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The atmosphere in our home was often one of open or suppressed emotional conflict between the parents, mutually disappointed expectations and profound anxieties we were not even aware of.
“When I try to picture for myself what a happy life might look like, the picture hasn't changed very much since I was a child - a house with flowers and trees around it, and a river nearby, and a room full of books, and someone there to love me, that's all. Just to make a home there, and to care for my parents when they grow older. Never to move, never to board a plane again, just to live quietly and then be buried in the earth.”
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
“What if the meaning of life on earth is not eternal progress toward some unspecified goal—the engineering and production of more and more powerful technologies, the development of more and more complex and abstruse cultural forms? What if these things just rise and recede naturally, like tides, while the meaning of life remains the same always—just to live and be with other people?”
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
“indulging others’ harmful behavior is what many Buddhist teachers call “idiot compassion.” If anything, true, not-idiot compassion should afford you more energy to make the necessary boundaries and changes.”
― Open: One Woman's Journey Through Love and Polyamory
― Open: One Woman's Journey Through Love and Polyamory
“The Arctic tern has the longest migration of any animal. It flies from the Arctic all the way to the Antarctic, and then back again within a year. This is an extraordinarily long flight for a bird its size. And because the terns live to be thirty or so, the distance they will travel over the course of their lives is the equivalent of flying to the moon and back three times.”
― Migrations
― Migrations
“The extent to which people will defy nature to serve culture can be truly horrifying.”
― The Way of Integrity: Finding the Path to Your True Self
― The Way of Integrity: Finding the Path to Your True Self
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