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  • The Asking Loved

    For half a century, Jane Hirshfield has been slaking the world's soul on poems of perspective and consolation, fusing her Buddhist training, her passion for science, and her tenderness for all things living.

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  • Archives of Joy: Reflections on Animals and the Nature of Being Loved

    The secret pulse-beat of joy is what Jean-François Beauchemin explores in Archives of Joy: Reflections on Animals and the Nature of Being

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  • Leaning toward Light: Poems for Gardens Loved

    The garden as a place of reverence and responsibility, a practice of ample creative and spiritual rewards, comes alive in Leaning toward Light: Poems for Gardens

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  • How to Say Goodbye Loved

    How to move through it is what my talented friend and sometime-collaborator Wendy MacNaughton explores in How to Say Goodbye

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  • What Looks Like Bravery Loved

    She tells the story of those difficult, transformative learnings in What Looks Like Bravery

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  • Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier Loved

    That is precisely what Kevin Kelly gathers in Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier

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  • The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality Loved

    These are the immense and intimate questions William Egginton takes up in The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality

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  • The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality Loved

    That is what cognitive philosopher Andy Clark explores in The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality

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  • The Transcendent Brain: Spirituality in the Age of Science Loved

    the poetic physicist Alan Lightman sets out to illuminate how these atomic constellations can be capable of such exultant spiritual experiences

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  • Notes on Complexity: A Scientific Theory of Connection, Consciousness, and Being Loved

    the Buddhist scientist Neil Theise endeavors to bridge the mystery out there with the mystery of us

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  • The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise Loved

    With soulful curiosity channeled in his ever-lyrical prose, Pico Iyer chronicles a lifetime of pilgrimages to some of Earth's greatest shrines to that longing in The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise

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  • The Art of Choosing Love Over Not-Love: Rumi’s Antidote to Our Human Tragedy 4 Sept
  • The Power of Being a Threshold Person: Liminality, Communitas, and the Anti-structures of Possibility 4 Sept
  • Everything Is Already There: Javier Marías on the Courage to Heed Your Intuitions 4 Sept
  • Wendell Berry on Solitude and the Two Great Enemies of Creative Work 3 Sept
  • The Creative Power of Uncertainty: Polish Poet Wisława Szymborska’s Magnificent Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech 3 Sept
  • Italo Calvino on Reading and Sex 3 Sept

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  • The Paradox of Knowing Who You Are and What You Want: Cristina Campo on Fairy Tales, Time, and the Meaning of Maturity 2 Sept
  • Wendell Berry on Hope, Despair, and the Measure of Effective Protest 2 Sept
  • How to Have Enough: Wendell Berry on Creativity and Love 2 Sept
  • The Invention of Zero: How Ancient Mesopotamia Created the Mathematical Concept of Nought and Ancient India Gave It Symbolic Form 2 Sept
  • The Thing Itself: C.S. Lewis on What We Long for in Our Existential Longing 2 Sept
  • A Lei for Your Losses: Joan Didion on the Art of Letting Go 1 Sept
  • The 3 Buddhist Steps to Repairing a Relationship 1 Sept
  • How Do We Know What We Want: Milan Kundera on the Central Ambivalences of Life and Love 1 Sept
  • A Parliament of Owls and a Murder of Crows: How a Forgotten Medieval Woman Gave Groups of Birds Their Strange Names, with Wondrous Vintage Illustrations by Brian Wildsmith 31 Aug
  • The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise 19 Dec 2023 Lovedaffiliate link
  • Notes on Complexity: A Scientific Theory of Connection, Consciousness, and Being 19 Dec 2023 Lovedaffiliate link
  • The Transcendent Brain: Spirituality in the Age of Science 19 Dec 2023 Lovedaffiliate link
  • The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality 19 Dec 2023 Lovedaffiliate link
  • The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality 19 Dec 2023 Lovedaffiliate link
  • Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier 19 Dec 2023 Lovedaffiliate link
  • What Looks Like Bravery 19 Dec 2023 Lovedaffiliate link
  • How to Say Goodbye 19 Dec 2023 Lovedaffiliate link
  • Leaning toward Light: Poems for Gardens 19 Dec 2023 Lovedaffiliate link
  • Archives of Joy: Reflections on Animals and the Nature of Being 19 Dec 2023 Lovedaffiliate link
  • The Asking 19 Dec 2023 Lovedaffiliate link