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"Amidst all the political turmoil and news today, I find this book to be a refreshing note on nature and mindfulness." — Jan 30, 2023 10:34AM
"Amidst all the political turmoil and news today, I find this book to be a refreshing note on nature and mindfulness." — Jan 30, 2023 10:34AM
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Penelope Evans said:
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not as poetic as i thought it would be... definately more detailed than today's political speeches... need to catch up on my history... doesn't have a lot of sweeping generalizations... lot of facts... ...more "
“since feeling is first
who pays any attention
to the syntax of things
will never wholly kiss you;
wholly to be a fool
while Spring is in the world
my blood approves,
and kisses are a far better fate
than wisdom
lady i swear by all flowers. Don't cry
--the best gesture of my brain is less than
your eyelids' flutter which says
we are for eachother: then
laugh, leaning back in my arms
for life's not a paragraph
And death i think is no parenthesis”
―
who pays any attention
to the syntax of things
will never wholly kiss you;
wholly to be a fool
while Spring is in the world
my blood approves,
and kisses are a far better fate
than wisdom
lady i swear by all flowers. Don't cry
--the best gesture of my brain is less than
your eyelids' flutter which says
we are for eachother: then
laugh, leaning back in my arms
for life's not a paragraph
And death i think is no parenthesis”
―
“The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.”
― On Lies, Secrets, and Silence. Selected Prose 1966-1978
― On Lies, Secrets, and Silence. Selected Prose 1966-1978
“Strange enlightenments are vouchsafed to those who seek the higher places.”
― The Third Policeman
― The Third Policeman
“At every moment you choose yourself. But do you choose *your* self? Body and soul contain a thousand possibilities out of which you can build many I's. But in one of them is there a congruence of the elector and the elected. Only one--which you will never find until you have excluded all those superficial and fleeting possibilities of being and doing with which you toy, out of curiosity or wonder or greed, and which hinder you from casting anchor in the experience of the mystery of life, and the consciousness of the talent entrusted to you which is your *I*.”
― Markings
― Markings
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