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Halina’s 2025 Year in Books
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Making Space For Haiku
There is a choice for me to make. However, rather than just ‘fixing the problem,’ I feel a need to view it in a context. So I decided to revisit one of those really big questions:
What do I want in life?
It wasn’t difficult to answer (these are some of the benefits of getting old!). I was happy (and not too surprised) to see that most of what I want is already part of my life.
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What do I want in life?
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“Abundance and joy is not something outside of you—it is not something you have to achieve—it is something that is you and which you therefore uncover.”
― Joyful Economy
― Joyful Economy
“An imbalance in our economy is an imbalance in our relationship with the world. As we change, our world changes”
― Joyful Economy
― Joyful Economy
“imagine
Truth no longer the monumental building
Truth imploding
truth becoming wind
spreading the dust
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― The Lightness Of Leaving
Truth no longer the monumental building
Truth imploding
truth becoming wind
spreading the dust
even after it is settled”
― The Lightness Of Leaving
“It isn't by getting out of the world that we become enlightened, but by getting into the world…by getting so tuned in that we can ride the waves of our existence and never get tossed because we become the waves.”
― Kesey's Garage Sale
― Kesey's Garage Sale
“The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss - an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. - is sure to be noticed.”
― The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening
― The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening
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