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Emerson: The Mind on Fire Robert D. Richardson Jr. “A spark of fire is infinitely deep, but a mass of fire reaching from earth upward into heaven, this is the sign of the robust, united, burning, radiant soul.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, as much as any man who ever lived,...
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Faith in a Seed Henry D. Thoreau, Edited by Bradley P. Dean “Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.” In 1862, after Thoreau’s passing at the age of forty-four, Emerson said of his friend Henry, “The country knows not yet, or in...
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Gravity and Grace Simone Weil “Man’s greatness is always to recreate his life, to recreate what is given to him, to fashion that very thing which he undergoes.” Every once in a while conscience emerges in a person and becomes the defining force in their character,...
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Green Man, Earth Angel The Prophetic Tradition and the Battle for the Soul of the World Tom Cheetham “We must try, in the face of all that is darkest in this night of the world, to learn what the Sufis call ‘the thought of the heart.’” Tom Cheetham’s Green Man, Earth...
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Advice to the Serious Seeker Meditations on the Teachings of Frithjof Schuon James S. Cutsinger “Man has grown up and is called to take charge of the universe, whose very future depends in some way upon the evolution and actualization of the human spirit.”...
