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Read more: Where is the madness?Tara Westover wrote the words “everywhere—consciously, compulsively” as she tried to come to terms with her family. “When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where…
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Read more: Self-creationTara Westover grew up in a survivalist family in Idaho. Even though she had never seen a doctor and had never sat in a classroom…
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Read more: Proper work“To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work,” the poet Mary Oliver once wrote.
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Read more: Something particular and realMary Oliver, who died last month, wrote “often of mortality, but with a spirit of gratitude and completion,” her obituary stressed. The poet once wrote:…
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Read more: Good-bye, Mary OliverSome of my favorite quotes come from Mary Oliver, who died earlier this month. And, my favorite quotes must be the favorites of many others…
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Read more: Legions of half-truths“Our minds are constantly being invaded by legions of half-truths, prejudices and false facts,” Martin Luther King Jr. said. “One of the great needs of…
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Read more: True peacePeace “as the world commonly understands it comes when the summer sky is clean and the sun shines in scintillating beauty, when the pocketbook is…
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Read more: Radiant hopeWe must avoid both “superficial optimism” and “crippling pessimism,” Martin Luther King Jr. emphasized. Instead, we need “a radiant hope,” he wrote in his book…
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Read more: An inescapable network of mutuality“In a real sense, all life is interrelated. All men (and women) are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment…
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Read more: Create meaningAfter tragedy, you don’t find meaning, Elaine Pagels, a professor at Princeton, told an audience at Arts & Letters Live in Dallas recently. “You create…