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Nov 02 2025

Rainer Maria Rilke: The Testament

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Rainer Maria Rilke

Ode to silence

Written by Paula Marvelly · Categorized: Literature · Tagged: austrian, draft of a political speech, from the literary estate of count c. w., letter to a young worker, nonfiction, poetry, primal sound, prose, rainer maria rilke, the testament

Aug 25 2025

Rainer Maria Rilke: Letters to a Young Painter

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Unknown, Rainer Maria Rilke

Possession’s paradox

Written by Paula Marvelly · Categorized: Literature, Visual Arts · Tagged: austrian, balthus, letters, letters to a young painter, mitsou, nonfiction, prose, rainer maria rilke

Aug 10 2025

Marcus Aurelius: Meditations

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© Paula Marvelly, Charleston

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

Aug 03 2025

Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Meditations of a Solitary Walker

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Caspar David Friedrich, Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog

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

Mar 03 2024

Stephen Nachmanovitch: Free Play

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Ludwig van Beethoven, Eroica Manuscript.
Image: Public Domain

Improvisation in life and art

Written by Paula Marvelly · Categorized: Literature, Performing Arts · Tagged: american, beethoven, free play, j s bach, music, music from before the beginning, nonfiction, prose, remedios varo, stephen nachmanovitch, viola, violin

Nov 27 2022

Michael Molinos: The Spiritual Guide

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Attributed to Pedro Duque Cornejo,
Angel Seated on Clouds.
Photograph: Public Domain

What will be the book’s relationship to you?

Written by Paula Marvelly · Categorized: Literature, Wisdom · Tagged: christian mysticism, michael molinos, nonfiction, pedro duque cornejo, prose, spanish, spirituality, the spiritual guide

Nov 01 2020

Alan Watts: The Two Hands of God

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Hilma af Klint, The Swan No. 17.
Image: Public Domain

The myths of polarity

Written by Paula Marvelly · Categorized: Literature, Wisdom · Tagged: alan watts, british, hilma af klint, nonfiction, prose, spirituality, the two hands of god

Jul 12 2020

Plotinus: Enneads

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Cesare Maccari, Study of Figure.
Image: Public Domain

Perfection realized

Written by Paula Marvelly · Categorized: Wisdom · Tagged: cesare maccari, enneads, nonfiction, philosophy, plotinus, prose, roman

May 24 2020

Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Over-Soul

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Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, Creation of the World, II.
Photograph: Public Domain

Divine unity

Written by Paula Marvelly · Categorized: Literature, Wisdom · Tagged: american, essay, nonfiction, over-soul, prose, ralph waldo emerson, spirituality, transcendentalism

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