Exiled to Siberia, by Leo Tolstoy

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Where Love is, There God is also, by Leo Tolstoy

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Purpose

But there is an overarching story, even as we sense there must be. In Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, Frodo learns early on that his life is central to a great drama and a huge challenge that is unfolding. He hears a story that gives direction, purpose, and urgency to his life, and he bows [...]

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Love

Once, as I traveled through the Himalayas, there was a great forest fire. Everyone was frantically trying to fight the fire, but I noticed a group of men standing and looking up into a tree that was about to go up in flames. When I asked them what they were looking at, they pointed up [...]

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