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Reepicheep's Call: The Sacred Adventure of Play and Mystery

Reepicheep's Call: The Sacred Adventure of Play and Mystery

No mystery is worth leaving behind, whatever the price.

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The energy of Nature is play. It always plays — it never appears working. Even when the bee works like a bee, it still appears as playing and dancing. The earth rests in the embrace of heaven. It is relaxed. It has nothing better to do than to play. According to Johan Huizinga, the Dutch historian and author of Homo Ludens, the energy of play is the ene…

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