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The Mabinogi: A Book of Essays

by C.W. Sullivan III

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Kris said: " Been dipping into this book for a few years, but I finally decided to sit down and read it cover-to-cover, and take some notes. I'm about halfway through and I am really enjoying it.

This book contains a number of 'famous' essays on the Four Branches ...more "

Apr 12, 2024 12:05PM · see review

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Dictionary of Celtic Mythology

by James MacKillop

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Kris said: " I've been using this book quite a bit for a class I'm teaching. It is a very handy reference.

Although it's title suggests that it only covers mythology, there are good entries on many of the Gaulish and Romano-British deities who we only know from in ...more "

Dec 10, 2019 05:54PM · see review

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The Four Branches of the Mabinogi: Celtic Myth and Medieval Reality

by Will Parker

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Kris said: " I will probably be "currently reading" this book for the rest of my life, as it's essentially a reference book. At 700+ pages, file this under "tome", and be warned the pages are pretty densely packed, at that. Parker's actual translation of the Four ...more "

Dec 07, 2019 02:38PM · see review

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Kris’s Quotes

“Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for—in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.”
― Ellen Goodman

tags: humor, life, materialism, society

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“Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.”
― Lao Tzu

tags: philosophy, taoism

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“Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.”
― George Mac Donald, Wilfrid Cumbermede

tags: leisure, meditation, solitude

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“Prayer is only another name for good, clean, direct thinking. When you pray, think well what you are saying, and make your thoughts into things that are solid. In that manner, your prayer will have strength, and that strength shall become part of you, mind, body, and spirit.”
― Richard Llewellyn, How Green Was My Valley

tags: direct-thinking, prayer, strength, thought

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