“The closer you get to real matter, rock air fire and wood, boy, the more spiritual the world is.”
― The Dharma Bums
― The Dharma Bums
“I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The woods do that to you, they always look familiar, long lost, like the face of a long-dead relative, like an old dream, like a piece of forgotten song drifting across the water, most of all like golden eternities of past childhood or past manhood and all the living and the dying and the heartbreak that went on a million years ago and the clouds as they pass overhead seem to testify (by their own lonesome familiarity) to this feeling.”
― The Dharma Bums
― The Dharma Bums
“Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.”
― The Dharma Bums
― The Dharma Bums
“Where the stars nodded on trees”
― The Dharma Bums
― The Dharma Bums
Akshara’s 2025 Year in Books
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