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“My brother once showed me a piece of quartz that contained, he said, some trapped water older than all the seas in our world. He held it up to my ear. ‘Listen,’ he said, ‘life and no escape.”
― Plainwater: Essays and Poetry
― Plainwater: Essays and Poetry
“Mindfulness has never met a cognition it didn't like.”
― The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being
― The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being
“Life is a fragile hybrid throbbing, at each instant, between being and nothingness.”
― The Book is a Ghost: Thoughts and Paroxysms for Going Beyond
― The Book is a Ghost: Thoughts and Paroxysms for Going Beyond
“Finally, in Bosnia I forgot my own name. That’s an excellent basis for starting this course, I thought. Just as the thought of you is an excellent basis for a start. So as not to forget your name as well, I had to keep writing it down on water. On the Sava River.
I don’t know if you know that forests migrate?”
― Кутија за писање
I don’t know if you know that forests migrate?”
― Кутија за писање
Reading Classics, Chronologically Through the Ages
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This group began with a book called The Well-Educated Mind (TWEM) by Susan Wise Bauer, which is a wonderful guide to “The Great Books.” TWEM presents ...more
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