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Sep 02 2016

Matsuo Bashō: Deep Silence

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Isaac Levitan, A Quiet Monastery.
Photograph: [Public Domain] Wikimedia Commons

How can silence be explained in words?

Written by Paula Marvelly · Categorized: Literature · Tagged: haiku, isaac levitan, japanese, matsuo bashō, poetry, silence

Aug 26 2016

Carl Gustav Jung: The Red Book, Liber Novus

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C. G. Jung, The Red Book, Liber Novus.
Image: Philemon Foundation and W. W. Norton & Company

How an existential crisis precipitated an artistic masterpiece

Written by Paula Marvelly · Categorized: Literature, Visual Arts, Wisdom · Tagged: autobiography, carl gustav jung, liber novus, nonfiction, painting, prose, psychology, spirituality, swiss, the red book, video

Aug 12 2016

Alicia Torres: Darshan

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Mother Meera.
Photograph: Mother Meera: Darshan in Silence

A homage to Mother Meera

Written by Alicia Torres · Categorized: Literature, Wisdom · Tagged: alicia torres, guest post, hinduism, indian, mother meera, nonfiction, prose, spirituality, travel, venezuelan, women

Jul 22 2016

Andrei Tarkovsky: Cinematic Genius

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Andrei Tarkovsky.
Photograph: Festival de Cine Africano de Córdoba, [CC BY-SA 2.0] Wikimedia Commons

How Russian filmmaker turned movie making into transcendental art

Written by Paula Marvelly · Categorized: Film, Literature · Tagged: andrei tarkovsky, movie, nonfiction, prose, russian, sculpting in time, stalker

Jul 15 2016

Marcus Aurelius: Meditations

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Eugene Delacroix, Last Words of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius.
Image: Public Domain

How a Roman emperor stirred the hearts and minds of his people

Written by Paula Marvelly · Categorized: Literature, Wisdom · Tagged: essay, marcus aurelius, meditations, nonfiction, philosophy, prose, roman, stoicism

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 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

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