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I'm really interested in reading about water and the western US. I read "Water to the Angels: William Mulholland, His Monumental Aqueduct and the Rise of Los Angeles" a couple of years ago and and am intrigued by western water politics and technology
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Ecuador has been a place I've wanted to visit for some time. Now, after a year of home-sequestering and travel-dreaming, I'm starting to plan again. Ms. Pitts' book has been a wonderful and engaging read - actually, the way I read travel guides is in
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“I was more concerned with refining my sense of the sheer mysteriousness of life so that it infused each moment of my waking existence, thereby serving as a ground from which to respond more openly and vitally to whatever occurred.”
― Confession of a Buddhist Atheist
― Confession of a Buddhist Atheist
“In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the People.”
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“For me, Buddhism is like a living organism. If it is to flourish outside self-enclosed ghettos of believers, it will have to meet the challenge of understanding, interacting with, and adapting to an environment that is strikingly different from those in which it has evolved.”
― Confession of a Buddhist Atheist
― Confession of a Buddhist Atheist
“By emphasizing doubt rather than belief, perplexity rather than certainty, and questions rather than answers, Zen practice granted me the freedom to imagine.”
― Confession of a Buddhist Atheist
― Confession of a Buddhist Atheist
“Buddhism has become for me a philosophy of action and responsibility. It provides a framework of values, ideas, and practices that nurture my ability to create a path in life, to define myself as a person, to act, to take risks, to image things differently, to make art. The more I prize Gotama's teachings free from the matrix of Indian religious thought in which they are entrenched and the more I come to understand how his own life unfolded in the context of his times, the more I discern a template for living that I can apply at this time in this increasingly secular and globalized world.”
― Confession of a Buddhist Atheist
― Confession of a Buddhist Atheist
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