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Sierra is Currently Reading

Sierra is currently reading

Blessed Water (Sister Holiday Mystery #2)

by Margot Douaihy (Goodreads Author)

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Jan 28, 2025 07:13AM

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Tara The Feminine Divine

by Bokar Rinpoche

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Jan 11, 2025 03:53PM

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Lady Clementine

by Marie Benedict (Goodreads Author)

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Sierra’s Quotes

“It is our own flaws that we are least ready to forgive in others.”
― Jan-Philipp Sendker, A Well-Tempered Heart

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“She hoped that Tin Win would learn what she had learned over the years: that there are wounds time does not heal, though it can reduce them to a manageable size.”
― Jan-Philipp Sendker, The Art of Hearing Heartbeats

tags: healing, life, pain

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“He expected nothing more from life. Not because he was disappointed or embittered. He expected nothing because there was nothing of importance that he had not already experienced. He possessed all the happiness that a person could find. He loved and was loved. Unconditionally.”
― jan-philipp sendker

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“The essence of a thing is invisible to the eye, U May said. Learn to perceive the essence of a thing. Eyes are more likely to hinder you in that regard. They distract us. We love to be dazzled.”
― Jan-Philipp Sendker, The Art of Hearing Heartbeats

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“Has never liked the feeling of losing control. He’s come to realize over the years that it’s this very feeling that normal folk like and strive for, but as far as Ove is concerned only a complete bloody airhead could find loss of control a state worth aiming for. He wonders if he’ll feel nauseated, if he’ll feel pain”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

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