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Vision in Spring
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Penelope Evans Penelope Evans said: " Very in tune with nature. A lovely read including classical poetry. "

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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

 
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Penelope Evans Penelope Evans said: " 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...
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Flann O'Brien
“I saw that my witticism was unperceived and quietly replaced it in the treasury of my mind.”
Flann O'Brien, At Swim-Two-Birds

Flann O'Brien
“Strange enlightenments are vouchsafed to those who seek the higher places.”
Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman

Haruki Murakami
“And you really will have to make it through that violent, metaphysical, symbolic storm. No matter how metaphysical or symbolic it might be, make no mistake about it: it will cut through flesh like a thousand razor blades. People will bleed there, and you will bleed too. Hot, red blood. You'll catch that blood in your hands, your own blood and the blood of others. And once the storm is over you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about.”
Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
tags: fate

Dag Hammarskjöld
“When you have reached the point where you no longer expect a response, you will at last be able to give in such a way that the other is able to receive, and be grateful. When Love has matured and, through a dissolution of the self into light, become a radiance, then shall the Lover be liberated from dependence upon the Beloved, and the Beloved also be made perfect by being liberated from the Lover.”
Dag Hammarskjöld, Markings

Adrienne Rich
“The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.”
Adrienne Rich, On Lies, Secrets, and Silence. Selected Prose 1966-1978

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