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“Our culture encourages us to plan every moment and fill our schedules with one activity and obligation after the next, with no time to just be. But the human body and mind require downtime to rejuvenate. I have found my greatest moments of joy and peace just sitting in silence, and then I take that joy and peace with me out into the world.”
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“When the mind is truly at peace,
wherever you are is pleasant,
Whether you live in a marketplace
or in a mountain hermitage.”
― The Old Tea Seller: Life and Zen Poetry in 18th Century Kyoto
wherever you are is pleasant,
Whether you live in a marketplace
or in a mountain hermitage.”
― The Old Tea Seller: Life and Zen Poetry in 18th Century Kyoto
“The first ingredient to being wrong is to claim that you are right. Geniuses have a knack for raising new questions. Hence by the public they are either admired for their creativity or, even more commonly so, detested for disturbing the daily peace of mind.”
― Killosophy
― Killosophy
“We are all stardust and stories”
― The Starless Sea
― The Starless Sea
“A house that has a library in it has a soul.”
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Rae’s 2025 Year in Books
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