Anya

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Anya is Currently Reading

Anya is currently reading

Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux

by Thérèse of Lisieux

bookshelves: sp-chr-catholic, sp-all, to-reread, self-edu, currently-reading

read in January 2025

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Anya said: " Jan 2026:
Back to Santa Terezinha, it shall be my new year's tradition. First book of the year :)

"But I really was still something of a baby and had to go through many a storm before I reached the harbor of peace or tasted the fruits of total surren ...more "

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— Dec 29, 2025 12:44PM

Dec 29, 2025 12:03PM · see review

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Gravity and Grace

by Simone Weil

bookshelves: z-eso-mystic, z-eso-all, sp-all, sp-chr-catholic, currently-reading

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Anya said: " 7 years after shelving... Wow. Finally getting around to this.

"Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude." (63) ...more "

Nov 30, 2025 07:03PM · see review

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A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster

by Rebecca Solnit

bookshelves: sp-all, currently-reading

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Anya said: " Detailed accounts of each of the 6 disasters Solnit took upon herself here.

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"For weeks after the big earthquake of 1989, friendship and love counted for a lot, long-term plans and old anxieties for very little. Life was situated in the here and n ...more "

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— Nov 30, 2025 04:35PM

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Anya’s Quotes

“...an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable.”
― Robert Anton Wilson, Cosmic Trigger: Die letzten Geheimnisse der Illuminaten oder An den Grenzen des erweiterten Bewusstseins

tags: metaphysics, philosophy

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“Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.”
― Simone Weil

tags: ethics, evil, good, morality, reality

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“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”
― Anais Nin

tags: courage, life

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“If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.”
― Audre Lorde

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“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.”
― Anaïs Nin

tags: men, women

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