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Jun 04 2017

Paula Marvelly: Sacra di San Michele

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Elio Pallard, Sacra di San Michele.
Photograph: © Elio Pallard, Sacra di San Michele

Touching the void

Written by Paula Marvelly · Categorized: Visual Arts · Tagged: architecture, christian mysticism, elio pallard, italian, piemonte, sacra di san michele, the name of the rose, umberto eco, women

May 28 2017

Jean Cocteau: Chapelle Saint-Pierre de Villefranche-sur-Mer

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Jean Cocteau, Chapelle Saint-Pierre.
Photograph: © Prud’homie des pêcheurs de Villefranche-sur-Mer, Vallée du Var

Prince of Poets

Written by Paula Marvelly · Categorized: Visual Arts · Tagged: architecture, chapelle saint pierre, christian mysticism, french, jean cocteau, painting, villefranche-sur-mer

May 21 2017

John Tavener: Towards Silence

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George Newson, John Tavener With Cat.
Photograph: © George Newson/Lebrecht Music & Arts

The soundlessness of sound

Written by Paula Marvelly · Categorized: Performing Arts · Tagged: advaita vedanta, british, christian mysticism, george newson, john tavener, music, rene guenon, towards silence

Feb 19 2017

Rollo May: My Quest for Beauty

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Rollo May, After Glow of a Sunset.
Photograph: © Rollo May

A personal story of redemption

Written by Paula Marvelly · Categorized: Literature, Visual Arts, Wisdom · Tagged: american, autobiography, christian mysticism, drawing, my quest for beauty, nonfiction, painting, prose, psychology, rollo may, travel, video

Feb 12 2017

Shūsaku Endō: Silence

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El Greco, The Veil of Saint Veronica.
Photograph: [Public Domain] Wikimedia Commons

Be still and know that I am God

Written by Paula Marvelly · Categorized: Film, Literature · Tagged: christian mysticism, el greco, japanese, martin scorsese, movie, prose, shusaku endo, silence, the veil of saint veronica, video

Jan 29 2017

Spiros Stathoulopoulos: Meteora

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Spiros Stathoulopoulos, Meteora.
Photograph: © 2017, Kairos Film

The enduring power of eternal love

Written by Paula Marvelly · Categorized: Film, Wisdom · Tagged: christian mysticism, greek, meteora, movie, spirituality, spiros stathoulopoulos, video

Oct 28 2016

Julian of Norwich: Revelations of Divine Love

Rogier van der Weyden, Portrait of a Woman With a Winged Bonnet - The Culturium
Rogier van der Weyden, Portrait of a Woman With a Winged Bonnet.
Photograph: [Public Domain] Wikimedia Commons

How love is the only meaning to life

Written by Paula Marvelly · Categorized: Literature, Wisdom · Tagged: autobiography, christian mysticism, english, julian of norwich, nonfiction, prose, revelations of divine love, spirituality, women

Sep 16 2016

Leo Tolstoy: The Three Hermits

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Mikhail Nesterov, Hermit Fathers and Immaculate Women.
Photograph: [Public Domain] WikiArt

How individual belief triumphs over religious dogma

Written by Paula Marvelly · Categorized: Literature, Wisdom · Tagged: christian mysticism, fiction, leo tolstoy, mikhail nesterov, prose, russian, short story, spirituality, the three hermits

Sep 09 2016

Teresa of Ávila: The Ecstasy of Love

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Fray Juan de la Miseria, Teresa de Jesús.
Photograph: [Public Domain] Wikimedia Commons

How the interior life is the only path to rhapsodic bliss

Written by Paula Marvelly · Categorized: Literature, Visual Arts, Wisdom · Tagged: autobiography, christian mysticism, gian lorenzo bernini, nonfiction, prose, sculpture, spanish, spirituality, teresa of avila, the interior castle, video, women

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