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Rachel at the Well
Rachel at the Well Some years ago, Jerry and I had dinner in Washington D.C. with a learned and accomplished professorial couple who’d been married and deeply in love for their whole blessed lifetime. The conversation turned to a topic … Continue reading →
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Mysteries
Mysteries What part of our lives is a real mystery? I’m not talking about our yet-to-be-solved life problems nor about messages made deliberately unclear or ambiguous in order to confuse people. Leo Bronstein, who was a professor at Brandeis and … Continue reading →
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Tagged "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum", Abigail L. Rosenthal's "Confessions of a Young Philosopher", assuming another's debts, authority, bad actor, bad acts drive out good, clearing up obscure situations, closure, completing a quest, Confessions of a Young Philosopher, dispelling illusions, Divine mystery, domineering men, Dostoevsky's Grand Inquisitor, dream messages, empathy, epiphanies, existential angst, feminine paranoia, feminine vocation, filial obligations, first love, flunking lifemanship, group dynamics, group therapy, heartbreak, ideal resolution, illustrative anecdotes, inexhaustible Source, insoluble romantic problem, last words of Caesar, Leo Bronstein, life adventures, life do's and don'ts, life quests, lifemanship, memory traces, miracle, mystery, mystification, overcoming ambivalence, overgeneralizing, psychologically double, self-help situations, shadowy situation, solving life problems, solving mysteries, spiritual irrelevance, technical support, the human scale, transgression breeds transgression, unresolved issues, unresolved romance
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