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The more the … century advances and the more crassly complicated our lives become and the more the hectoring injunctions of the commercial world intrude—EAT! BUY! PLAY! SPEND! ENJOY!—and come to dominate our every waking moment, so do the calm and emptiness, the clean, unimpeded, untrammeled nature of the world German architect Oscar Kranewitter (1891–1929)…
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Aldous Huxley died on November 22, 1963, just hours after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, and on the same day that fellow writer C. S. Lewis passed away.
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Song by Allen Ginsberg
The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction the weight, the weight we carry is love. Who can deny? In dreams it touches the body, in thought constructs a miracle, in imagination anguishes till born in human– looks out of the heart burning with purity– for the burden of life is love, but we carry the weight wearily, and so must rest in the arms of love at last, must rest in…
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Richard Rohr describes the transformative power of an incarnational worldview: I have concluded that there are four basic worldviews, though they might be expressed in many ways and are not necessarily separate. Those who hold a material worldview believe that the outer, visible universe is the ultimate and “real” world. People of this worldview have given us…
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Song of the Open Road
BY WALT WHITMAN 1 Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road, Healthy, free, the world before me, The long brown path before me leading wherever I choose. Henceforth I ask not good-fortune, I myself am good-fortune, Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing, Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms, Strong…
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