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“Beauty and art pull reality out of concealment, drawing us away from routine and predictability, breaking patterns and shaking our habitual perceptions. They don’t soothe but confirm reality and reconfigure it. (“Absence of Beauty is like Hell“ )”
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“If we want to reconcile passion with patience, we should treasure endurance, the middle path, allowing weathered engagement with life without burning out or breaking down. Indeed, endurance is a valuable companion. ("The umbrella of our imagination")”
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“Imagination without clarity is fantasy; clarity without imagination is stagnation. Dreaming in the clear sky of our minds makes us live creatively, balancing wonder with wisdom, and inspiration with insight. (“With a dream in the clear sky of her mind”)”
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“Our imagination can be an umbrella that does not stop the rain but allows us to walk through it. Imagination transforms the light in our eyes and shields our inner selves from blindness, letting us inspire creativity and purpose. ( "The umbrella of our imagination")”
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“Living well is not merely choosing lightness or weightiness but holding them skillfully in tension. Let us sustain what is meaningful, and release what is deadening, and let us walk the tightrope of life with both grace and groundedness. (“The unbearable heaviness of being")”
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Nhu-Mai’s 2024 Year in Books
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