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Oct 14 2016

Ray Brooks: The Shadow That Seeks the Sun

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Edwin Lord Weeks, The Last Voyage.
Photograph: [Public Domain] Wikimedia Commons

A story of yogis, bhogis and an unexpected encounter

Written by Ray Brooks · Categorized: Literature, Wisdom · Tagged: advaita vedanta, autobiography, edwin lord weeks, english, guest post, india, nonfiction, prose, ray brooks, spirituality, the shadow that seeks the sun, travel

Oct 07 2016

Michel de Montaigne: On Solitude

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Alphonse Mucha, Woman in the Wilderness.
Image: Public Domain

How seclusion from the active life is the only peaceful way to live

Written by Paula Marvelly · Categorized: Literature, Wisdom · Tagged: alphonse mucha, essay, french, michel de montaigne, nonfiction, of solitude, philosophy, prose, silence

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

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

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

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

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