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I wonder why love is so often equated with joy when it is everything else as well. Devastation, balm, obsession, granting and receiving excessive value, and losing it again. It is recognition, often of what you are not but might be. - Florida Scott-Maxwell

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The Catholic Church did this in large part because it benefited the institution in the midst of the Reformation, but it is still pretty cool! Source: The Rationalization of Miracles by Paolo Parigi

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If you love Bach's St Matthew Passion as I do, this is a wonderful read. https://t.co/ZTl8gqYZ8H

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Leisure does not exist for the sake of work. - Josef Pieper

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"In the Psalms, the pain is brought to speech. When the pain is brought to speech, it turns into energy. If pain isn’t brought to speech, it turns into despair. That means that the people who make a difference are the people who bring the pain to speech." - Walter Brueggemann

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We welcomed @simran and his friend @prabhjotsinghNY in a great conversation about this book and more at @TheNearnessCoop earlier this week. Such a joy!! Highly recommend The Light We Give : ) https://t.co/btKGLakAUv

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Congrats to @robertwaldinger on the publication of his new book The Good Life! Bob's leadership of the longest study of human relationships has been deeply informative to my work and I can't wait to read this : ) https://t.co/zv0pcYSlZH

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Just started reading Hilary Mantel's memoir Giving Up The Ghost and want to live in her words forever. My god, what a writer.

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Huge congrats to @SimoneStolzoff on his publication day! Check out his book: The Good Enough Job - a great antidote to our culture of overwork. https://t.co/Pevyq9rXZH

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When we awaken to the call of Beauty, we become aware of new ways of being in the world. - John O'Donohue