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“We search for happiness everywhere, but we are like Tolstoy's fabled beggar who spent his life sitting on a pot of gold, under him the whole time. Your treasure--your perfection--is within you already. But to claim it, you must leave the buy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the ego and enter into the silence of the heart.”
― Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything
― Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything
“You are, after all, what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.”
― Eat, Pray, Love
― Eat, Pray, Love
“If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.”
― Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney
― Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney
“Prayer is a relationship; half the job is mine. If I want transformation, but can't even be bothered to articulate what, exactly, I'm aiming for, how will it ever occur? Half the benefit of prayer is in the asking itself, in the offering of a clearly posed and well-considered intention. If you don't have this, all your pleas and desires are boneless, floppy, inert; they swirl at your feet in a cold fog and never lift.”
― Eat, Pray, Love
― Eat, Pray, Love
All Kinds of Books
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We read all different kinds of books. This is a place to come, suggest a book to read, and then discuss it. Come join in the fun! If there is some ...more
Deanna’s 2025 Year in Books
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