“We can’t have change without loss, which is why so often people say they want change but nonetheless stay exactly the same.”
― Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
― Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
“Everything was real; inconceivably real, infinitely dear. These and all things started as nothing, latent within a vast energy-broth, but then we named them, and loved them, and, in this way, brought them forth. And now we must lose them.”
― Lincoln in the Bardo
― Lincoln in the Bardo
“I notice, once again, that company that’s not the right fit for you is so much lonelier than being happily alone.”
― Last Night
― Last Night
“I always feel: when one person is indebted to another for something very special, that indebtedness should remain a secret between just the two of them.”
― Rilke and Andreas-Salomé: A Love Story in Letters
― Rilke and Andreas-Salomé: A Love Story in Letters
“I don't tell the murky world
to turn pure.
I purify myself
and check my reflection
in the water of the valley brook.”
― Sky Above, Great Wind: The Life and Poetry of Zen Master Ryokan
to turn pure.
I purify myself
and check my reflection
in the water of the valley brook.”
― Sky Above, Great Wind: The Life and Poetry of Zen Master Ryokan
Reading Proust's In Search of Lost Time in 2014
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A reading group for Marcel Proust's "In Search of Lost Time". This group reading adventure will begin on January 1, 2014 and go on through December ...more
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