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Anna Elisabeth Solden, who never cried unless she was by herself and sure of being left alone, was crying now...

Word Cloud for Conjugial Love Numbers 57-69: Summary of the Numbers: Swedenborg begins this section by writing "there are countless...

["Down Memory Lane" posts are a new feature of Excerpted Inspirations, where we present a passage from a past or present Swedenborgian...

Dear Friends of Deborah's Tree, Liz Kufs and I have now completed a full year of Excerpted Inspirations. I've chosen the quotes and Liz...

Word Cloud of Conjugial Love Numbers 49-56: Summary of the numbers: This group of passages talk about marriages in heaven and how...

"My father loved the beauty of the world perhaps even more than I do but his love for human beings equaled it. Being both of us great...

Word Cloud of Conjugial Love Numbers 42-48: Summary of the Numbers: This selection from Conjugial Love concludes the topic of "Marriages...

"If you ever read any anthropology, one of the first things you notice is that primal cultures simmer up all their mystery and magic and...

Word Cloud for Conjugial Love Numbers 27-41: Summary of the Numbers: In this section of Conjugial Love the subject of Marriage in Heaven...

"We were making pumpkin pie -- you know, one of those educational projects where you do it from scratch and it only takes five hours and...

Word Cloud for Conjugial Love Numbers 14-26: Summary of the Numbers: In this section, an angel arrives and invites a group of ten...

Word Cloud for Conjugial Love Numbers 1-13: Summary of the Numbers: The beginning of this section, while implying it is all about love,...

"'... Soeur Angélique, leave your work in the sacristy and pray here instead of Mère Madeleine. Do not look so scared, my daughter. It...

[The "Railway Children," Bobbie, Peter, and Phyllis, rescued a boy with a broken leg, and he is now laid up in their home.] "'I say,...

"We know it from experience." Swedenborg tells about hearing some women in heaven responding this way to a group of men talking...

[Marie Killilea wrote two books about her daughter Karen Killilea, who was born with cerebral palsy in the 1940s and overcame both...

[Rose has just received a declaration of love from her cousin Mac, and spoken about what she hoped for in a lover, taking her Uncle Alec...

"She was always demanding too much of people and occasions. She met them with too much expectation, pursued them for perfection, and...

"I think it was Bion who saw it first, but we've all seen it. Timothy will rush out to the big meadow, his once-timid tail waving...

"Everyone took a look, and then Dan showed them the lovely plumage on a moth's wing, the four feathery corners to a hair, the veins on a...