Why Do We Push People Away? Understanding our Defenses

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Ritual: Finding the Center in a Turning World

As we confront the turbulence of rapid change, technological dehumanization, and cultural polarization, how do we reconnect to being and meaning? Best-selling author BRUCE FEILER returns us to ritual: world-wide, time-honored ways for people to come home to themselves, their comm ...  Show more

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