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all these things—fullness, decline, destruction, renewal, tearing down, rebuilding—are actually part of the same process, points on a single continuum, consecutive segments of a never-ending circle.
Alan Lew • Be Still and Get Going: A Jewish Meditation Practice for Real Life

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Joey DeBruin • 2 cards
The baths were certainly still in use in the late fourth century; but it is during the fifth and sixth centuries and into the seventh that Wroxeter punches above its weight in the sheer scale and dynamics of its post-Roman life. Barker’s meticulous recording showed that early in the fifth century the huge baths basilica – an aisled hall some 200 ft
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Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel

The recent revival of yangsheng practices in everyday life, where classical ideas intersect with contemporary needs and new ideals, to achieve a better integration of individual life with family, community and nature, reveals that dialogical transcendence is alive and well in China and being tapped in similar ways.7
Prasenjit Duara • The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Asian Connections)
At this point in the tale, we see a fragment of the old night religions. The young woman bathes, dresses in white, draws a chalk circle around herself. It is an old Goddess ritual to bathe—purify—to don the white gown—the garb of descent to the land of the dead—and to draw a circle of magic protection—sacred thought—around oneself. All these the ma
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