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		<title>The Greenness of the Grass</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#1057;&#1042;&#1045;&#1058;&#1048; &#1043;&#1045;&#1054;&#1056;&#1043;&#1048; &#8220;Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in. Embark, and the romance quits our vessel, and hangs on every other sail in the horizon.&#8221; —Ralph Waldo Emerson, &#8220;Experience&#8221;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.exicarus.com/2012/02/03/the-greenness-of-the-grass/</link>
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		<title>Anselm&#8217;s Freedom</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Creatures sin. To sin is to will what God wills what you should not will. Therefore, on Anselm&#8217;s understanding, free creatures introduce into the universe events which are against the will of God. Does Anselm&#8217;s view then diminish the divine nature? He does not state them explicitly, but there are at least two, mutually reinforcing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.exicarus.com/2012/02/02/anselms-freedom/</link>
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		<title>Safety in Openness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#1041;&#1086;&#1075;&#1086;&#1088;&#1086;&#1076;&#1080;&#1094;&#1072; &#8220;&#8216;If you do that, wouldn&#8217;t you be good?&#8217; &#8216;No,&#8217; said Cal. &#8216;I think bad.&#8217; Will had never met anyone who spoke so nakedly.  He was near to embarrassment because of the nakedness, and he knew how safe Cal was in his stripped honesty. &#8216;Only one more,&#8217; he said, &#8216;and I won&#8217;t mind if you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.exicarus.com/2012/01/20/462/</link>
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		<title>Singular Struggle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The man who imagines he can conquer the demon of fornication by gluttony and by stuffing himself is quite like someone who quenches fire with oil.  And the man who tries to put an end to this struggle by means of chastity only is like someone trying to escape from the sea by swimming with just [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.exicarus.com/2012/01/19/452/</link>
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		<title>Forgive Me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Quod potui, feci, veniam da mihi posteritas.&#8221; —Leonardo da Vinci]]></description>
		<link>http://www.exicarus.com/2012/01/18/forgive-me/</link>
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		<title>A Poem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Musee des Beaux Arts W. H. Auden About suffering they were never wrong, The old Masters: how well they understood Its human position: how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along; How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting For the miraculous birth, there always [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.exicarus.com/2012/01/17/auden-musee-des-beaux-arts/</link>
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		<title>Leaders&#8217; Retreat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Amazing sessions so far from Billy, Matt, and Kate.  The Spirit is here.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.exicarus.com/2012/01/14/leaders-retreat/</link>
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		<title>Mysterious Paper Sculptures</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Absolutely must read this story.  I was floored: Mysterious paper sculptures]]></description>
		<link>http://www.exicarus.com/2012/01/12/mysterious-paper-sculptures-2/</link>
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		<title>Trembling</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Isaiah 66 &#8220;Thus saith the LORD: The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest? For all those things hath my hand made, and all those things have been, saith the LORD: but to this man [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.exicarus.com/2012/01/11/trembling/</link>
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		<title>Climacus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The man who wants to be reminded constantly of death and of God&#8217;s judgment and who at the same time gives in to material cares and distractions, is like someone trying at the same time to swim and to clap his hands.&#8221; —John Climacus, Ladder of Divine Ascent]]></description>
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