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Toshali
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It’s funny: you decide to live in a cabin, and envision yourself smoking a cigar under the open sky, lost in meditation … and you wind up checking off items on supply lists like an army quartermaster. Life comes down to grocery shopping.
“Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough,
A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse - and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness -
And Wilderness is Paradise enow.”
― Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse - and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness -
And Wilderness is Paradise enow.”
― Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
“The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“In his mind he made himself get down off the ledge and go outside to help Dina with her bags, then to see if there was anything his mother needed; he spoke to the maid in complete sentences, and remembered to clean the dust from his own shoes when he came back inside. Naked in the dark, with the memory of the Hand's reptilian eyes, he realized that the ritualized world he had dismissed as feminine was in fact civilization.”
― Alif the Unseen
― Alif the Unseen
“To travel hopefully is better than to have arrived.”
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“The fool is the precursor to the savior.”
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