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Four Quartets

T. S. Eliot

'That crown which he set on his lifetime's effort.' Ted Hughes

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10% Happier with Dan Harris

This poetry collection was mentioned as a monumental work by a Christian author that deeply describes the awkward intermediate stage of dissolution during contemplative practice, though the judges who awarded the Nobel Prize may not have fully understood its subject matter.

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we call it technically bunga b-h-a-n-g-a which means dissolution and it's known in other traditions for example d s-eleot got the Nobel Prize in literature in 1944 for writing a poem called the four q...

— Episode: Shinzen Young, Meditation Teacher

Episode: Shinzen Young, Meditation Teacher

This poetry collection was mentioned as a monumental work by a Christian author that deeply describes the awkward intermediate stage of dissolution during contemplative practice, though the judges who awarded the Nobel Prize may not have fully understood its subject matter.

"

we call it technically bunga b-h-a-n-g-a which means dissolution and it's known in other traditions for example d s-eleot got the Nobel Prize in literature in 1944 for writing a poem called the four quartets which is amazing to me considering that i sincerely doubt that any of the judges that gave him that prize understood what that poem was actually about

the wounded surgeon applies the steel that questions the distempered part beneath the bleeding hands we feel the sharp compassion of the healer's art resolving the enigma of the fever chart

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