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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

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

Mar 25 2016

Paula Marvelly: Sanctuaire Notre-Dame de Laghet

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Paula Marvelly, Sanctuaire Notre-Dame de Laghet.
Photograph: [CC BY-SA 4.0] The Culturium

In search of the miraculous

Written by Paula Marvelly · Categorized: Visual Arts, Wisdom · Tagged: architecture, christian mysticism, french, nonfiction, prose, sanctuaire notre-dame de laghet, spirituality, travel, women

Dec 17 2015

Alice Koller: An Unknown Woman

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Gustave Courbet, The Wave (1869).
Photograph: [Public Domain] Wikimedia Commons

How the solitary life by the sea gave one woman a reason to live

Written by Paula Marvelly · Categorized: Literature · Tagged: alice koller, american, an unknown woman, autobiography, gustave courbet, nantucket, nonfiction, prose, travel, women

Nov 26 2015

Irina Tweedie: The Daughter of Fire

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Irina Tweedie.
Photograph: © 2016, The Golden Sufi Center

How the loss of a spouse led to the love of a Sufi Master

Written by Paula Marvelly · Categorized: Literature, Wisdom · Tagged: autobiography, irina tweedie, naqshbandiyya mujaddidiyya, russian, spirituality, sufism, the chasm of fire, the daughter of fire, the golden sufi center, video, women

Nov 12 2015

Hildegard of Bingen: Sibyl of the Rhine

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Hildegard of Bingen, Scivias:
The True Trinity in True Unity
.
Photograph: The Yorck Project,
[Public Domain] Wikimedia Commons

Polymath and mystic whose artistic and intellectual output was unsurpassed

Written by Paula Marvelly · Categorized: Literature, Performing Arts, Visual Arts, Wisdom · Tagged: christian mysticism, german, hildegard of bingen, liber divinorum operum, liber vitae meritorum, music, painting, prose, rupertsberg codex, scivias, spirituality, women

Oct 27 2015

Alexandra David-Néel: My Journey to Lhasa

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Alexandra David Néel.
Photograph: Preus Museum,
[CC BY 2.0] Wikimedia Commons

How a woman’s quest for solitude led her to Tibet’s forbidden city

Written by Paula Marvelly · Categorized: Literature · Tagged: alexandra david-néel, autobiography, buddhism, dalai lama, french, my journey to lhasa, nonfiction, prose, tibet, travel, women

Sep 07 2015

Sappho: The Tenth Muse

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John William Godward, In the Days of Sappho.
Photograph: Public Domain

The six types of Greek love and why Plato revered a female poet from Lesbos

Written by Paula Marvelly · Categorized: Literature · Tagged: ancient greek, aphrodite, lesbos, philosophy, plato, poetry, roman krznaric, sappho, symposium, women

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