I have a real fondness for reading about Buddhism, beautiful temples, and real and imagined …
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On retreating into galleries, museums and the beauty of art (with help from Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch)
Museums and galleries remain among the few oases that can deliver what has become increasingly rare …
Levin on The Joy of Retreating into Nature (Reasons to Read Anna Karenina, Part II)
I wrote last month about "literary retreats", or novels about retreating into relaxing and …
Retreating into a Book for Bibliotherapy: 8 of the Best Retreats in Fiction
I'm convinced that when we read about characters retreating into settings that allow them to …
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Silence in Literature, Catharsis, and Internal Retreats
Are you a quiet person? Do you read a lot as a way to retreat from the world? Great image on …
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Logotherapy & Stoicism in Viktor E. Frankl’s Man’s Search For Meaning
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The Therapeutic Value of The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
I love Aurelius's Stoic philosophy. Meditations is pretty much the first self-help book ever …
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