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Back on the high seas with this book which I must say is quite a relief. The sea is the most important character in this series, in my opinion anyway, the Aubrey/Maturin friendship is the other great delight to me and this book has both in spades.
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Kyabjé Künzang Dorje Rinpoche told me “Vajrayana is not ordinary and so ordinary language cannot be used. Vajrayana is the poetry of existence beyond space and time. Vajrayana is every art and you must be practising every art. If you do not
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“I keep hearing this fucking thing that guns don't kill people, but people kill people. If that's the case, why do we give people guns when they go to war? Why not just send the people?”
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“There are few things as startling as encountering an unearthly glow in the wild. Glow-worms. Ghost mushrooms. Fireflies. Flashlight fish. Lantern sharks. Vampire squid. Our forest floors and ceilings, our ocean depths and fringes are full of luminous beings, creatures lit from the inside. And they have, for many centuries, enchanted us, like glowing missionaries of wonder, emissaries of awe.
Is there anything more beautiful than living light?”
― Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark
Is there anything more beautiful than living light?”
― Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark
“Do you remember the happiest day of your life? What about the saddest? Do you ever wonder if sadness and happiness can be combined, to make a deep purple feeling, not good, not bad, but remarkable simply because you didn't have to live on one side or the other?”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“If for any reason you don't like the word feminist, look for another word. The name is not important as long as the work gets done for yourself and for your sisters in the rest of the world who need it.”
― The Soul of a Woman
― The Soul of a Woman
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