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To Be an Earth Ecstatic: Poet Diane Ackerman on the Spirituality of Wonder Without Religion

By Maria Popova — 2020

Branchings of belief from the lovely common root of “holy” and “whole” in the interleaving of all things.

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The Mind-Bending Science of Awe

Awe is kind of mind-bending, and it alters how a person perceives the world in subtle but meaningful ways.

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Sarah Laskow
2015
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Finding Time

The Four Horsemen of my apocalypse are called Efficiency, Convenience, Profitability, and Security, and in their names, crimes against poetry, pleasure, sociability, and the very largeness of the world are daily, hourly, constantly carried out.

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Rebecca Solnit
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Winter: Our Challenge to “Get Out in It”

Each year, on the winter solstice, we share this reflection on the season by Parker Palmer. In 1995 Parker wrote a welcome for the Fetzer Institute’s newly built retreat center, Seasons, which included a reflection on each of the four seasons.

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Parker Palmer
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Connection with Nature