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The Lost Knowledge of Christ: Contemporary Spiritualities, Christian Cosmology, and the Arts

by Dominic White OP

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Is a River Alive?

by Robert Macfarlane (Goodreads Author)

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Powsels and Thrums: A Tapestry of a Creative Life

by Alan Garner

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Blood Feud by Rosemary Sutcliff

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Home is not Place but People. Kinship, the ties that we make as we go along.

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“Also in this He shewed me a little thing, the quantity of an hazel-nut, in the palm of my hand; and it was as round as a ball. I looked thereupon with eye of my understanding, and thought: What may this be?”
― Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love

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“Are we all living like this? Two lives, the ideal outer life and the inner imaginative life where we keep our secrets?”
― Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry

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“There is no law that gods must be fair, Achilles,” Chiron said. “And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone. Do you think?”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

tags: historical-fiction

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“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton

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“I struggle impotently to express who I really am. Often I would confess these sins as I kneel and gabble my “Bless-me-Father-for-I-have-sinned …” but it is suffering too deep for speech, and true guilt almost too deep for conscious knowledge.”
― Maggie Ross, The Fire of Your Life

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