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The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

by Jonathan Haidt

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The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis

by Karen Swallow Prior

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Border Lines: The Partition of Judaeo-Christianity (Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion)

by Daniel Boyarin

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“Love is the expression of the one who loves, not of the one who is loved. Those who think they can love only the people they prefer do not love at all. Love discovers truths about individuals that others cannot see”
― Soren Kierkegaard

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“Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

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“We cannot change anything unless we accept it.”
― Carl Gustav Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul

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“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

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“The most common form of despair is not being who you are.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

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