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		<title>Beethoven and the Purity of Will</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[“What a humiliation when one stood beside me and heard a flute in the distance and I heard nothing, or someone heard the shepherd singing and again I heard nothing! Such incidents brought me to the verge of despair. Little more, and I would have put an end to my life—it was only my art [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Healing Through Poetry Fundraiser</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Our Mission Poetry Heals improves our community&#8217;s mental health by providing expressive writing workshops and tools. The concepts emphasized are: We will use raised funds for operating support, mentor salaries, and additional programming. Just click on the link below to learn more about Poetry Heals and how to contribute. Fundraiser by Poetry Heals: Healing Through [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Even great loves</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Believe me, there are no great sufferings, no great regrets, no great memories. Everything is forgotten, even great loves. Albert Camus]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Enigmas</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[You have asked me what the lobster weaves between its golden claws, and I respond to you: The sea knows. You say to me,&#160;“What is the ascidia waiting for in its transparent bell? What is it waiting for?&#8221; I say to you, it waits as you do for time. You ask me whom the embrace [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Joseph Campbell on Schopenhauer, Will, and Life&#8217;s Composition</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[In his splendid essay called &#8220;On an Apparent Intention in the Fate of the Individual,&#8221; Schopenhauer points out that when you reach an advanced age and look back over your lifetime, it can seem to have had a consistent order and plan, as though composed by some novelist. Events that when they occurred had seemed [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Oct 2024 01:37:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider her ways and be wise: Which, having no chief, overseer, or ruler, Provideth her meat in the summer, [and] gathereth her food in the harvest. &#8211;Proverbs 6:6-6:8 Scripture praises ants, children are mesmerized by them, and yet ants in the garden are so commonplace as to be easily [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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