 2016

T. S. Eliot: A Man Out of Time

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Lady Ottoline Morrell, T. S. Eliot.
Photograph: [Public Domain] Wikimedia Commons

The great Modernist poet on the meaning of life

Written by Paula Marvelly · Categorized: Literature · Tagged: american, four quartets, lady ottoline morrell, poetry, t s eliot, the love song of j alfred prufrock, the waste land

Jun 10 2016

Plato: Phaedrus and the Charioteer

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Raphael, The School of Athens, [Plato and Aristotle].
Photograph: Wikimedia Commons

How the ancients’ love of chariot racing became a metaphor for the human condition

Written by Paula Marvelly · Categorized: Literature, Wisdom · Tagged: ancient greek, ben-hur, nonfiction, phaedrus, philosophy, plato, prose, socrates

Jun 03 2016

Ansel Adams: The Search for Beauty

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Ansel Adams, Manzanar birds on wire.
Photograph: [Public Domain] Wikimedia Commons

How the purpose of art reflects an ideal world

Written by Paula Marvelly · Categorized: Visual Arts · Tagged: american, ansel adams, documentary, photography, video

May 27 2016

Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Meditations of a Solitary Walker

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Caspar David Friedrich, Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog.
Image: Public Domain

The joys of the reclusive life

Written by Paula Marvelly · Categorized: Literature · Tagged: autobiography, caspar david friedrich, essay, jean-jacques rousseau, meditations of a solitary walker, nonfiction, philosophy, prose, silence, swiss, travel

May 20 2016

Terrence Malick: The Tree of Life

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Terrence Malick, The Tree of Life.
Image: © Searchlight Pictures

A visionary masterpiece of the beginnings of time

Written by Paula Marvelly · Categorized: Film · Tagged: american, movie, terrence malick, the tree of life, video

May 13 2016

Emily Dickinson: A Woman Before Her Time

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Emily Dickinson.
Photograph: [Public Domain] Wikimedia Commons

Reclusive poet who became the most celebrated poet of our time

Written by Paula Marvelly · Categorized: Literature · Tagged: american, emily dickinson, poetry, transcendentalism, women

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