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Book cover for The Fire Next Time
To defend oneself against a fear is simply to insure that one will, one day, be conquered by it; fears must be faced.
J.A. Gilmer
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Susan Cheever
“In the morning when I went to school, my father would put on his one good suit and his gray felt hat and ride down in the elevator with the other men on their way to the office. From the lobby he would walk down to the basement, to the windowless storage room that came with our apartment. That was where he worked. There, he hung up the suit and hat and wrote all morning in his boxer shorts, typing away on his portable Underwood set up on a folding table. At lunchtime he would put the suit back on and ride up in the elevator. In”
Susan Cheever, Home Before Dark

Jared Diamond
“The kings and priests of ancient Sumer wanted writing to be used by professional scribes to record numbers of sheep owed in taxes, not by the masses to write poetry and hatch plots.”
Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

Stephen Batchelor
“To integrate contemplative practice into life requires more than becoming proficient in techniques of meditation. It entails the cultivation and refinement of a sensibility about the totality of your existence—from intimate moments of personal anguish to the endless suffering of the world. This sensibility encompasses a range of skills: mindfulness, curiosity, understanding, collectedness, compassion, equanimity, care.”
Stephen Batchelor, The Art of Solitude

Jared Diamond
“Knowledge brings power. Hence writing brings power to modern societies, by making it possible to transmit knowledge with far greater accuracy and in far greater quantity and detail, from more distant lands and more remote times.”
Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

Thomas Merton
“Even though my natural acts are good they have a tendency, when they are only natural, to concentrate my faculties on the man that I am not, the one I cannot be, the false self in me, the character that God does not know. This is because I am born in selfishness. I am born self-centered. And this is original sin.”
Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation

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