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    Favourite Lessons From A Course in Miracles

    Somehow, life had enrolled me in an abstract version of A Course in Miracles before I had read the book. Here are some core lessons that I resonate with.

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    Finding Place, Shifting Perception: From Landscape as Image to Landscape as Cosmology

    We cannot physically transform the world through landscape design in ten days, but we can change the way we see the world and make place by shifting perception.

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    Finding Truth in the “Void” Through Chinese Landscape Painting

    The Void can be found in the archetypal landscape between heaven and earth, humanity and divinity. It is a clearing for truth in Heidegger’s phenomenology.

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    Heidegger’s Hermeneutic Circle: What is the Meaning of Art?

    In The Origin of the Work of Art, Heidegger uses the hermeneutic circle to show that working and thinking are processes of unconcealing existential truth.

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    The Poetry of Things…According to Martin Heidegger

    In Building, Dwelling, Thinking and The Thing, Heidegger shows how interpretations change our existential relationship with ourselves and the world.

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    To Dwell Poetically…According to Martin Heidegger

    Heidegger addresses what it means to dwell poetically in his essays. The conclusion: we are all capable of being poetic because it is part of being human.

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    Introduction to Phenomenology for Environmental Design

    Our awareness is limited to what we know until we learn to shift the way we see. Phenomenology creates shifts by contextualising and bracketing experience.

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